The Wizard of Oz and the Dark Side of Hollywood
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“The dark side of Hollywood” implies the existence of a good side of Hollywood
We all know there is no good side
The good side is all the movies that we enjoy watching, like Dark Knight and Infinity Wars. (although there's a lot of movies that come out that are complete turds)
Keanu Reeves
*recieves le reddit gold*
Of course there's a good side, but people are so addicted to bad that they ignore it.
@@MaskedMan66 you are in literally every comment acting like a complete bozo i encourage you to please get help
Ironic how a film about exposing the man behind the curtain ultimately loses its magic once you look behind its own curtains.
Behind closed curtains
Just like Hollywood. 😃
Also just like a company with a similar motto, Disney
It adds to the brilliance of the film somehow
Just like Toy Story 2's famous line, "you can't rush art".
I always knew that Hollywood in general was horrible and they treat their celebrities, but this was even horrible than I thought.
This video is a sensationalist diatribe, full of exaggerations and lies.
@@MaskedMan66 no, i don't think so
@@samuelaviles824 I do, especially having read the authoritative books "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz (who interviewed 48 people who worked on the movie, actors and behind-the-scenes personnel alike), "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman, and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
@@MaskedMan66 tl;dr
@@FlakyMusic It was one short paragraph. Don't be cowardly.
Margaret Hamilton
Almost getting burned alive, had her skin almost permanently green, and was put in a hospital for days, and still put on a stellar performance.
WHAT A BEAST!
She got second degree burns on her face and third degree burns on her right hand; the rest of her was okay. Her skin bore traces of green for a just few weeks; in later years, she liked talking about having had to assure people that she wasn't feeling ill. 🙂 Also, she recovered at home, not in a hospital. The studio doctor had already administered treatment on the set, and her personal physician looked after her from then onward. But yes, Miss Hamilton was a tough lady, one of the real troupers.
The fact is that she loved playing the Wicked Witch because it was so different from the roles she usually played, of which Miss Gulch was an example. After the movie, she reprised the role on stage and on T.V. many times.
@@MaskedMan66 wrong
@@acacia8261 Historically verified, Mr. Goldman.
@@MaskedMan66 wrong
I’m surprised you also didn’t mention how ruthlessly bullied Judy was by all her other co-stars and actors. Big egos who couldn’t accept a “little girl” being the main star, so they’d treat her like shit. The only person on set who was nice to her, the only friend she made, was ironically the one who played the witch.
Life was so near impossible for the miserable and unlucky Judy.
yeah big egos, 100 degrees Fahrenheit sets, unbearable costumes. no wonder they are ticked of to a girl who had no other painful costume. its just sad
*couldn't accept
@@nicmagtaan1132 Yeah I have to imagine that's part of it. She's the star, she's young and unlike everyone else she's not in a painful costume.
@@nicmagtaan1132 yea I agree. Its not right but it's understandable frustration.
The entire time I was like “This can’t get any worse right?” And then it got worse
I kept on thinking of TF2.
"There's more.."
"No..."
"Okay it can't get any worse, right? I mean they pretty much turned the broom into a homemade pipe bomb and made her ride on it before it exploded"
Emp : "it's thought this was caused by covering the pipe with asbestos, which was also used in the snow for one of the scenes"
For real
Bear in mind that (a) moviemaking has always been a tough business and (b) much of what's in this video has been exaggerated to insane degrees. Some of the info here is false.
@@MaskedMan66 stop
Shortly after watching this, I was given a school assignment to write about how drugs affected the life of a celebrity and how they got on the drug. I did Judy Garland inspired by the video and while everyone else did mostly rappers, everyone who asked me who I was doing would not know who she played. After looking deeper into her life, it somehow is even more tragic than shown here. I feel really bad for her
Judy was not under any requirements for meds when she made this movie.
@Jacqueline Davis Why are you so hostile to the truth? You'd think people would be glad to know that all the guff about Judy being victimized on this picture is not true.
By the way, "eat grass" means "take a bribe."
Especially since she was sexually harassed by the actors who played the Munchkins (thank Garland's ex-husband Sid Luft for the information).
Yeah
@@garrtoons4303 good god thats... i had no idea that even happened.
This video makes me so grateful that Macaulay Culkin is doing really well these days. He seems like he and his wife have been able to keep a relatively low profile in the popular media and raise their kid and being able to see him joking along with Red Letter Media makes me really happy. I’m really glad he seems to be recovering
i only know he did an ad with google calling back home alone
@@MsZsc And it was awesome. I hope one day Macaulay Culkin stars in a mainstream film.
@@alienboy1322 The _Home Alone_ movies were mainstream.
@@MaskedMan66
By that, I mean now. As an adult.
@@alienboy1322 He doesn't seem much interested in acting these days apart from the occasional cameo.
"Don't have to worry about a downward spiral if we're already at the bottom."
-Hollywood, probably
-Hollywood, definitely
-Hollywood, guaranteedly
There is no bottom, only the infinite void of the downward spiral.
@@gmann215 facts. true rock bottom is 8x6 down in the Earth....
And with the current trends, they're practically pioneers in reaching its bottom
*Trivial Fact:* The Wizard of Oz book was originally titled as "The Emerald City" but the publishers, who are superstitious, believed that the emerald was a sign of bad luck so they asked Frank to change it. Baum found the name for the fair country drawer on the cabinet file that was named "O - Z". He also named the protagonist Dorothy Gale after his niece who died while writing a book.
Why is the Emerald considered unlucky?
Fun fact 3: the wizard of oz story is thought to originally be populist propaganda. The emerald city being a metaphor for big industrial cities like NYC. The tin man being a metaphor for a factory worker, the scarecrow being a metaphor for the farmers that couldnt make enough money to support themselves, and the lion being a metaphor for the democratic presidential cantidate William Jennings Brian who could have brought the populist movement to the white house if he was fully committed.
@@dylana0032 sounding like my English Teacher rn
@@dylana0032 and Death Grips also caused the Ariana Grande bombing
I find it kinda funny, because my high school marching band was named “The Emerald Aliance”. The year before I joined they did a show called “Wicked” about the Wicked Witch of the West. Just an interesting coincidence.
I love how at 19:45, he starts playing a version of “Any Color You Like” from Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon,” an album which was rumored to be perfectly synced as a secondary soundtrack to the Wizard of Oz. I also love that he put a rainbow over a triangle shaped object, a nice little nod to the album’s cover art. Good stuff!
