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At the age of 9, she starred as Dorothy Gale in the 1910 short film The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. At the age of 14, she was hired by comedy producer Hal Roach at $5 per day to star with Roach's star comedian Harold Lloyd in a series of one-reel comedies, starting with the 1915 film Giving Them Fits.
Bebe Virginia Daniels (January 14, 1901 - March 16, 1971) was the English actress who, at the age of nine, played Dorothy Gale in the 1910 film version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Daniels began her stage career at the age of four, in a production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Directed by Otis Turner. With Bebe Daniels, Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer, Robert Z. Leonard. An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
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- Adventure, Fantasy, Short
- Otis Turner
- 1910-03-24
Plot. Dorothy Gale (Bebe Daniels) and Imogene the Cow are chased by Hank the Mule. Dorothy runs to the cornfield and discovers that the family Scarecrow (Robert Leonard) is alive. They realize a cyclone is approaching, so they all hide in a haystack.
Starring: Bebe Daniels, Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer. Release: 3/1910 Duration: 14'. The first film adaptation of the Wizard of Oz story, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel. Click here to watch the film IMDB.
Dorothy (Bebe Daniels) befriends the animated Scarecrow prior to her departure via cyclone, and is accompanied on the voyage not only by the Scarecrow and Toto, but some of the livestock from the family farm: a cow and donkey.
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"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a 1910 American silent fantasy film and the earliest surviving film version of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wiza...
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