The Wizard of Oz (1939) is everyones much-loved favorite, perennial pipe dream video play from MGM through it is golden years. For many seasons, it absolutely was shown repeatedly on network TV as being a perfect occasion occasion (its first a couple showings were on CBS television set on November 3, 1956 in addition to within December, 1959) after which it every year to get Thanksgiving, Christmas and/or Easter time. It shortly evolved into a common institution, as well as a rite of passing for everyone, along with probably have been witnessed by extra individuals as compared with another action graphic over a number of decades. Initially, however, the picture was not from the commercial perspective profitable (at $3 million), nevertheless it turned out vitally acclaimed.
All involving its images (the Yellow Brick Road, the Kansas twister), characters (e.g., Auntie Em, Toto, Dorothy, this Wicked Witch), interview (e.g., "Lions and also tigers and bears, oh yea my!", "We're possibly not in Kansas anymore," "Follow the Yellow Brick Road," as well as that film's last line: "There's very little place for instance home"), as well as songs ("Over your Rainbow") are becoming indelibly remembered, as well as the classic roll film has become priviledged having a multitude of books, TV shows (such as HBO's dramatic prison series Oz), personal references in other films, and perhaps through pop groups (singer Elton John along with his Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road album, or perhaps Pink Floyd's 1973 album Dark Side in the Moon).
The film's piece is very easily condensed: lonely plus unfortunate Kansas farmgirl Dorothy goals of any superior place, not having torment alongside her dog Toto from your hateful neighbor spinster, and so the lady ideas to perform away. During a competitive tornado, she is struck around the head and also transferred with a land 'beyond the rainbow' where the girl complies with wonderful characters from her Kansas existence transformed inside of the woman's other than conscious dream state. After trip straight down a Yellow Brick Road towards the Land with Oz, along with the defeat on the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy in addition to your girlfriend pals tend to be compensated with the Wizard of Oz using their hearts' wishes - in addition to Dorothy is usually made possible to go back house to help Kansas.
All in the highlighted celebrities and performers - Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Margaret Hamilton, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Charley Grapewin in addition to Clara Blandick - had successful, prolonged movie professions just before and following film, but that video may be the one just about all are becoming most widely known for, plus in certain cases, really the only roll film they are loved for. Garland's career was overshadowed by means of that film, despite appearing with many classic videos in addition to musicals, including those for which she obtained Oscar nominations (A Star is Born (1954) as well as Judgment within Nuremberg (1961).) This has been the actual only roll film for which your lover acquired an Oscar, albeit a strong honorary special merit for her "outstanding performance as being a screen juvenile." (Garland had just concluded the prosperous strike films Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) along with Babes throughout Arms (1939) with Mickey Rooney.)
The well-known film seemed to be brilliantly adapted out of L. Frank Baum's venerated kid's guide The Wonderful Wizard associated with Oz (written within 1899 plus shared around 1900) by three paid internet writers Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and also E.A. Woolf, including a workforce of numerous uncredited scriptwriters (including Arthur Freed, Herman Mankiewicz, Sid Silvers, and Ogden Nash). Langley was adament the fact that fantastical heroes have real-life counterparts in making all of them additional believable, when they had also existed inside the 1925 hushed picture version.
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