The "triangle shaped object" is a prism; if light is refracted through a prism, you get a rainbow.
I noticed that easter egg in the video too! Glad I'm not the only one to notice it
@@MaskedMan66 the "triangle shaped object" is a pyramid lol
@@magic9080 It's a prism; dig the refracted light.
@@MaskedMan66 they were referring to the triangle shaped object at 19:45
The second I heard that the snow was asbestos, I knew for a fact that everything was fucked
The snow was crushed gypsum.
@@MaskedMan66 Source?
@@samielware1846 The book "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Jay Scarfone and William Stillman, two of the world's leading experts on Oz in general and this movie in particular..
Dont forget that in one take Judy wouldn't stop giggling and ruining the take, this made the director get up from his chair and slapped her hard to make her stop and continued rolling
So not only mental abuse, feeding her drugs, lots of bullying by her co-actors, but also some of that nice physical abuse from the director?
Nice.
Bruh
@@Jeremy-se1kp Going back to the classics
He was probably mad because film is expensive so you only get so many takes.
@@cookieface80 Are you attempting to justify a grown man physically assaulting a young girl because she was laughing?
Margaret Hamilton, when not playing one of the scariest villains of your childhood, was an elementary school teacher. Take that however you will.
I'm guess not one of her students ever missed an assignment.
She also taught Sunday School. :-)
Reading this makes me really sad
@@Gelbton Why?
It’s usually the bad guys who are the nice ones in reality & visa versa…
Its really sad that the horrifying details about The Wizard of Oz are often presented as quirky movie trivia or fun facts like... "did you know the actor that played the TinMan was allergic to the makeup?? Did you know the wicked witch was accidentally set on fire" instead of the negligent maiming/injury that it actually was.
They were nothing but accidents, like millions that happen every day. Ebsen wasn't allergic to the aluminum powder, he had a bronchial condition that was aggravated by it. Nobody got maimed either.
@@MaskedMan66 Cope harder. Maybe they were accidents, but you dont have that many 'accidents' in one movie filming without gross negligence
@@JJLarge Yes, you do. Just as you have accidents (no need for quotation marks; they were genuinely accidents) every day in every industry in every walk of life. The nature of an accident is that it happens no matter how many measures have been taken.
Was there "gross negligence" involved when Olivia Jackson lost her left arm filming a traffic chase scene in _Resident Evil: The Final Chapter?_ Or when David Holmes became paralyzed due to an accident while filming a Quiddich match for _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two?"_ Or were they just the victims of accidents?
In none of those three movies was anyone out to get the people who were injured.
@@MaskedMan66 the idea is that you're supposed to plan ahead to minimize accidents. yeah, those movies you mentioned had accidents that resulted in harm, but the Wizard of Oz had so many that it was clear no one took even the slightest time to think about how to minimize the accidents.
the clearest examples of this are the fact that:
1. the makeup for the first tin man was a powder, while the second was a paste. that's something they should've thought through ahead of time or changed immediately when the first tinman started getting sick.
2. when the witch caught fire, once she had recovered enough to return to work, they immediately were going to put her into a pyrotechnic stunt that then ALSO went wrong. you'd think they would triple-check it to ensure safety or cancel the thing entirely, but they didn't.
Sure, these things were "accidents," but they were preventable if production had given any thought to them.
@@piequals314 1. Actors (and everyday people) have been wearing powder as a component in make-up for centuries. Buddy Ebsen's make-up was white greasepaint dusted with aluminum powder, a process that had been tested and declared effective. Nobody had any way of knowing what would happen. Jack Haley's make-up, the aluminum paste, caused him no more problems than anyone can expect from having one's pores closed up, something that still happens with prosthetic make-up today. They just deal with it.
2. Margaret Hamilton (learn people's names if you're going to be talking about them) was not going to be given another "pyrotechnic stunt" upon returning to work because it was understood between her, Mervyn LeRoy, and Victor Fleming that she wasn't going to do anything involving fire. And how do you know they didn't check out the rig before Betty Danko sat on it? But the nature of an accident is that it can happen no matter how many precautions are taken.
Shame on you for dismissing Olivia Jackson's severed arm and David Holmes's paralysis. They will have to deal with those for the rest of their lives. The people who were injured in _Wizard_ recovered and got on with their lives. Would that their self-appointed gatekeepers would do the same.
The child actress whom Judy Garland cited as an influence, Baby Peggy, also bore the brunt of Hollywood's dark and seedy side. Reading her memoirs about how her parents especially her dad turned her into a cross between a wind-up doll and a golden goose and how she witnessed and experienced abuse on set was a harrowing tale in itself.
"Actors are temporary, we only remember the characters they portray."
John Wayne: Hold my pilgrim!
Yep. Likewise, there are plenty of artists who's names eclipse even their works. I mean, can you name EVERY work of DaVinci, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, etc.? There are certain ultra famous ones that put the artist in the collective vernacular, but ultimately the person is just as if not occasionally more famous than the work of art. Same goes for Walt Disney, Tezuka, Stan Lee, Jim Henson... Being a creator or artist doesn't mean you're dooming yourself to be wholly eclipsed by your works if they are successful.
I get that Emp is trying to play big-brain/existentialist (as he often does), but as is often the case it's a narrowminded/newbie perspective on the topics.
Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?
I think that is more so because John always played the same character
kid 50 years in the future: who tf is John Wayne? Reminds me a bit of Bruce Willis.
@@Artman2004 Who said that?
Most people ask why the Simpsons are green, but nobody asks why Hollywood is dark.
De-regulation and limitations of technology
socity
@@trolledfrog6789 ☝️ this 😥😥😓😓😢😢😢😭😰😰
The memetic flow of information has surpassed the need for such questions. It's not your job to ask questions J. Only to create context.
Capitalism. Of course.
I can't believe that such an iconic movie has such a dark backstory, the actors spent so much in pure misery, and poor Judy Garland was both abused and ridiculed by everyone. However could I look at this movie the same way knowing in the back of my mind that the actors had a hard time doing the movie.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. It wasn't "dark," just difficult, like any movie. Actors are tough (or at least they were back then), and the ones in this movie could have told you about the real misery of vaudeville and just trying to make it in the biz. Judy was neither abused nor ridiculed by anyone involved in the making of "Wizard"; cast and crew alike were all impressed by her for her talent and sharp wit; bottom line, she was impossible not to like. And of course they had a hard time making the movie-- any actors on any movie did, and most still do.
