larry falter indeed the performance is so great . Often enough such performances became ignored by Juries. Agnes Moorehead is another example. The right people have them in their hearts and that counts in the end. I saw Wizard of Oz as child with fear, as adult until now over and over. It is magic. Wonderful Margaret Hamilton, Judy, Billie Burke, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, unforgetable moments
Yes,I can't help but chuckle every time I see her look up,as Glinda says,"Be gone,before someone drops a house on you,as well," as if SHE,the wicked witch of the West,the quintessential villain,fears that she actually may not be as powerful as she believes herself to be,if Glinda warns her that,like her sister,she,too,could get crushed and killed by a house dropping out of the sky. Still,at least in the end,she does get what's coming to her,by getting drenched by a bucketful of water and thus meeting her well deserved untimely end.
+Andrew Colin Wilson Interesting idea, but it would have been more trouble than it was worth in 1939. Still, maybe that could have been a way of resolving the whole Gale Sondergaard thing. In "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz," Miss Piggy played all four witches: Glinda, Tattypoo, and the two Wicked Witches.
@@andrewcolinwilson1 No. The script has Dorothy call Glinda "a beautiful witch," and Miss Hamilton, despite her beautiful soul, did not have a '30s beauteous physiognomy.
Oh yes. She literally defined the concept of a witch as we know it. The reason when you think of the term "witch," you think green skin, dark robes, and a pointy black hat and broomstick, it's all because of Margaret Hamilton's performance.
SO agree. The Oscars should give her a special posthumous honor - long overdue. And, for that matter, they should do the same for the other really great character actor in the movie, Frank Morgan, who played 5 roles in the film.
@@broddybounce Start something like that, then people will be demanding such awards for thousands of dead people in all areas of entertainment who aren't around to appreciate them.
Yeah she kept in touch with Judy Garland after the movie ended and they were good friends. Judy Garland said that Margaret Hamilton was more of a mother to her than her own (often drunk) mom. Margaret even attended Judy's high school graduation
@@MaskedMan66 She did, Margaret Hamilton talked about it on the Merv Griffin show in the early sixties. Unfortunately no footage of the show survives today, but it sounds like the sort of thing Margaret Hamilton would have done, she loved children and saw in Judy a kid who needed help.
@@bobbyhoffman5967 That's because the producer had a different vision from the casting director. Mervyn Le Roy wanted a slinky, sexy witch like Snow White's stepmother. But the casting director wanted a "typical" fairy tale wicked witch.
@@MaskedMan66 Victor Fleming was a genius. He was known as a fixer and saved so many films from certain death. It's hard to believe he fixed both The Wizard Of Oz and Gone With The Wind in the same year.
There actually exists a clip where Margaret Hamilton talks with Mister Rogers, and she seemed like such a sweet, wonderful lady. It takes real good acting chops to be so sweet in real life, and play one of the most despicable and wicked characters in film :-)
WishfulThinkingArt Yup! I've met Dave Prowse (Darth Vader of "Star Wars"), Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan of "Blake's 7"), and Anthony Ainley (the Master of "Doctor Who"), just to name a few, and they've all been very kind and welcoming.
Back in 1979 St. John's University in Queens featured a charity event where they showed "The Wizard of Oz" and appearing in person was Margaret Hamilton. She sat in the audience and later spoke and answered questions. She was absolutely lovely in every sense of the word. The entire audience fell in love with her; she received the most prolonged standing ovation I have ever seen. One of my more fonder memories.
“For TWENTY THREE YEARS I’ve been dying to tell you what I thought of you and now…..well being a Christian woman I can’t say it!” Aunt Em was a badass!
This is by far the best Wicked Witch Of The West. Heck it even beats out all the wannabe witches. This is truly a classic Wizard of Oz character. Fun fact, she used to scare the shit out of me when I was young. Not kidding.
The incredible thing is most of her "scariest" scenes were cut pre-production as to not frighten children. Hell the scenes they left still scare me and I'm pushing 50 lol.
I think what's really funny about that line is that it just keeps going, even when it seems like she's done. I can just imagine her thinking she's done but the director just won't say cut so she keeps going. "Poppies...poppies!...POPPIES will put them to sleep...(director still doesn't say cut)...sleeeeeeep...(still going) Now they'll sleeeeeeep." (CUT!) "Finally."
I just noticed the parallel moment: In Kansas Miss Gulch, "Now you seem reason." Land of Oz Wicked Witch, "That's a good little girl, I knew you seem reason." Gets shocked trying to grab the Ruby Slippers.
One morning I went to the Post Office on 23rd St and Lexington Ave in Manhattan back in 1983 and a little old lady was standing in front of me on line waiting for a window as she approached the window she began to speak I recognized the voice right away as I took a closer look I can see it was Margaret Hamilton I wanted to say something but she was in a hurry and left right away as I approached the same window I purchased stamps as fast as I could and ask the teller who was that lady she said Margaret Hamilton so I ran out looking for her but she was gone a couple of years later she died
Yeah, when I was a kid I didn't grasp that the Kansas bit at the beginning was all foreshadowing what was about to happen in Oz, and that Professor Marvel and the farm hands became characters in Oz that were foreshadowed by their Kansas personas. Other than the tornado, as a child I thought the pre-Oz part was incredibly boring and it took seemingly forever to get through that part and to the good stuff, but I eventually realized how cleverly the Kansas scenes were written.
@@TS-ev1bl Huck/Scarecrow: "think you didn't have any brains at all Dorothy!" "When you go home don't go by Ms Gultches, then Toto won't get in her garden and you won't get into trouble!" He demonstrates using his brain there. And how Zeke jumps into the pig pen to rescue Dorothy..as the Lion he would not have done that because he would have been to afraid...Hickory says "someday they are going to erect a statue for me in this town"...maybe Hickory as the Tin Man when he's unoiled is THAT statue.
Kansas: Hunk Hickory Zeke Miss Gulch Professor Marvel Dr. J.B. Worley Electroshock Machine Nurse Wilson Hospital girl Pumpkin Oz: Scarecrow Tin Man Lion Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz King Nome Tik Tok Mombi Princess Ozma Jack Pumpkin Head
@@omundodovini3774 Different kettle of fish in RtO. Ozma was Ozma, stuck in Kansas while Dr. Worley, the Nome King's agent, kept her under lock and key. Oz is real in RtO, as in the books. Incidentally, the orderly wheeling the gurney around in the asylum was played by the same actor as played the Lead Wheeler and was the voice of the Nome spy.
