- Release Date: 1990
- Runtime: 52 min
- Genre: Documentary
- Starring: Angela Lansbury, Harold Arlen, Robert A. Baum, Ray Bolger ... see all
- Director: Jack Haley Jr.
- Plot: Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of the film.
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| May 11, 2000Washington Post
Like most of us born in the second half of the 20th century, I discovered--and fell in love with--the classic film before the book.....There's nothing wrong with the movie, either.....It's the elegant draftsmanship of William Wallace Denslow, whose wry, black-and-white line drawings (a large number of which are on view here, courtesy of the New York Public Library) served as the basis for the indelible Technicolor characters....not only the cottage industry of 40-some sequels (most of which weren't even wri ... Full Review
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The Great and Powerful 'Oz'
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2009-05-11
How L. Frank Baum Discovered t he Great American Story By Evan I. Schwartz Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 374 pp. $28 Everybody loves the 1939 MGM "Wizard of Oz," but for some aficionados of L. ... Full Article
Marvel Comics' Adaptation of the L. Frank Baum Classic Continues If you have not yet seen Marvel Comic's Wonderful Wizard of Oz , you are missing what may very well prove to be one of the finest novel to comic... ... Full Article

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