@@MaskedMan66 It was bad conditions. Was it ok for her to eat so little? Was it ok for someone to wear a 100 pound costume? Was it ok to be blown up and be set on fire?
@@gmdrandom6287 Judy ate enough to keep body and soul together; she was not starved.
Bert Lahr's Lion suit weighed 70 pounds, which was quite enough for him, thank you. Actors have worn much heavier costumes than that, and still do.
Nobody intended to blow anybody up or set them on fire-- with the obvious exception of when the WWW sets the Scarecrow's arm alight, and that went without a hitch. Accidents happen; welcome to the world.
@@MaskedMan66 I've seen you make a lot of replies and refuting claims to people on this video and I'm curious about the sources of your information.
@@jackfinster I'm happy to oblige. The three main authoritative books on the subject are “The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman, and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
Other books which contain useful bits of information include "The Oz Scrapbook" (1977) by David L. Greene and Dick Martin, and "The World of Oz" (1985) by Allen Eyles.
I hope that proves useful to you. :-)
Buddy Ebsen didn't really miss out in the role of a lifetime. He had other movie roles such as Audrey Hepburn's husband in Breakfast at Tiffany's. He then went on to have a great career in television. First, as Jed Clampett in the most viewed show on television at the time, the Beverly Hiillbillies and then as the lead character in Barnaby Jones.
Granted, but he did regret having to leave the movie. It was hopefully some small consolation that his voice is still on the soundtrack.
Fun Fact 1: Some years after the movie, Ebsen appeared in a stage version of _Wizard_ as the Scarecrow!
Fun Fact 2: In the feature film version of _The Beverly Hillbillies,_ which starred Jim Varney as Jed, Ebsen had a cameo-- as Barnaby Jones!
i already know about fact #2 captain obvious. 🙄
@@robroy6374 It's nothing to do with you, total stranger I've never encountered before.
@@MaskedMan66 irrelevant to my comment sensitive vagrant I've never encountered before.
It's unfortunate that this film's groundbreaking achievements were born from some of the most harsh labor problems, conditions, and hazards to happen in the industry.
History repeats itself. The comparison to the pyramids at the end is spot on.
@@co2_os the cost of progress is often brutal
Whenever something revolutionary happens, someone has to get hurt. It’s very sad though.
Compared to some movies, before and since, this was a walk in the park.
@Caleb OKAY Of course they used real guns; they still do. The secret is that they fire blanks.
You recieve: Physical and mental scars that you will never forget.
I recieve: The most watched film of all time
Margaret Hamilton, who, as everyone knows, got burned while making the movie, adored the finished product, and never dwelled on her scars.
@@MaskedMan66 Damn it's almost like Alzheimers makes it hard to dwell on anything
@@dantethewanderer4989 I'm talking about before she got Alzheimer's.
@@dantethewanderer4989 hahahah
@@dantethewanderer4989 brooooooooo
I'm related to Margaret Hamilton and I was told it was lead paint. She had to hire someone to feed her bread when she went on break during the filming of, "The Wizard of Oz." Thank you so much for this video documentary EmpLemon. It's really sad to hear not that much has changed in the movie industry now going after U.S. veterans and special access programs through the D.O.D. for their content. "You never know when the next big block buster you see in theater was inspired by the Pentagon, or cia."
You were misinformed. Her make-up was greasepaint, which actors have been using for centuries, and still do. Her make-up, and that of the thirty or so actors who played the Winkies, had copper mixed in to make it green. How are you related to Miss Hamilton?
Judy Garlands story is heartbreaking, which displays Hollywood never changed.. what’s accepted did, the heinous crimes committed became the norm.
So sad.
Reminds me of what Dave Chappelle stated about how the media will spin stories to protect those big wigs in Hollywood.
That's as may be, but Judy's problems-- her real, life-shattering problems-- started after "Wizard."
All that abuse just to make a movie, what a waste of time
Yeah and instead of learning the lesson, they decided to inject politics into everything.
Hollywood sucks
@@acacia8261 There was no abuse.
@@MaskedMan66 full of abuse
If I only had keeps sponsorship...
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I can imagine you actually living in a place that looks like that on the outside
hi rusty
Hollywood has always been like an anglerfish honestly, it baits in you with something nice and shiny and then it eats you whole and shits you out with no remorse
That's a good metaphor.. hyperbole? Other english terms? I dunno, I'm not an Englishalogist
@@hossdelgado626 It is a methaphor, don't worry, you were right.
Heartbreaking
@Joshna Frank On a full technical level it’s a simile, because it uses the word “like”. A metaphor directly equates two things, a simile relates them. So “Hollywood is _like_ an anglerfish” is a simile, while “Hollywood is an anglerfish” is a metaphor.
@@hippothehippo I don't care :)
They didn't care about Bert's health, they just wanted him to keep working?! Such a piece of garbage their boss must be. It's sad that these amazingly talented people suffered in terrible ways, yet they all deserved better imo.
This video is full of lies and misrepresentation. People don't realize, because rumormongers don't tell them, that they took frequent breaks to cool off; the lights were shut off, the doors were opened, and Bert was able to open his costume and also get his hands out.
all just for a kid's movie
@@acacia8261 A family movie, and one which the stars and crew loved. People have gone through far worse for other movies. Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double on the last "Harry Potter" movie is now a quadriplegic because of a stunt that went wrong. On some movie sets and locations, people have even died.
@@MaskedMan66 wizard of oz is evil movie, evil
@@acacia8261 Oscar, stick to giving Steve and Jaime their assignments. That's what you're good at.
Man, studios should do "prestige" films again. Big Films that exist as art, and not as something to earn money, not even their budget back. It really does show just how corporate Hollywood is now.
I'm not particularly aware of what exactly a prestige film entails, but by the definition in the video, Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean would be prestige films too right?
@@billybro1403 Lord of the Rings is debatably a prestige film, sure, but I highly doubt Pirates could be considered one.
From my understanding, a prestige film was essentially spending oodles of money on a making the highest quality film, and having little expectation of making said money back. You're not making the film for business in this case, but "prestige", thus the name.