Hamilton received an Oscar nomination for this role, but Hattie McDaniel won for Gone with the Wind. I think they both should have won. Two iconic performances that people still talk about almost 80 years later. I met her on a NYC street in the 1970s. She lived in the Gramercy Park neighborhood. Absolutely delightful woman, hard to imagine she could portray such evil.
Wrong. WTF, do people just make up crap these days?? Scroll down on this page to see nominees for 1940 up against Hattie: www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1940
The Wizard called at didn’t he? He told the Tin Man, “A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.” That’s why every character in the film will live forever in the hearts of humanity ❤️
The black and white scenes were tinted brown for effects. The color part of the movie was to give it that "Over the Rainbow" effect. It was not the first movie in color. Not even close. However, the Wizard of Oz is the most famous movie of all-time. Thank you for posting this. Margaret Hamilton was a very talented actress who played two roles in this movie to perfection. Did you know that she was actually younger than the Good Witch, Glinda? George Vreeland Hill
Yep Margaret Hamilton (1902-1985) was 18 years younger than Billie Burke (1884-1970). Billie Burke was 55 when she did this movie and Margaret Hamilton was 36 years old when she did this movie.
If you ask me in Hollywood movie history, what actor was cast for the perfect role that no one else could've played: Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch is my #1. Had it been played by anyone else, the movie would've bombed!
The special effects were very good for a time when there was no such thing as CGI! Ms. Hamilton did a marvelous job in her portrayal of The Wicked Witch Of The West!!
Glinda, the good witch of the North. Total badass! Everyone else practically sh*tting themselves when the Wicked Witch of the West shows up. But, she's like, "Witch, please! You've got two things here: Jack and sh*t! And Jack left town. Now, be gone from here before I put a magical smackdown on you, and your day goes from bad to worse!"
3:19 I’ve always wondered why the munchkins laid flat on the ground when the witch appeared. Were the pretending to be dead? Were they doing it to show submission to her? Or were they simply afraid?
Actually, she took a lot of her cues from Martha Wentworth, who was in the 1937 radio series "The Cinnamon Bear" as the Wintergreen Witch, who was green, had a nasty cackle, and called the child heroes of the story "my pretties." Wentworth is also known as the voice of Madam Mim in Disney's "The Sword in the Stone."
Margaret Hamilton would have been just an ordinary character actress who would have been largely forgotten like so many others, IF it wasn't for this film. Now, she is a legend.
I think she'd have been remembered for her sheer volume of work, and she would have been content with that. All she wanted was a good life for herself and her son.
The film takes great liberties with Baum’s book. I’m glad, for the finished product has become one of, if not the greatest film in motion picture history.
During the "surrender Dorothy" scene, the witch was not played by Margaret Hamilton, she was actually played by a completely different woman named Betty Danko
You can't argue with with Miss Gulch - Toto was a menace. At the very least he should have been wearing a muzzle in public to prevent such injuries. As for Uncle Henry, he was about as useful as a chocolate teapot. 😂
Very possibly. Polly Holliday has played other witchy roles and she can really do justice. That's what talent is -- playing good people, bad people, people-in-between ...
The ironic thing is that Margaret Hamilton was actually the only person who was nice to Judy garland when filming the wizard of oz and was actually said to be incredibly kind, modest, genuine and charming in person because of how nice she was to everyone
At 7:49 when the witch says she sent an insect to take the fight out of them, that is a reference to the Jitterbug dance sequence that was omitted from the final version of the movie. The jitterbug was of course a popular dance craze at the time.
i heard she appeared as a witch on sesame street, and that it frighten the kids who were watching so much so, that it was no longer allowed to be viewed or seen again on tv.
The irony thing is Margaret Hamilton's portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West would scare generations of children, yet in real life she was a former kindergarten teacher and deeply loved children.
Most villains are played by people who are nice in real life. :-) One of the nicest people I've ever met was Jacqueline Pearce, who played a murderous megalomaniac named Servalan in a sci-fi series called "Blake's 7."
And don't forget Carroll O'Conner from All in the Family. He was Archie Bunker and he always talking with his messed up English. In real life he had a masters degree in English. Go Figure.
MaskedMan66 Ya Really. I have to send a message to the one who put this video up. They forgot the most famous scene when Dorothy threw water on Scarecrow and some of hit The Witch and she melted.
+MaskedMan66 At the theatre company I take classes at my director is a super nice woman and she's played the wicked witch, Miss Hannigan, the evil queen from Snow White (they wrote their own musical of it), Carabosse (they also wrote a Sleeping Beauty musical, Mrs. Lovett, and the witch from Into the Woods, they're doing The Little Mermaid soon and I think she'll be Ursula
A small detail I watch for in the movie, when Dorothy dreams Ms. Gulch turns into the flying witch in her window, right at the moment when the witch laughs, she tilts her head back, which makes her so bad-assed! Look for it, and it will make you grin big time!
me too. very important work of filmography. I have met many women over the years who reminded me of her and they always turned out to have the same personality as her and were trying to hurt people. Problem is the ones in real life were really hurting kids and women.
@@FaytLinegod Wrong. I mean, come on, *why* would she have been snubbed?? Seriously. Here's the truth: Judy charmed everyone, especially her three co-stars, not to mention director Victor Fleming and producer Mervyn LeRoy, who was Judy's biggest fan and fought to star her in the film when studio heads still thought she wasn't ready to play the lead in a movie. Judy had previously worked with Billie Burke, Jack Haley, and Buddy Ebsen, so she was already friends with them. It didn't take any time at all for her to make friends with Bolger, Lahr, Morgan, and Miss Hamilton. She was whipsmart and able to memorize lines very quickly, and having grown up in vaudeville, she was easily able to relate to people older than she was. She was quickly accepted into Lahr, Haley, and Bolger's circle, and even became both victim and instigator of the practical jokes that particular team loved to pull on each other.
Judy Garland shouldn’t be scared of Margaret Hamilton because of her Character she played…but without the makeup she had to play the character Miss Gultch
I just read an article on this. Judy Garland wasn't allowed to eat anything other than chicken soup or black coffee because they wanted to keep her looking young. To suppress her appetite she was forced to smoke UP TO 80 CIGARETTES A DAY AT 16 YEARS OLD. That's just awful. Margaret Hamilton plays the villain in the movie but in real life she was the total opposite. Truth is stranger than fiction.
