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One of his early roles was uncredited as a Munchkin city father in The Wizard of Oz (1939). He featured as part of the circus troupe in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942). He also appeared in Superman and the Mole Men (1951), a B-Picture intended as the pilot for the Adventures of Superman TV series.
Jun 17, 2024 · EW has gathered 19 rare images from The Wizard of Oz, from the casting process to production to the film's blockbuster release in 1939.
Curtis' big movie season was 1938-39: he was cast in The Wizard of Oz (1939) (albeit with voice dubbed by Pinto Colvig) and as the cowboy hero of the all-dwarf western The Terror of Tiny Town (1938). This last epic was one of the few instances that Curtis was cast as a good guy; many of his screen characters were ill-tempered and pugnacious ...
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Mar 13, 1988 · “The ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland (Francis Gumm) in 1939 MGM film ‘The Wizard of Oz.”’. Carl Scheele, the now-retired veteran Smithsonian curator who acquired the slippers in 1979,...
The Judy Room Spotlight on the story and making of the 1939 MGM masterpiece The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland.
Many of the actors in Tinytown were part of a performing troupe called Singer's Midgets, who also played Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz, released in 1939. He also had a starring role in American International Pictures' 1973 release, Little Cigars, about a gang of "midgets" on a crime spree.
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Curtis' big movie season was 1938-39: he was cast in The Wizard of Oz (1939) (albeit with voice dubbed by Pinto Colvig) and as the cowboy hero of the all-dwarf western The Terror of Tiny Town (1938). This last epic was one of the few instances that Curtis was cast as a good guy; many of his screen characters were ill-tempered and pugnacious ...