I doubt Pirates was ever thought to be anything other than financially successful for Disney, but I can totally see how Lord of the Rings being filmed by Peter Jackson was highly risky and ambitious.
@@ImCurrentlyNaked thanks for explaining.
It broke my heart when Margaret Hamilton was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. To be in suffering with the rest of the crew, the lasting effects go on longer than Judy's addictions. I give no shortage of sympathy on Judy's trauma, but for Hamilton to slowly forget all she is and has done, for her real person and place in the world fade away, is truely disheartening.
Alzheimer's is an awful, awful thing.
@@truereaper4572 soul is gone
It is the slow death of memory, though I believe the personality is usually left unscathed. It's like soap opera amnesia without the moment where you suddenly get it all back.
@@truereaper4572 It's like hollowing in Dark Souls, only it's real
Nothing that happened to Miss Hamilton while making "Wizard"-- or indeed any of the other movies, T.V. shows, and stage plays she worked in-- had anything to do with her Alzheimer's.
I can't imagine being in that 100lb lion suit the whole day, nobody just willingly signs up for that torture
He was a furry
There is something pretty badass about wearing an actual lion pelt though.
yoo its the justin 2.0
@@leoelbocchifan 😂😂😂
When people have the thirst for clout they're capable of unimaginable things...
another really good example of how badly child stars are treated is Bobby Driscoll, whose story would be a really interesting video. One of Disney's first contract actors, he was part of some big movies of Disney's early era (Song of the South, Treasure Island, and especially Peter Pan), but as soon as he hit puberty, he was dropped hard, weeks after Peter Pan came out. He fell into a spiral of drug use and depression, until he lost his life at 31.
Judy wasn't badly treated here.
@@MaskedMan66 Ok? I was talking about Bobby Driscoll..
@@MaskedMan66 she was
@@paperhat_boi Nope.
i think the worst part about this is that pretty much everything that caused the team harm was completely unnecessary
so many things were completely avoidable if things were done just barely different
Accidents are accidents; millions of them happen every day. Make-up was necessary to create the illusion of a different skin color or texture; nobody foresaw accidents, because nobody ever does.
This entire production sounds like a nightmare
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@@kingcrimson2168 verified man says verified thing
That is the point of a RUclips poop production.
@@DeanL6_ Do not question, consume entertainment.
hey buddy
"It is art, not the artist, that stands the test of time."
People will remember you for what you do, because it's your actions that define who you are.
I guess no one said the artist can't be the art themselves.
More like "that's a very obvious observation of mortality, Emp." As is the case with this comment.
Is Emp like a philosophy or psych student or something? Because he always seems to want to make these ties to very elementary concepts in those fields with this gravitas like they're fucking mind-blowing and deep when they're all really basic and naïve perspectives of existentialism. I didn't major/minor in philosophy, but I've been into it since freshman year highschool and some of Emps attempts at being deep reek of "Freshman who read one essay by Nietzsche and wants everyone to know." We haven't even questioned the validity of empiricism yet ffs.
Like, the info in the video is cool, but the end portion was really "wannabe deep" about things that are REALLY basic concepts.
@@ozvoid1245 there's that saying that people usually cant look at the artist without thinking about the art
@@warbossgegguz679 I personally just see it more as him making the most out of a concept or subject.
It's essentially him appreciating small, obscure, or seemingly insignificant concepts, and his message is usually that sometimes we need to appreciate those things too.
He doesn't care if people don't care to appreciate these things, because they actually aren't important. The reason he does this for those looking to appreciate something.
He's not stating to himself, as if his mind was blown from the information, but instead is for others that never thought about these kinds of things.
It's a niche really, that's all.
@@warbossgegguz679 Its not like the whole field of philosophy is surface level or anything
Only just found this video, and whilst it’s morbidly fascinating to learn about, I’m more horrified by the apparent mental state of the MaskedMan66 guy responding to literally every negative view on the films production in this entire comments section to defend it - I feel like I’ve just peered into the abyss
Not negative, just untrue. There are plenty of negative things that happened during the production of this movie without inventing more of them. Have you actually looked critically into any of the reports that people blindly believe, like the lies about Judy Garland being abused and bullied by her co-stars? Or are you willing to read the books you've seen me recommend, which were written by historians who spoke to the people who created the film?
Bottom line, you needn't worry about my "mental state" as all I'm here for-- and anyone could do what I'm doing-- is to provide the truth.
@Adrian Vegas He's had no problem with my comments.
@Adrian Vegas Got two, thanks. Next irrelevant comment?
@Adrian Vegas Two's plenty. And your judgment is faulty. Why should someone who actually is after setting the record straight about this movie (and I'm not the only one) be restricted from it? Very baffling reasoning there.
@Adrian Vegas I have the same amount of time as anyone in any given day, and it doesn't take much of it to dash off these comments.
Truth is truth, and ratings are irrelevant to it. People always crowd around scandal; that doesn't make it true. "The National Enquirer" has been a top-selling publication for almost a century; does that mean it tells the truth? Think about that for a bit.
I don't think "literally" everyone would appreciate you speaking for them; in point of fact, many people have taken the time to check out the facts and have realized the rumormongers are spreading nonsense.
They should make a movie about the making of this movie
Documentary
Only if they had Loprna Luft and John Fricke as consultants. They'd keep any and all of the lies out of the script.
Today, we learn why there's a union for every group in the film industry
"One man can only start so many unions"
@@kimgkomg Mickey Rooney was in quite a few unions. ;-)
Yep, and it saddens me that many people feel uneasy about the modern ones today.
@@garybrown2039 Blame the mob.
@MaskedMan66 My dad doesn’t like Mickey Rooney too much. Apparently when he was growing up, he was forced to watch all the Andy Hardy movies alongside his brothers and sisters as part of an archaic family activity known as Movie Night. I can only imagine the intense discomfort and suffering he went through having to watch those films over and over, just sayin’. 😱
Hollywood can be a hell of a place.
It looks so bright and shiny on the outside, but inside it is completely rotten.
So like most industries we grow up wanting to be apart of?
@@shawklan27 Yeah, exactly like that. It's unfortunate but what are ya gonna do.