I dunno!!!! Check out this video below and go to 30:43 !!!! She definitely could have given this one a run for her money 😂 ruclips.net/video/dj-VsjJ31wI/видео.html
She taught Jim Backus (Mr Howell on Gilligan's Island) when he was a child. Considering how old he was when on Gilligan's Island. She taught in the Cleveland Ohio School System back in the 1930's.
I say the fun irony of this character is that she’s wicked and hates Dorothy, yet behind the scenes she was literally the nicest woman ever and she was the only support for Judy Garland when she was going through a hard time.
Judy was not going through a hard time; playing Dorothy Gale was a dream come true for her, and she got along with everybody; she had worked with Billie Burke, Buddy Ebsen, and Jack Haley already, and quickly made friends with Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and all the rest. Making the movie was hard work, she would have liked to eat more at mealtimes, and her corset was uncomfortable, but that's about as "bad" as she had it.
@@MaskedMan66 I’m not saying she didn’t like making this movie, and yes she should have eaten more, but she was being harassed by munkins, the director slapped her for laughing, and plus the rest of the cast had worse injuries. Ray was suffocating in his rubber mask, Buddy was replaced because of the toxic makeup, Jack had to sleep right side up in his costume on his break, Margaret had third degree burns, and a munkin hung himself (yet that last one is still a conspiracy) and Burt wasn’t allowed to eat and his costume was 300 pounds and made of real lions skin
@@b.radleypro.369 No, she should not have eaten more, because she was in the habit of eating too much, and she knew that and wanted to trim down. Judy was not being harassed by anybody. Victor Fleming did not slap her for laughing, he slapped her because the laughing fit she was having (and she constantly got the giggles) had ruined several takes and the studio was fast approaching closing time. He hated having to do it, and she forgave him. Case closed. Nobody ever said that moviemaking was easy, and the cast were all well aware of that. Ray dealt with his make-up, because he loved being the Scarecrow, which was his lifelong ambition. Buddy's make-up was not toxic, it's that the aluminum powder got into the air and then into his lungs, where it kicked off a bronchial condition he had. Jack reclined on a leaning board (much as did Anthony Daniels when he played See-Threepio in the "Star Wars" movies), and that was a good thing, as it took the weight off of his feet and allowed him to relax. Yes, Miss Hamilton had third degree burns on her right hand, but she healed and got on with her job, which she loved. Nobody hanged himself (it's not a conspiracy, it's a stupid urban myth dreamed up by some yutz in the 1970's). Bert was allowed to eat, but tended to opt for milkshakes so he wouldn't damage his make-up. His costume was SEVENTY pounds and it's no big deal that it was made of lionskin, since people have been wearing animal skins, fur, and other bits since we've been wearing anything.
@@b.radleypro.369 Don't forget that the director has Garland smoke up to 80 cigarettes a day to keep her from "getting fat". Behind the scenes this movie was not so much fun. But yes, Margaret Hamilton adored children and was indeed a very sweet woman.
+Elena DI RUVO In the 30s yes, but right now I think this is one of Dorothy's awesome moments. I just wonder where the hell that attitude went when Glinda told her she could go home any time she wanted.
@@Shanethefilmmaker At Munchkinland first whisk of ruby slippers to Dorothy's feet, Glinda manipulatively withheld from Dorothy the shoes' full operating instructions. But had Glinda told D that D could in three shoe taps be back in Kansas, movie over.
The Wicked Witch scared the piss outta me when I was a kid and watched it every year on CBS. When I got older, I realized I was terrified back then because of Margaret Hamilton’s amazing talents. She set the evil witch bar so high that it’ll never be touched by anyone. Finding out later that she was a sweetheart who adored children made me love and appreciate her even more.
Miss Hamilton actually took a lot of her cues from Martha Wentworth, who played the Wintergreen Witch in the 1937 radio series _The Cinnamon Bear._ That character was green, cackled a lot, and called the child heroes of the series "my pretties."
Simply love the line when she says "Well my little pretty, i can cause accidents too!" and then i imagine her throwing fireballs around all Munchkinland xD
+Adamguy2003 Not all over Oz; the Good Witches defended the North and South. Her power was confined to the Winkie Country. But she certainly did enough damage there.
The original Karen! Poor little Toto! The fact that in roughly 10 minutes of screen time, she made this character an ICON shows how amazing Hamilton was. Best witch period!
Poor Toto? Poor Miss Gulch! That leg wound could have turned nasty. She may have ended up losing a leg. Shame on Dorothy for letting her dog do that. Toto could have attacked Aunt Em! 😂
@@andrewmurray5542 There's no way a bite from a tiny dog like that would have led to amputation. Toto would not have attacked Aunt Em. "Gentle with gentle people," remember?
Charley Grapewin really doesn't get enough accolades for his work on the film. The way Henry is totally unimpressed by Miss Gulch's imperiousness is hilarious.
As a kid, I really only thought of the dream sequence as after the tornado picked up the house, but actually she only dreams the tornado picks up the house, and this is confusing slightly because the whole "pre-munchkinland" section of the film is made to look like there is no color, which then ends when munchkinland begins. But the dream begins before the house is picked up by the tornado. It is kind of a cinematic trick to make you think the house really was picked up by the tornado. Because at the end, you know, the house is where it always was. As a five year old I was just overwhelmed by the whole movie!
Looming back at her performance, Margaret Hamilton's portrayal of the Wicked Witch was genius and iconically legendary. God bless her for some of the best memories of my childhood !
Fun Fact: In real-life since Margaret Hamilton’s green copper based makeup was so toxic that she had to be on a strict diet for filming and only allowed to have small bites of food and only liquids too. She also after each day of filming had to make sure the makeup was fully removed from her skin before she could go home.💗☺️
The copper was only toxic when it was on fire; otherwise people wouldn't wear copper jewelry. Anybody wearing make-up tends to eat carefully, or not at all; many just rely on liquid nourishment.
Hamilton 's Wicked Witch is one of the most believable antagonists in cinematic history.
Ironic that she was a beloved elementary schoolteacher.
Margaret Hamilton should have won the Oscar that year.
That was the best year in Hollywood's history, so the competition was extremely tough. Hattie McDaniel was named the best supporting actress.
larry falter indeed the performance is so great . Often enough such performances became ignored by Juries. Agnes Moorehead is another example. The right people have them in their hearts and that counts in the end. I saw Wizard of Oz as child with fear, as adult until now over and over. It is magic. Wonderful Margaret Hamilton, Judy, Billie Burke, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, unforgetable moments
Hattie deserved the Oscar that year, but she should have at least been nominated.
