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By JULIE SWINDELL
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
There's no place like Oz.
Never in the history of motion pictures
has a single film endured in the heights
like the 1939 "The Wiiard of Oz" has,
capturing its audiences again and again
through dazzling fantasy entwined with
sublime youth. And you can see it this
weekend in 108 Forum.
There's never been a year quite I ike
1939, at least not on those studio lots of
Hollywood. Not only were the pictures
unique in their quality but also for their
breadth of style and subjects.
There were outstanding films of every
kind. Included in the extraordinary
range are "Gone With The Wind,"
"Wuthering Heights," "Stagecoach,"
"Gunga Din," "Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips,"
"Ninotchka," "Only Angels Have
Wings" and "Dark Victory."
But "The Wizard of Oz" tops them all.
The very idea of making a musical out of
L. Frank Baum's classic was brilliantly
inspiring, much like Disney's use of
"Snow White" for his first feature-length
cartoon. It has become a keepsake in our
hearts, regarded as a rare achievement
that has already proven that
timelessness is indeed possible.
The delightful fantasy begins in black
and white in a bitterly real America of
stern faces and vast plains. Dorothy is
swirled from this place to a Technicolor
dreamland "somewhere over the
rainbow." There, she avoids danger,
overcomes ' enemies, ' including the
Wicked Witch of the , West, and finds
loving friends in the Scarecrow, Lion
and Tinman. Well, enough of this fid
dledeedee. You know the story. But
perhaps there are some things about his
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Oz once again
classic movie you don't know.
There's always an amusing curiosity
about the Munchkins, so I'll start there.
Director Victor Fleming wanted 350
midgets for the Munchkinland sequence,
so he contacted Leo Singer ( who was
full-grown), of the * Singer Midgets.
However, Singer could only provide 150
little ones and Major Doyle, a midget
monologist, was hired to gather together
the rest.
Doyle, though, refused to work with
Singer's professional midgets and since
Fleming required so many, Doyle set off
on a nation-wide task of gathering
together the entire bunch. With three
busloads of midgets bound for
California, "Major Doyle's Revenge"
was staged. As" Leo Singer looked out his
office window, . he • was saluted by a
hundred midgets sticking their bare
behinds out the bus windows.
Most people know that MGM
originally wanted Shirley Temple (then
at the top in box office ratings) in the
role of Dorothy. The movie would have
been drastically different. The sup
porting characters could never possibly
have related to curly Shirley in the
manner they did with Judy Garland. The
film would have perhaps been a
variation on the typical Temple movies
of the day.
Frank Morgan, the kind and scat
terbrained Wizard, was not even third
choice for the role. Ed Wynn, then a
popular radio star, turned down the part,
thinking it somewhat unimpressive. W.
C. Fields refused the role because
$75,000 was a bit less than what he had in
mind. Morgan begged for the role, knew
the script before it was even his and
proved himself a marvelous humbug.
Ray Bolger, the beloved Scarecrow
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who will always be the symbol of true
friendship for me, was first cast as the
Tinman and Buddy Ebsen was the
Scarecrow. Bolger was constantly
drooling for the part and finally the
studio realized his heart was truly in it
and he and Ebsen switched roles. Ebsen
didn't object . . . he was simply excited
to be a part of such a promising project.
He wasn't part of it for long. After two
weeks he was in the hospital with lead
poisoning in his lungs, a result of the
Tinman costume. It was then that Jack
Haley was called in.
Margaret Hamilton has made count
less pictures, but shall . forever be
associated as the Wicked Witch who
(along with those ugly winged monkeys
of hers) terrified most of us in our
younger years. She remembers her first
acting experience at the age of six, when
she played Sleeping Beauty in a school
play. She admits that was the very last
time she ever played a beauty. '
The' Cowardly Lion was written for
Bert Lahr, or maybe it's the other way
around. Well, that's hbw perfect the suit
fit (and that suit was 70 pounds). Lahr's
performance is one of the most
delightful of all-time on the screen.
Without consulting the director, he ad
libed quite a few lines like, "Unusual
weather we're having, ain't it?" when
the four comrades are stranded in the
snowy poppy field just befiire reaching
the Emerald City.
Children and adults who go to see "The
Wizard of Oz" year after year never
seem to tire of it. How to account for this
timeless appeal? There is no way ex
cept, to say that like all escapist fan
tasies, it is, somehow, "right."
And I don't believe it's a dream. Not
for a minute.
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