Fitting that Disney's first film featured a poisoned but beautiful apple
this
Yeah, forget the film industry. They treat employees like commodities. I'm going to the NFL instead.lol
5:19 "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy/Fairies" from Tchaikovsky's *The Nutcracker* ballet.
7:15 "Habanera" from Georges Bizet's *Carmen.*
9:55 *Danse Macabre* by Camille Saint-Saens.
Outstanding work Emp, nice touch having it sync up with The Dark Side of the Moon. That ending was eerie leading up to the marionette. Painted a great picture without words.
Listen to the tapes of Judy toward the end of her life that she recorded for an autobiography. Her drunken drugged up rants about the industry are eye opening, such a tortured soul after the ringer she was out through by the evil s.o.b.s in Hollyweird
Where can I find these tapes? Are they available on RUclips? This sounds so interesting!
@@Serioslump They are all in this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLF2932280AE5133F7
boozed up druggies say alot of things to be taken with a grain of salt.
@@SENATORPAIN1 sheep! Think for yourself.
@@Logicalporkpie what?
It's sad to see how happy and cartoony everyone was on-screen, but how much injuries, and dark conditions they had to do to make oz come to life.
Maybe it was a good thing they never bothered doing a sequel back then because later books in the series would probably tax the cast way more due to being more epic in scope and harder to adapt with the technology of the time. Its good to quit while youre ahead as i can only imagine how much more screwed up the cast would be if they made this into a series.
Holy fuck honestly this film doesn't seem worth the entertainment it gave compared to the amount of suffering it created for those who made it. I could honestly say I would have rather it not have ever existed than have it exist and all these bad things happen to these people.
Not "dark," just diffucult, like working on any movie. The people who made "Gone With the Wind" had much more drama on their set.
@@jgm-ex6ls There was talk of doing a sequel, and both Ray Bolger and Judy Garland would have been up for it, but once the movie was out and the promotional tours were over, everyone was already off on other projects. Besides, I doubt they could have paid Jack Haley enough to put on the buckram suit again.
I've always wondered, though, how they would have done "The Marvelous Land of Oz." Though Dorothy wasn't in the book, audiences would have insisted on her being worked in so they could see Judy in the role again. The central character Tip could have been played by Judy's pal Mickey Rooney, and maybe Buddy Ebsen could have finally made it to Oz as Jack Pumpkinhead. There was a hilarious Irish character actress named Una O'Connor, who would have been a perfect Mombi.
@@michaelvandevusse3728 Everybody in the film considered it well worth the hard work; Margaret Hamilton, who suffered the most of anyone in the cast, loved the movie and was one of its biggest fans. She always appeared at Oz events and conventions, and even played the Wicked Witch many more times, both on stage and T.V.
You have to understand that ANY movie is hard to make and that difficulties with costumes and special effects and other things were commonplace; even today you still get actors having injuries and other things going wrong. "Wizard" is by no means unique.
I love these videos man, you’re definitely my new favorite RUclipsr. You’re like a better chiller vsauce, Interesting and informing
The Keeps AD was entertaining for these reasons:
•It is self-aware about EmpLemon doing yet another AD for Keeps.
• It is a spot-on parody of the Tornado and the Wizard head scenes from the movie.
• Once the AD was over, the tone changes from light-hearted to serious.
The amount of effort in the video, even this AD really shows.
Margaret Hamilton was a real class act. You really couldn’t have met a nicer lady, it’s very funny that she played the wicked witch.
The price of death
Also she was a distant cousin to Commissioner Gordon of Batman 1966 fame.
@Jared Jams That's true! I've met Dave Prowse, Jacqueline Pearce, Eric Roberts, and other people who have played some very evil characters, yet they themselves were the nicest and most genuine folks you could ever hope to meet.
@@thegreenbird795 Neil Hamilton, yep!
@Jared Jams It's like the guy who plays Cyrus on TPB is actually super cool IRL.
EmpLemon is building his own yellow brick road; every new video he lays down is gold.
agreed
Swung for favorited comment and missed
That comment is gold.
His videos are trash lol
facts
I think "separate the art from the artist" may be the best case for something like Wizard of Oz, though in this case, it's a matter of separating the work from the director and studio behind it. It's sad to see that the actors behind Wizard of Oz never got the compensation the should have deserved for putting their health through such awful torment during the film's production. To me, the actors who suffered on set for Wizard of Oz are the real artists behind it, not the greedy executives or enterprise that funded it.
They got paid, what are you talking about? And they weren't "put through such awful torment," they just did hard work; that's all Jack Haley ever called it.
@@MaskedMan66 Why do u bother to reply to every single comment defending them, did you work on the movie or smth??
By the way, nobody called the execs or the studio "artists."
@@JJLarge What I defend is the truth. Too many lies are told, and too many people believe them.
@@MaskedMan66
And how do you know that the “truth” you’ve received was not a fabrication? That those books you love to cite were extremely selective of what story they told and made to portray the situation in the best possible light? Has such an introspective thought ever pierced your mind?
One of the best videos I've seen this year on YT, superb writing. Thank you!
It’s ironic to me how Return To Oz, the much darker film of the two, had far better conditions for its actors and actresses than Wizard Of Oz, the supposedly cheerier and friendlier one.
People here will not agree because they like to sh*t on Hollywood at every turn, but things did improve, which is why conditions are better now. Old Hollywood was brutal though.
I liked Return to Oz better because it was much closer to the books than the 1939 MGM movie.
RtO wasn't connected to MGM's "Wizard." And much of what this video tells is regurgitated rumor and lies.
@@melissacooper4282 I've always thought that it was the most authentic bit of Oz ever filmed, with the possible exception of L. Frank Baum's own Oz movies.
@@Pwn3r you can't tell me those shitty yet beautiful actors and actresses aren't being trafficked for carnal stuff
its like the quote "They say you die twice. Once when you stop breathing and the second, a bit later on, when somebody mentions your name for the last time"
Not wrong. You only *really* die when you're forgotten.
To be fair no one ever truly knows you so you are already dead.
Then you only die if God says "I do not know you"
Yeah but sometimes the latter happens first
This reminds me of a quote from One Piece, which really fits.
"When does a man die? When he is shot by a bullet? No. When he suffers a disease? No. When he ate a soup made of a poisonous mushroom? No. A man dies when he is forgotten."