I agree....she scared all the kids all over the world with her role as the wicked witch ... she was amazing .... The BEST villain up until today
larry falter she was amazing.
Sometimes, when I ride my bicycle that little tune plays in my head and I remember how fantastic she was in that movie.
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I love how she looks up for falling houses when Glinda tells her to begone
Yes,I can't help but chuckle every time I see her look up,as Glinda says,"Be gone,before someone drops a house on you,as well," as if SHE,the wicked witch of the West,the quintessential villain,fears that she actually may not be as powerful as she believes herself to be,if Glinda warns her that,like her sister,she,too,could get crushed and killed by a house dropping out of the sky. Still,at least in the end,she does get what's coming to her,by getting drenched by a bucketful of water and thus meeting her well deserved untimely end.
I wish that the Good Witch could have been played by the same actress as the Wicked Witch in a dual role. What do you think?
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+Andrew Colin Wilson Interesting idea, but it would have been more trouble than it was worth in 1939. Still, maybe that could have been a way of resolving the whole Gale Sondergaard thing.
In "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz," Miss Piggy played all four witches: Glinda, Tattypoo, and the two Wicked Witches.
@@andrewcolinwilson1 No. The script has Dorothy call Glinda "a beautiful witch," and Miss Hamilton, despite her beautiful soul, did not have a '30s beauteous physiognomy.
One of the greatest performances on film, period. Hamilton made the role legendary.
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absolutely agree: she is just *so* memorable in this!!
Oh yes. She literally defined the concept of a witch as we know it. The reason when you think of the term "witch," you think green skin, dark robes, and a pointy black hat and broomstick, it's all because of Margaret Hamilton's performance.
True that! Years later, when she did those Maxwell House coffee commercials, I was scared shitless to buy anything BUT Maxwell House!!
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margaret hamilton doesn't get enough credit for her acting. her portrayal of the witch is legendary.
She's had tons of accolades.
Yes she does. She gets plenty of credit.
SO agree. The Oscars should give her a special posthumous honor - long overdue.
And, for that matter, they should do the same for the other really great character actor in the movie, Frank Morgan, who played 5 roles in the film.
@@broddybounce Start something like that, then people will be demanding such awards for thousands of dead people in all areas of entertainment who aren't around to appreciate them.
Yeah!
No other Witch On TV or Movie History CAN TOP HER!!!
I agree. She was the greatest witch in movie history.
the witch is elphaba and she fakes her death if you watch wicked the musical you will know
Hope Burchell plus the slippers are elpahbas the witches sisters who's dead now so she's cross
Hope Burchell Ever read the original wonderful wizard of oz, or the original wicked? She melts in both.
Mabel King in "The Wiz" came darn close, though!
One of the most evil characters but the actress one of the nicest person who has ever lived
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Yeah she kept in touch with Judy Garland after the movie ended and they were good friends. Judy Garland said that Margaret Hamilton was more of a mother to her than her own (often drunk) mom. Margaret even attended Judy's high school graduation
@@theshillneckedlizard8364 I don't think she did, you know. But they did remain friends, as they did with the rest of the cast.
@@MaskedMan66 She did, Margaret Hamilton talked about it on the Merv Griffin show in the early sixties. Unfortunately no footage of the show survives today, but it sounds like the sort of thing Margaret Hamilton would have done, she loved children and saw in Judy a kid who needed help.
NO ONE IN CINEMATIC HISTORY COULD TOP THIS PERFORMANCE TIMELESS ICONIC MASTERFUL PERFECTION THE GOLDEN ZENITH ON THE SILVER SCREEN
It's also hard to believe she wasn't the first choice for the role.
@@bobbyhoffman5967 That's because the producer had a different vision from the casting director. Mervyn Le Roy wanted a slinky, sexy witch like Snow White's stepmother. But the casting director wanted a "typical" fairy tale wicked witch.
@@MaskedMan66 Tell me something I don't already know. Gale Sondergaard looked too glamorous for the role.
@@bobbyhoffman5967 That would depend on who was making the film and what their interpretation was.
@@MaskedMan66 Victor Fleming was a genius. He was known as a fixer and saved so many films from certain death. It's hard to believe he fixed both The Wizard Of Oz and Gone With The Wind in the same year.
There actually exists a clip where Margaret Hamilton talks with Mister Rogers, and she seemed like such a sweet, wonderful lady. It takes real good acting chops to be so sweet in real life, and play one of the most despicable and wicked characters in film :-)
Lots of screen villains are played by people who are nice in real life. :-)
MaskedMan66 Amazing how talented they all are, right?
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Yup! I've met Dave Prowse (Darth Vader of "Star Wars"), Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan of "Blake's 7"), and Anthony Ainley (the Master of "Doctor Who"), just to name a few, and they've all been very kind and welcoming.
Like Elphaba?
Amen to that. Margaret Hamilton is a terrific actress.
Back in 1979 St. John's University in Queens featured a charity event where they showed "The Wizard of Oz" and appearing in person was Margaret Hamilton. She sat in the audience and later spoke and answered questions. She was absolutely lovely in every sense of the word. The entire audience fell in love with her; she received the most prolonged standing ovation I have ever seen. One of my more fonder memories.
@genearthur1960What a fabulous honor to meet Margaret Hamilton ❤
this is one villainess who legitimately scares me.
“For TWENTY THREE YEARS I’ve been dying to tell you what I thought of you and now…..well being a Christian woman I can’t say it!” Aunt Em was a badass!
This is by far the best Wicked Witch Of The West. Heck it even beats out all the wannabe witches. This is truly a classic Wizard of Oz character. Fun fact, she used to scare the shit out of me when I was young. Not kidding.
Tbh, this is so much better than "Last Night's the Wiz!"
I haven't seen that show but it doesn't interest me.
She used to scare me too lol!! She was actually a kindergarten teacher and she loved kids!! Weird, right?? People said she was very nice.
She probably was nice and yes I find it pretty funny
+Ben Malloy What is "Last Night's the Wiz?"
Margret Hamilton....uh..." killed"...this role. No other person could touch her.
I remember once a year when the wizard would come on TV it was such an event at our house. Miss those days.
The moment when you've seen Wicked and you watch this when Elphaba throughs the fire ball at Fiyero and you no it was just for love !
This isn't "Wicked," nor is it connected to it.