I honestly can't believe how evil Hollywood can be without any repercussions
Can't imagine how horrible it was to work on the set for this movie as one of the actors, let alone the main star of this entire disaster
There were no evil people involved in this movie, and everybody had to deal with the blazing hot lights, which is why Victor Fleming had them shut off every half hour or so to let people relax and cool off.
@@MaskedMan66 my man, what are you still doing in this comment section?
@@danielnizberg1754 Not "still," I'm paying a return visit. One tends to when things show up in one's feed. 🙂
@@MaskedMan66 either this comment showed up in your feed, which it didn't
or you're constantly checking the comment section, which means you're just lurking here
@@danielnizberg1754 Your comment, like all new comments addressed to me, popped up in Notifications. I expect it's the same for you.
Rusty Cage needs to make a full version of “If I Only Had Some Hair”
Honestly the “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” is iconic
Hollywood productions in a nutshell
It was a screen in the book.
@@MaskedMan66 you're a very pedantic man
@@clonetrooper75 Nothing wrong with a bit of trivia here and there.
@@MaskedMan66sure, just dont be such a knob jockey about it
Reminds me of how Malcolm MacDowell was basically tortured while making A Clockwork Orange. From the director Stanley Kubrick making his character have a pet snake when MacDowell has a fear of snakes, to him nearly drowning in one of the stunts, to him suffering long lasting eye damage from one of the more iconic scenes.
Through all that however he was ironically the only actor to have positive things to say about Kubrick
Kubrick has always been a massive asshole when it comes to how he treats those he works with. He is an amazing director and I really do appreciate his work, but then again, he treated his actors like trash, just look at how he treated Shelley Duvall on the set for The Shining.
@@theraymunator I was about to mention Kubrick's psychotic perfectionism in The Shining. Causing Shelley Duvall to literally lose strands of hair on set from all the stress and pressure he brought to her. Literally dozens and dozens of takes Duvall had to go through. Screaming in the bathroom scene if I'm correct.
But yeah. Despite Kubrick's genius directing, he was an asshole.
_"I WAS CURED ALRIGHT."_
@@antoniomaldonado8876 personally I still think she was pretty shit. I would hated to have seen the outtakes of her.
You've got a classical overload in this video, and I love it. Bizet, Saint-Säens, and Beethoven, all of whom I heard bits and pieces of just casually watching.
I love how you decided to do informative videos instead of just YTPs. But still have some YTP humour to these videos.
Wow. Holy shit. The amount of care put into the safety of the actors was almost exactly 0% fuck s given, amazing. I bet she was like “see I told you fire was a bad idea” after the broom exploded
Thats why companies now having strict safety regulations to follow these days.
@@rayminishi689 good lol
@@rayminishi689 There's an old saying that goes "regulations are written in blood", and often times for good reason.
@@rayminishi689 SAG being one of them.
There's one important thing to consider. Back then movie tickets didn't cost 20 dollars. The costs and regulations today make everything so expensive it's harder to take risk on a loss.
That's not just true for movies but for everything. Life is getting so expensive and the rise in costs are accelerating. This is how civilizations collapse. Eventually people can no longer afford to live, and the system breaks down. Oh, but at least actors get treated like gods for their ability to play pretend..
I remember when I was in kindergarten there was a Wizard of Oz play at my school and my music teacher let us sign up to be Munchkins, I was the last one in line and when I asked he told me there wasn't any Munchkin spots left but he did have a role for me...
I was the tornado
Truly the most important role of the play
The storm that was approaching?
You could have been Dorothy's dog. At least, the tornado only appears a few seconds
@Simple Weirdo h
@@zero123alpha6
Provoking
Black clouds in isolation
Hes the reclaimer of his name
Born in flames
He has been blessed
His family crest is a demon of death
I just got into your channel and I have to say, your writing is really something, it’s incredibly well thought out, and flows very nicely.
And is full of misinformation.
Hollywood can be a messed up place sometimes, actors are the forgotten more than the characters they played, and that’s a hard pill to swallow, please support the people starring in movies, they have done some great stuff.
Lotta B.S. in this video.
I played Oz in the high school rendition of this. Dealing with theater kids was only slightly less terrible than the conditions of the real thing
Wow even other youtubers respect emp or like him im glad tbh.
Glad emp gets what he deserves
Nice
You're a theatre kid too though...
I am early
And what's funny about the Wizard of Oz and MGM's quest to use it as a way to flex their strength, is that MGM doesn't even own it anymore, or any of their pre-1980s movies.
MGM is such an incredibly irrelevant studio in the current entertainment landscape.
Now I want to know what happened that made them fall so far.
@@bigboi5545 Poor management in the 70s and 80s for one. Two would be that there was some corporate reshuffle that resulted in them losing all their pre-80s movies to Turner/WB.
@@tripplefives1402 That'll be a sight to see.
MGM hasn't existed for some years.
Damn Emp, another incredibly deep and entertaining video. Ironically, you truly do deserve a bigger stage my man
Don't be too impressed; there's a lot of misinformation here.
Your statement on art immortalizing people tunes in to something my wife said to me recently: "I think you should make art for you, and incorporate yourself in it in whatever way you can. Because when you're gone, it'll only be your art that remains. Proof of your existence."
I can't help but feel like this film's production would ironically make for a decent film all its own... like a period-correct Noire flick or something.
Nah that'd have to be ironically colorfully
Like disaster flick?
They made a movie in the 1980s about the casting of the munchkins, but it wasn’t very good.
So long as John Fricke was in charge of it; that way we'd get the true story and not any sensationalized garbage.
@@Attmay If you're talking about "Under the Rainbow," that was a total fabrication based on lies and bigotry.
who knew that a youtube pooper is quickly becoming the most interesting essayist on youtube
I like to think that the youtube poops were just surreal essays.
essayist? that word does not need to exist
@@overlord3481 Well it does. dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/essayist
The genre is that shitty
Meanwhile, Schaffrillas and Tamatoa cough serupticiously from the sidelines..
Another great video and a very interesting topic, I'd love to see you cover more films of that era.
That was the best ad I've ever seen in a RUclips video. Well done guys.
It’s crazy how common these scenarios are in the entertainment industry. Crunch culture in the gaming industry is similar to this. I’ve heard of people in studios working over 80 hrs a week.
Edit: Thanks for all the likes lol
Construction too. I'm done with working 70 to 80 hours a week doing dangerous shit in 100 degree weather.
I worked on Lone Ranger from January to October. I averaged 90 hours a week.
thats capitalism for you lol. exploitation of the workers in practically every scenario. just a cog in a machine.
@@cheekybananaboy3361 Being an entrepreneur is the best of capitalism, in fact, if you hate your job, ask someone about entrepreneurship and personal finance.
Got new pain
"Oh yeah, the Cowardly Lion must've sucked wearing all that fur."
**looks at the Wicked Witch and Tin Man, remembering this is the age of lead-lined paint**
Oh...oh God
Very powerful
The make-up was not lead-lined.
I remember that the make-up that Margaret Hamilton wore had copper in it.
@@MaskedMan66 still, paint generally had lead in it back then, no way the face paints had anything good for you in them either. Go figure, also metals.
@@Slender_Man_186 Considering the fact that actors have been wearing greasepaint (main component: oil) on stage and screen since the 1860's and nobody's brought up any particular health concerns from it, I'd say nobody in "Wizard" was the least bit worried. And of course, nobody had any aftereffects.
let's not forget for every actor sitting hours in a makeup room with toxic chemicals, and heavy costumes, there were 2-3 stagehands who worked with the same things but were not compensated nearly enough as the main actors. I find it hard to feel bad for them when they could afford to get care afterwards once the medicine caught up, but the woman who broke her ankle and got paid 800$ was left with that for her whole life.
There were no "toxic chemicals." Heavy costumes have been around as long as there has been acting; they're still with us. There were hundreds of stage hands and they all got paid what movie crew personnel got paid. "Once the medicine caught up?" What does that even mean? One or two Winged Monkeys broke ankles, but none of them was a woman.
@@MaskedMan66asbestos? Lol
@@kdmac8110 The only asbestos used in the movie was a sheathe under Ray Bolger's left sleeve for the scene in which the Wicked Witch sets the Scarecrow's arm alight. The snow was crushed gypsum.
Besides, the OP was talking about the make-up.
Definitely one of the more thought provoking content creators I've found and I love it
FUN FACT:
On the set of the Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was bullied and treated miserably by her co-actors. Ironically, the only friend she made on set was Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch.
That was incredibly hard.
How is this "fun"?
:( I didm't have any fun with this.
Fun...
after watching this vid,
her co-actors also suffered tremendous pain, it is just kinda sad they thrown their negativity towards judy
12:06 i literally got goosebumps thinking about how asbestos fell from the sky and all over them
"Mmmm popcorn ceilings" looks at the ceiling of my entire house.
@@adamofblastworks1517 *"FUNNY WEATHER WE ARE HAVING"*
This ain't just regular asbestos, it's ARSENIC-COATED ASBESTOS WITH LEAD PAINT!
Literally raining death from above.
It’s like that scene in Chernobyl where the crowd reacting to the fallout as if it’s snow.
Honestly, crying at this video. These stories are harrowing...
And in some cases, exaggerated, or indeed lied about. It was a tough job, and accidents did happen. But if you think "Wizard" is the only movie in history to have production problems, then you have much to learn.
Another great video! I'm facinated with the Wizard of Oz and everything that surround its production. Your channel is awesome btw. I just discovered it and been binge watching it since then. Cheers from Brazil.
There are a lot of lies and half-truths in this video. It would be better for you to read the books "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
Other books which contain useful bits of information include ”Down the Yellow Brick Road” (1976) by Doug McClelland, “The Oz Scrapbook" (1977) by David L. Greene and Dick Martin, and "The World of Oz" (1985) by Allen Eyles.
@@MaskedMan66 thank you for the recomendations.. I will look into it.
The creators of Wizard of Oz: Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
Quest!? What kind of “Quest?”
*applause*
@Night Terror Let the Downward Spiral BEGIN!
Not entirely accurate. You mean to say, "the adapters of the Wizard of Oz." The original author of the Oz books had no involvement with the movie since he had died years prior.
“Aw, did someone get addicted to meth?”
I've heard of Hollywood horror stories, but this is just heartbreaking. The lengths some people will go to see their dreams become reality is scary.
This is the dark and very scary truth in the business of acting.
@@EnaTenkiyoGamer Nothing dark, nothing scary; it was just hard work.
This video is full of gross exaggerations. Read up and get the real story from the people who know: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
Dude, you get mad props for making quite possibly the only legitimately entertaining advert on RUclips in the last two years.
Really wonderful epilogue. Bravo 👏🏼 a truly enjoyable video.
And while all of this horror was happening, there were people living in the horror of poverty and lack of food. the '20s and 30s were fucking horrible
No, the Depression had ended six years before, and while there were lasting effects, life had pretty much got back to normal. And the making of "Wizard" had its difficulties, but "horror" doesn't really apply.
@@MaskedMan66 Well that's both true and not true at the same time. Is it true that people were getting close to being back to normal. However it took until world war 2 when the great depression finally ended and soon after the war was over the economy recovered. And also after all the production troubles that the movie had to go through is horror truly not enough for you?
@@seanvasquez523 What I said stands. Economic restoration took some time, but the actual state of depression was over in 1933. Hollywood turned out 365 movies in 1939, a record that has not been matched since. Obviously things were going well financially for them if for no-one else. And people did still go to the movies; there are photos of people lined up around the block to see "Wizard." There were always huge crowds for the big premieres, wherever they occurred in the country.
Yes, there were production troubles, but that was not a situation unique to "Wizard." And many of those have been exaggerated to ridiculous proportions by sensationalists and rumormongers. There were accidents. There was discomfort. But welcome to the world of moviemaking; there are still such things to endure nowadays. The people involved in the movie were very proud of the finished result, and you could not find bigger fans of it than Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, and Margaret Hamilton.
@@MaskedMan66 oh damn even here
@@afellowhuman8944 Didn't you know? Like Dr. K, I'm everywhere!
This movie is scary to look behind the scenes. The stories about the midget orgies really scarred me.
Excuse me...the *WHAT*
@@Generic_Gaming_Channel
Yeah I second that.
Watch the movie with Chevy chase. If it’s accurate then they were wee little gobshites
@@jamesgreen1166 oh...oh no
@@Generic_Gaming_Channel I'm intrigued and horrified at the same time
It's mindboggling how this dude can make absolutely any topic interesting
Well and truly able to make magic
I swear when a year passes this channel gets so much better
I had known about Margaret and Judy’s treatment but I never realised the whole cast were treated so terribly. Now I’m wondering whether the flying monkeys were ok in their costumes...