The incredible thing is most of her "scariest" scenes were cut pre-production as to not frighten children. Hell the scenes they left still scare me and I'm pushing 50 lol.
No full scenes, just a few lines of dialogue.
Crazy how people watched this film during ww2
I cracked up the way how she said "Poppies." in that voice.
That was menacing
I think what's really funny about that line is that it just keeps going, even when it seems like she's done. I can just imagine her thinking she's done but the director just won't say cut so she keeps going.
"Poppies...poppies!...POPPIES will put them to sleep...(director still doesn't say cut)...sleeeeeeep...(still going) Now they'll sleeeeeeep." (CUT!) "Finally."
Sleeeep. Now, they'll sleeeep...
@@BJDJMusic i love how she said that 🤣
@@Blokewood3 No, that's just how it was written in the script.
I just noticed the parallel moment:
In Kansas
Miss Gulch, "Now you seem reason."
Land of Oz
Wicked Witch, "That's a good little girl, I knew you seem reason." Gets shocked trying to grab the Ruby Slippers.
That's, "I knew you'd see reason."
One morning I went to the Post Office on 23rd St and Lexington Ave in Manhattan back in 1983 and a little old lady was standing in front of me on line waiting for a window as she approached the window she began to speak I recognized the voice right away as I took a closer look I can see it was Margaret Hamilton I wanted to say something but she was in a hurry and left right away as I approached the same window I purchased stamps as fast as I could and ask the teller who was that lady she said Margaret Hamilton so I ran out looking for her but she was gone a couple of years later she died
At least you had that "brush with greatness."
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Hee! To meet her would have been terrific!!!
1:36 “You wicked old witch!” Nice foreshadowing.
Yeah, when I was a kid I didn't grasp that the Kansas bit at the beginning was all foreshadowing what was about to happen in Oz, and that Professor Marvel and the farm hands became characters in Oz that were foreshadowed by their Kansas personas. Other than the tornado, as a child I thought the pre-Oz part was incredibly boring and it took seemingly forever to get through that part and to the good stuff, but I eventually realized how cleverly the Kansas scenes were written.
@@TS-ev1bl Huck/Scarecrow: "think you didn't have any brains at all Dorothy!" "When you go home don't go by Ms Gultches, then Toto won't get in her garden and you won't get into trouble!" He demonstrates using his brain there. And how Zeke jumps into the pig pen to rescue Dorothy..as the Lion he would not have done that because he would have been to afraid...Hickory says "someday they are going to erect a statue for me in this town"...maybe Hickory as the Tin Man when he's unoiled is THAT statue.
Kansas:
Hunk
Hickory
Zeke
Miss Gulch
Professor Marvel
Dr. J.B. Worley
Electroshock Machine
Nurse Wilson
Hospital girl
Pumpkin
Oz:
Scarecrow
Tin Man
Lion
Wicked Witch of the West
Wizard of Oz
King Nome
Tik Tok
Mombi
Princess Ozma
Jack Pumpkin Head
@@omundodovini3774 Different kettle of fish in RtO. Ozma was Ozma, stuck in Kansas while Dr. Worley, the Nome King's agent, kept her under lock and key. Oz is real in RtO, as in the books.
Incidentally, the orderly wheeling the gurney around in the asylum was played by the same actor as played the Lead Wheeler and was the voice of the Nome spy.
Brilliant actress. Gifted.
That voice is right up there with James Earl Jones as Darth Vader.
Hamilton received an Oscar nomination for this role, but Hattie McDaniel won for Gone with the Wind. I think they both should have won. Two iconic performances that people still talk about almost 80 years later.
I met her on a NYC street in the 1970s. She lived in the Gramercy Park neighborhood. Absolutely delightful woman, hard to imagine she could portray such evil.
The nicest people play the nastiest characters. I met Dave Prowse, who played Darth Vader, and he is a really nice guy.
Dave Glo Margaret Hamilton was never nominated
Dave Glo thank you for sharing this little story with us
Dave Glo
Wrong. WTF, do people just make up crap these days?? Scroll down on this page to see nominees for 1940 up against Hattie: www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1940
Its crazy that literally everyone who worked on this film have passed away now... leaving behind a massive legacy for a masterpiece of a movie
I love wizard of oz no matter what
The Wizard called at didn’t he? He told the Tin Man, “A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
That’s why every character in the film will live forever in the hearts of humanity ❤️
The black and white scenes were tinted brown for effects.
The color part of the movie was to give it that "Over the Rainbow" effect.
It was not the first movie in color.
Not even close.
However, the Wizard of Oz is the most famous movie of all-time.
Thank you for posting this.
Margaret Hamilton was a very talented actress who played two roles in this movie to perfection.
Did you know that she was actually younger than the Good Witch, Glinda?
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It was Sepia
Yep Margaret Hamilton (1902-1985) was 18 years younger than Billie Burke (1884-1970). Billie Burke was 55 when she did this movie and Margaret Hamilton was 36 years old when she did this movie.
Hands down the greatest witch in cinema history not even Ursula the sea witch could rival the Wicked Witch of the West herself
This used to complete frighten the shit out of me. Sometimes I wouldn’t even watch the witch scenes if the conditions weren’t right haha
Margaret Hamilton was excellent as the Wicked Witch of the West. She just nailed it.
The best witch in movie history and the scariest what a performance
I loved her to👍😊😄♥️♥️♥️♥️ my she rest easy ❤️❤️💐💐
I agree she was amazing!
Me too!
@@madisoncastle5138 yes! Me too!
0:00 that theme tune never gets old
Margaret, was born, to eventually meet up with this role 🧙♀️ 🪄 🧹 ...Hamilton ...now there's a surname
If you ask me in Hollywood movie history, what actor was cast for the perfect role that no one else could've played: Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch is my #1. Had it been played by anyone else, the movie would've bombed!
The special effects were very good for a time when there was no such thing as CGI! Ms. Hamilton did a marvelous job in her portrayal of The Wicked Witch Of The West!!
Glinda, the good witch of the North. Total badass! Everyone else practically sh*tting themselves when the Wicked Witch of the West shows up. But, she's like, "Witch, please! You've got two things here: Jack and sh*t! And Jack left town. Now, be gone from here before I put a magical smackdown on you, and your day goes from bad to worse!"
3:19 I’ve always wondered why the munchkins laid flat on the ground when the witch appeared. Were the pretending to be dead? Were they doing it to show submission to her? Or were they simply afraid?
Simply afraid.
Margaret deserved an honorary Oscar for this role. Her performance and look became the witch prototype for decades to come.
Actually, she took a lot of her cues from Martha Wentworth, who was in the 1937 radio series "The Cinnamon Bear" as the Wintergreen Witch, who was green, had a nasty cackle, and called the child heroes of the story "my pretties." Wentworth is also known as the voice of Madam Mim in Disney's "The Sword in the Stone."
1939 was the pinnacle for Hollywood. From then on every movie was based upon the principles of the grand movies released that year.
Margaret Hamilton would have been just an ordinary character actress who would have been largely forgotten like so many others, IF it wasn't for this film. Now, she is a legend.
I think she'd have been remembered for her sheer volume of work, and she would have been content with that. All she wanted was a good life for herself and her son.
Elphaba
Dorothy
Fiyero
Boq
Chistery
Galinda
Any wicked fans out there?
Saw it yesterday in Dallas. I was changed for good
+Rizwan Jagani nice one
HERE!
Zenaida Reyes Well acquainted, Ozian.
Elphaba Ozite.
The film takes great liberties with Baum’s book. I’m glad, for the finished product has become one of, if not the greatest film in motion picture history.
I have a cat named Miss Gulch
Do you call her Almira?
As a child watching this in the 80s…she was my fav character
More iconic than The Wicked Witch role. She is a LEGEND.
During the "surrender Dorothy" scene, the witch was not played by Margaret Hamilton, she was actually played by a completely different woman named Betty Danko
4:17 afraid that she might meet the same fate as her late sister
She gave me realistix nightmares I recall. She certainly deserved all the awards for her portrayal.
I never realized when I was younger that Toto was gonna be killed.
What did you make of Miss Gulch's line, "I'm taking him to the sheriff and make sure he's destroyed?"
1:18 it was like Margaret had to double check like “is that the order of my shopping list?”
Lol yess
Is it just me or is every line she says a threat.
You can't argue with with Miss Gulch - Toto was a menace. At the very least he should have been wearing a muzzle in public to prevent such injuries.
As for Uncle Henry, he was about as useful as a chocolate teapot. 😂
Ruby Deagle was basically the "Gremlins" equivalent of Almira Gulch. So I figure that Ruby Deagle was inspired by this "Wizard of Oz" character.
Very possibly. Polly Holliday has played other witchy roles and she can really do justice. That's what talent is -- playing good people, bad people, people-in-between ...
"My little pretty" "My fine lady" "My beauty" XDDDDDDDDDD
Yes, repressed Victorian crypto-lesbian-speak. Leering at Dorothy. LOL.
@@robsieger1886 Don't be gross.
She called the whole team "my beauties" when she cast the spell over the Poppy Field.
The music in this film throughout is so fantastic
Margaret Hamilton made me believe witches were real and scary.
The ironic thing is that Margaret Hamilton was actually the only person who was nice to Judy garland when filming the wizard of oz and was actually said to be incredibly kind, modest, genuine and charming in person because of how nice she was to everyone
Love of all movies!!! They could never make a remake of this.
At 7:49 when the witch says she sent an insect to take the fight out of them, that is a reference to the Jitterbug dance sequence that was omitted from the final version of the movie. The jitterbug was of course a popular dance craze at the time.
How Margaret Hamilton didn’t win an Oscar for this iconic performance blows my mind
"unless you wanna go against the laaww!"
Wizard of oz my favorite movie when frist was born made 1939 Wicked which west she scared me with her laugh but is my favorite movie that my family
She's so great. I love her.
And the award for “Favorite Movie Villain” goes to....Margaret Hamilton
This woman scared me so much as a little girl...and the music too..
i heard she appeared as a witch on sesame street, and that it frighten the kids who were watching so much so, that it was no longer allowed to be viewed or seen again on tv.
Why didn't Miss Hamilton at least receive a nomination for an Academy Award for her role.......she is a classic, a wonderful actress.
Not only should she have been nominated, but she should have won an Oscar for her portrayal in that film.
Sure you’re right.
it takes so much talent to hate a character like her! splendid actress!
The only problem I have with the wizard of oz is that Margaret Hamilton should have won an Oscar
Damned straight. She was THE best thing in that movie.
A Supporting Actress Oscar depends on screen time, and Miss Hamilton didn't have enough to qualify.
@@MaskedMan66:
Oscars are bullshit anyway, and qualifying time to receive an Oscar or not, she was still the best thing in that movie.
@@jaelge They are now, but they weren't then, and rules was rules. Judy was the best thing in that movie, as Miss Hamilton often said.
Amazing every word in that sentence was wrong… Judy garland was the only was that deserved any type of award for this movie how they treated her!!!
The irony thing is Margaret Hamilton's portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West would scare generations of children, yet in real life she was a former kindergarten teacher and deeply loved children.
Most villains are played by people who are nice in real life. :-) One of the nicest people I've ever met was Jacqueline Pearce, who played a murderous megalomaniac named Servalan in a sci-fi series called "Blake's 7."
And don't forget Carroll O'Conner from All in the Family. He was Archie Bunker and he always talking with his messed up English. In real life he had a masters degree in English. Go Figure.
Charles Moskowitz
That's what we call acting! :-)
MaskedMan66
Ya Really. I have to send a message to the one who put this video up. They forgot the most famous scene when Dorothy threw water on Scarecrow and some of hit The Witch and she melted.
+MaskedMan66 At the theatre company I take classes at my director is a super nice woman and she's played the wicked witch, Miss Hannigan, the evil queen from Snow White (they wrote their own musical of it), Carabosse (they also wrote a Sleeping Beauty musical, Mrs. Lovett, and the witch from Into the Woods, they're doing The Little Mermaid soon and I think she'll be Ursula
Nothing surpasses her portrayal of a witch in cinema, at least in my mind, she is the most iconic and well performed witch of all time
You mean a wicked witch. There are also good ones. ;-)
A small detail I watch for in the movie, when Dorothy dreams Ms. Gulch turns into the flying witch in her window, right at the moment when the witch laughs, she tilts her head back, which makes her so bad-assed! Look for it, and it will make you grin big time!
Margret Hamilton in real life, was the nicest, sweetest angel of a lady you could ever meet.
@@mobydick3895 Unless it frightens the life out of you!
@@dapperdonny4051 It's a funny thing, but most actors and actresses who play villains are very nice people in real life.