Well, supposedly, during sequences of them flying, rather than use the normal wire harnesses, the crew used a thinner line to better hide the strings on camera. As a result, a lot of the wires broke
It wasn't a matter of "mistreatment," it was a matter of hard work. The Winged Monkeys were just fine in their costumes; they were ordinary animal costumes. In fact, Pat Walshe, who played the WWW's wingless familiar Nikko, was famous for doing an astonishingly convincing chimpanzee impression using a hair suit and very little make-up.
@@Account_Not_Applicable They used regular harnesses, but one or two still broke.
"You have to wonder if any of them ever regretted it"
The guy who played the first tin man: "Am I joke to you?"
You are joke to all
He was in the Beverly Hillbillies. Classic show.
*am I a joke to you
In fact, he did regret not being able to continue.
In fact, Buddy Ebsen did regret not being able to continue.
Damn. Great video. Wish it was longer.
Fun fact- One time, Judy Garland laughed in the scene where she slaps the lion, causing multiple takes to be ruined, then she got bitch slapped by the pissed off director. stuff like that is littered throughout the production, it's both tragic & interesting to see the production of such an insanely popular movie.
Victor Fleming wasn't angry. The studio was about to close and they had to get the shot finished. And of course you've left out where Fleming felt horrible for doing it and tole John Lee Mahin to break his nose for it, following which Judy kissed his nose by way of forgiving him. There was no such incident ever again.
@@MaskedMan66 sorry, I didn't know that somebody told me diffently
Buddy fate was depressing not only was he fired from one of the most greatest Hollywood movies ever made and a role of a iconic character. but he was left with chronic bronchitis that followed him to his death
And not even oaid
He had a congenital bronchial problem from the time he was in his mama's womb. His fate was to go on to a long and prolific career in which he created two iconic T.V. characters, namely Jed Clampett and Barnaby Jones. He lived to the ripe old age of 95, and only died 18 years ago.
Jesus Christ the longer you watch the more of a real life horror story this becomes
My jaw dropped with every actor(res) talked about.
In class, we were discussing how The Truman Show predicted actor exploitation, but here, it's clear it was always the case.
Real life can be pretty horrifying. Once modern society collapses due to rising costs and over-regulation that makes life impossible for people, you're going to find out.
@@namenameson9065 Whats over-regulation to you? If you think about it, most of the stuff that happened to these actors happened because of no regulations at all.. The rising cost of living though, for sure thats gonna do us in.
@@Pwn3r Well I'm no expert on anything, really, so I couldn't tell you specifically how much regulation is too much when it comes to various industries. BUT, I do know that we are regulating ourselves out of being able to function, and places like China are picking up what we're losing. So there is clearly a problem here.
Our regulation is 1-sided. We shut ourselves down and make life impossible for ourselves, and then do nothing to prevent our global competition, that is actually quite hostile towards us and is in their own internal policies AT WAR with us, from gaining an advantage. This is suicidal really.
Amazing video, loved the ending a lot, and it actually made me tear up.
smashed the like button when that kickass shot of greenscreen city popped up at 1:10
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Everyone removed from the Public eye except Margaret Hamilton who got an episode of Sesame Street banned because she reprised her role as the wicked witch
I remember hearing about it, they said it was too scary for kids, right?
She was also in an episode of Mister Rogers
@@theraymunator yeah, from what I heard, PBS was getting a bunch of WTF letters from parents
What do you mean "removed from the public eye?" As long as any of these people lived, they made themselves visible; in the 1970's especially, Hamilton, Bolger and Haley were very much in the public eye because of the coming 40th anniversary in 1979. Bolger even reprised his Scarecrow for a musical skit on _The Donny & Marie Osmond Show_ in 1977. Likewise, Miss Hamilton played the Wicked Witch in _The Paul Lynde Halloween Special_ in 1976.
@@MaskedMan66 I'm not sure, I didn't grow up on Wizard of Oz. I just knew of the Maragaret Hamilton Sesame Street fiasco
An intresting quote I heard from one of my philosophy teachers in school.
"Art is testament of the obsession of man to reach immortality!"
Unfortently I don't know were it is from.
Like Pink Floyd once said “I’ll see you on the dark side of Hollywood...”
Or was it something else?
It's so interesting how the historical standing of an artwork is so often directly aligned with the suffering of their creation.
There wasn't as much suffering as some would want you to believe. Buddy Ebsen did have his difficulties which knocked him on his back and out of the picture. Margaret Hamilton did get burned, but did not let it knock her out of the picture. It was hard work under hot lights. But otherwise it was business as usual.
Jesus Hollywood, I thought there's a glimmer of light side in Hollywood. But nope, apparently it's all dark
They "injured" all of their actors for life permanently and they just walk away with it.
Respect for all people who documented this, respect for EmpLemon who researched and told us about this
This is why SAG was founded. While extreme, stories like this were common.
This is in the 30s. In over a 100 years lots have changed. Workers rights grew. Its better and maybe needs to get even better.
100th like
You’ll hear these stories within literally any older popular movie.
@blah blah what?
I didn't think it would be dark..and I was swiftly disproven at the fate of the second actor.
yeah honestly if you like old Hollywood don't look anything up you will be traumatized bye it 90 percent of the kids where owned by the studios and were regularly molested if they spoke out they were forced to site on a ice block for hours it was fucked up
@@wander1139 Well Hollywood has always been messed up ever since the day it was founded. But within a century of its existence things haven't got any better either.
@@aleisinwndrlen7113 I think it at the very least marginally better with people the actors can go to the kids back then had no choice they were literally sold to the studio with no option to talk to any one safety standards has risen and with birth of social media its much harder to get away with the blatant sexual harassments that they had been involved with for years
@@wander1139 *Please* use punctuation, I beg of you.
@@wander1139 My point was that Hollywood is, was, and will always be shady. Even if people are taking child abuse etc more seriously, they always have got something under their sleeves.
Nice vid. Took me a while to actually sit down and watch it. Glad I did.
Man, I remember the old days when you did funny ytps. You’ve really changed the channel around. But hey, it’s not a bad change. Good to see you still going good.