My grandma says she met Margret Hamilton in the 50's and says she was the nicest person ever, it takes real talent for a nice person to play evil
Yeah I bet but what about the 1940’s ❤
Omg that’s awesome
@@MaryRudac What about 'em?
@@skysautter8240 yeah it sure is aww
@@MaryRudac ikr
Margaret played such a iconic villain, and I love that forshadowing line where Dorothy calls her a wicked witch.
Yes Margaret played such a iconic villain, and I love that foreshadowing as well where Dorothy calls her a wicked witch.
The movie is brilliance from conception to every reverberating recess of the theatrical cosmos.
@@elib12 Is there an echo in here?
Oh if she was like that towards my kitty I'd call her much worse...like that word that rhymes with bunt!!
The greatest witch there ever was and ever will be. She scared the hell out of me as a kid, and as a 55 year old, I still find her scary.
Her and Maleficent (not the Jolie version)
me too. very important work of filmography. I have met many women over the years who reminded me of her and they always turned out to have the same personality as her and were trying to hurt people. Problem is the ones in real life were really hurting kids and women.
Scary, and cruel too! So cruel that when she was destroyed, her own guards were happy she was dead!
@@thomasromano9321 There was dancing in the streets.
YES
Judy Garland later stated being scared of Hamilton was difficult as Hamilton was such a kind person.
It was the same with Carrie Fisher in the first _Star Wars_ movie when she had to act like she hated Peter Cushing; she loved him dearly.
Judy was actually snubbed by all the adults on set during filming. Margaret was her only friend.
@@FaytLinegod Wrong. I mean, come on, *why* would she have been snubbed?? Seriously.
Here's the truth: Judy charmed everyone, especially her three co-stars, not to mention director Victor Fleming and producer Mervyn LeRoy, who was Judy's biggest fan and fought to star her in the film when studio heads still thought she wasn't ready to play the lead in a movie.
Judy had previously worked with Billie Burke, Jack Haley, and Buddy Ebsen, so she was already friends with them. It didn't take any time at all for her to make friends with Bolger, Lahr, Morgan, and Miss Hamilton.
She was whipsmart and able to memorize lines very quickly, and having grown up in vaudeville, she was easily able to relate to people older than she was. She was quickly accepted into Lahr, Haley, and Bolger's circle, and even became both victim and instigator of the practical jokes that particular team loved to pull on each other.
Judy Garland shouldn’t be scared of Margaret Hamilton because of her Character she played…but without the makeup she had to play the character Miss Gultch
I just read an article on this. Judy Garland wasn't allowed to eat anything other than chicken soup or black coffee because they wanted to keep her looking young. To suppress her appetite she was forced to smoke UP TO 80 CIGARETTES A DAY AT 16 YEARS OLD. That's just awful. Margaret Hamilton plays the villain in the movie but in real life she was the total opposite. Truth is stranger than fiction.
NOBODY could play this role better! Her creepy laugh is phenomenal!
Everyone in the movie was perfectly cast. ..but yeah, the witch is especially the best wicked witch of all time.
Hannah Welsh everything about this role, especially the creepy laugh, is iconic!
She scared me as a little kid. I remember ready that her acting was so good they had to cut off several scenes because of how scary she was.
I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too
I dunno!!!! Check out this video below and go to 30:43 !!!!
She definitely could have given this one a run for her money 😂
ruclips.net/video/dj-VsjJ31wI/видео.html
Margaret Hamilton loved children and was even a kindergarten teacher for a while.
She taught Jim Backus (Mr Howell on Gilligan's Island) when he was a child. Considering how old he was when on Gilligan's Island. She taught in the Cleveland Ohio School System back in the 1930's.
Rob Yohn that was William Windom who had her in Kindergarten- Commodore Decker from the Planet Eater from Star Trek original series.
@21st Century Renaissance Man Because they knew her as Miss Hamilton first and an actress second.
That's what I heard
@@robyohn8968 In real life, Hamilton was only about a dozen years older than Backus.
I say the fun irony of this character is that she’s wicked and hates Dorothy, yet behind the scenes she was literally the nicest woman ever and she was the only support for Judy Garland when she was going through a hard time.
Sha was actually a school teacher.
Judy was not going through a hard time; playing Dorothy Gale was a dream come true for her, and she got along with everybody; she had worked with Billie Burke, Buddy Ebsen, and Jack Haley already, and quickly made friends with Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and all the rest. Making the movie was hard work, she would have liked to eat more at mealtimes, and her corset was uncomfortable, but that's about as "bad" as she had it.
@@MaskedMan66 I’m not saying she didn’t like making this movie, and yes she should have eaten more, but she was being harassed by munkins, the director slapped her for laughing, and plus the rest of the cast had worse injuries. Ray was suffocating in his rubber mask, Buddy was replaced because of the toxic makeup, Jack had to sleep right side up in his costume on his break, Margaret had third degree burns, and a munkin hung himself (yet that last one is still a conspiracy) and Burt wasn’t allowed to eat and his costume was 300 pounds and made of real lions skin
@@b.radleypro.369 No, she should not have eaten more, because she was in the habit of eating too much, and she knew that and wanted to trim down.
Judy was not being harassed by anybody.
Victor Fleming did not slap her for laughing, he slapped her because the laughing fit she was having (and she constantly got the giggles) had ruined several takes and the studio was fast approaching closing time. He hated having to do it, and she forgave him. Case closed.
Nobody ever said that moviemaking was easy, and the cast were all well aware of that.
Ray dealt with his make-up, because he loved being the Scarecrow, which was his lifelong ambition.
Buddy's make-up was not toxic, it's that the aluminum powder got into the air and then into his lungs, where it kicked off a bronchial condition he had.
Jack reclined on a leaning board (much as did Anthony Daniels when he played See-Threepio in the "Star Wars" movies), and that was a good thing, as it took the weight off of his feet and allowed him to relax.
Yes, Miss Hamilton had third degree burns on her right hand, but she healed and got on with her job, which she loved.
Nobody hanged himself (it's not a conspiracy, it's a stupid urban myth dreamed up by some yutz in the 1970's).
Bert was allowed to eat, but tended to opt for milkshakes so he wouldn't damage his make-up. His costume was SEVENTY pounds and it's no big deal that it was made of lionskin, since people have been wearing animal skins, fur, and other bits since we've been wearing anything.
@@b.radleypro.369 Don't forget that the director has Garland smoke up to 80 cigarettes a day to keep her from "getting fat". Behind the scenes this movie was not so much fun. But yes, Margaret Hamilton adored children and was indeed a very sweet woman.
She was the real star of the film . Wouldn’t be worth watching without her.
They were all stars, but Judy Garland carried it, as Miss Hamilton would be the first to tell you.
I've seen many movie witches but Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West will always be #1 for me.
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Hillary Clinton is better
Take a chill pill daddy- oo
she even better zelena from ouat but the original are always the best
What about Bette Midler in Hocus Pocus? I think she's #1, she's amazing!
Her "NO!" after Dorothy asks if she can still have her dog always cracks me up. 😂 That and her "Catch him, you fool!" lmao
Same. She said it with her chest.
"you go away or I'll bite you myself" hahaha, that's right Dorothy get her lol
+Elena DI RUVO I know right lol
+Elena DI RUVO In the 30s yes, but right now I think this is one of Dorothy's awesome moments. I just wonder where the hell that attitude went when Glinda told her she could go home any time she wanted.
+Shanethefilmmaker What do you mean?
@Elena DI RUVO "Hilarious" means, very "funny."
@@Shanethefilmmaker At Munchkinland first whisk of ruby slippers to Dorothy's feet, Glinda manipulatively withheld from Dorothy the shoes' full operating instructions. But had Glinda told D that D could in three shoe taps be back in Kansas, movie over.
The Wicked Witch scared the piss outta me when I was a kid and watched it every year on CBS. When I got older, I realized I was terrified back then because of Margaret Hamilton’s amazing talents. She set the evil witch bar so high that it’ll never be touched by anyone. Finding out later that she was a sweetheart who adored children made me love and appreciate her even more.
Scared me too, especially the crystal ball scene. Her cackle was a nightmare.
Miss Hamilton actually took a lot of her cues from Martha Wentworth, who played the Wintergreen Witch in the 1937 radio series _The Cinnamon Bear._ That character was green, cackled a lot, and called the child heroes of the series "my pretties."
Yeah, I know.
Simply love the line when she says "Well my little pretty, i can cause accidents too!" and then i imagine her throwing fireballs around all Munchkinland xD
+FrozenxFairytale Except that she can't when she's there.
FrozenxFairytale rrrrr
I love the quote I’ll get my pretty and your little dog to ah hahaha and I’m melting melting
Yeah, thinking of the sorts of "Accidents" that she likely caused all over Oz before Dorothy came is pretty disturbing.
+Adamguy2003 Not all over Oz; the Good Witches defended the North and South. Her power was confined to the Winkie Country. But she certainly did enough damage there.
The original Karen! Poor little Toto!
The fact that in roughly 10 minutes of screen time, she made this character an ICON shows how amazing Hamilton was.
Best witch period!
Twelve minutes; the same screen time that Dave Prowse had as Darth Vader in the first _Star Wars_ movie!
Poor Toto? Poor Miss Gulch! That leg wound could have turned nasty. She may have ended up losing a leg. Shame on Dorothy for letting her dog do that. Toto could have attacked Aunt Em! 😂
@@andrewmurray5542 There's no way a bite from a tiny dog like that would have led to amputation. Toto would not have attacked Aunt Em. "Gentle with gentle people," remember?
😊 I'm glad that her dog was okay 😊 this movie is very interesting but it's very good 😊
@@andrewmurray5542he's a cairn terrier not a rottweiler lol
I met Margaret Hamilton when I was a kid. She was a absolute sweetheart
You’re right!
You’re right oh okay 👍 that’s cool yes she was a absolute sweetheart
@@madisoncastle5138 she’s right!
OMG, lucky you! ^_^
Margaret Hamilton was so awesome! Probably one of the sweetest actresses in Hollywood, but she could be so very, very bad when she wanted to!
"For 23 years, I've been dying to tell you what I've thought of you, and now, well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!"
BURN
But I always thought: “ Just say it. She deserves it!!!”
"You mean she bit 'ya?"
"No. Her dog."
"Ohhhhh...she bit her dog, eh?"
Probably one of my favorite lines in the movie. Great acting, too.
“…….No!” 😂😂😂😂😂
Charley Grapewin really doesn't get enough accolades for his work on the film. The way Henry is totally unimpressed by Miss Gulch's imperiousness is hilarious.
The scene where Gulch turns into the Wicked Witch in the twister always scared me as a kid
That part scared me when I was little
Me too
@@purplecat3130 same
As a kid, I really only thought of the dream sequence as after the tornado picked up the house, but actually she only dreams the tornado picks up the house, and this is confusing slightly because the whole "pre-munchkinland" section of the film is made to look like there is no color, which then ends when munchkinland begins. But the dream begins before the house is picked up by the tornado. It is kind of a cinematic trick to make you think the house really was picked up by the tornado. Because at the end, you know, the house is where it always was. As a five year old I was just overwhelmed by the whole movie!
@@madisoncastle5138 yes me too
Looming back at her performance, Margaret Hamilton's portrayal of the Wicked Witch was genius and iconically legendary. God bless her for some of the best memories of my childhood !
Her performance is oscar worthy, she should have won one. The best witch ever...
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I always wondered why she was so evil over the beautiful ruby slippers
Margaret Hamilton was perfect for this role! Nobody could have been better...❤
If MTG had come along sooner and read for the part, she would have been deemed TOO wicked for the youngsters in the audience.
@@billboyle1588 Who?
best female antagonist ever, no questions about it
Better than Dodge?
@@devynthomas8988 Who?
@@MaskedMan66 You seen Locke & Key?
@@devynthomas8988 No, just the covers of the graphic novels.
@@MaskedMan66 She's a bit cliched in the books but Netflix made her a legend.
Fun Fact: In real-life since Margaret Hamilton’s green copper based makeup was so toxic that she had to be on a strict diet for filming and only allowed to have small bites of food and only liquids too. She also after each day of filming had to make sure the makeup was fully removed from her skin before she could go home.💗☺️
The copper was only toxic when it was on fire; otherwise people wouldn't wear copper jewelry. Anybody wearing make-up tends to eat carefully, or not at all; many just rely on liquid nourishment.
Yeah! Margaret thought she’s ashamed of herself, get it?
How do you know that ? The movie was made in 1939. Did you read it somewhere or something ? 😕
@@childhooddreamer6975 yes I read it online multiple times
@@childhooddreamer6975 It's a well-known fact that this movie's production was a terrible.
Anyone studying acting should study this film frame by frame.
What a divine work of American art.
One of our great national myths, fables......
I agree. Masterpiece.