Judy Garland & Margaret Hamilton’s Real Life Oz Friendship Defied Gravity
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2024
- In real life Margaret Hamilton was nurturing and warm to the young Judy Galand while they worked together making The Wizard of Oz.
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It gives me great joy knowing they were friends! Poor Margaret was probably heckled in public for being the bad witch! Impeccable casting in Wizard.
Miss Hamilton had been a longtime character actress and she'd recall that her agent called her to let her know she was in 'Wizard of Oz' and added 'as the witch! What else?'! She also later played Morticia (and Ophelia's) mother Grandmama Esther Frump on 'The Addams Family' and Cora the Maxwell House Storekeeper!
Margaret Hamilton (along with everyone else in that movie) was simply born to play her role in The Wizard of Oz. She was sublime.
Let's not forget that Miss Hamilton had started out as . ..a kindergarten teacher! Well, she and Miss Garland both got put through the mill making that movie. Miss Garland being under incredible pressure from Mr. Mayer and her own female parent . .and I'll leave it at that while Miss Hamilton got badly burned when the WW of the West 'disappeared' in a pall of black smoke which wound up scorching her and nearly caused the copper based green makeup to eat into her literal skin and bones. Miss Hamilton was out for six weeks but she came back to work afterwards and decided against attempting any lawsuit since she knew that performers who did so often got blackballed from working in films again- and she was the sole support of her five-year-old son!
Of course, it's rather sad to think that roughly a year after she and Miss Hamilton were reunited in that talk show, Miss Garland had a rather unsettling death. Still, these two ladies became and stayed friends.
BTW, later on Miss Hamilton traded notes and became friends with a Saturday morning kids' show performer- Billie Hayes who played Witchiepoo in 'H.R. Pufnstuff' as a still menacing but somewhat broader witch than the WW of the West. Interestingly enough, there was an early episode in which the protagonist boy Jimmy got rescued from Witchiepoo by a character called . ... Judy Frog! Yep, Miss Frog sounded a great deal like Miss Garland (whom Sid Krofft himself had worked with) and it wasn't long after Miss Garland's passing in 1969 that this show first aired!
The incident where Margaret was badly burned is a horrifying story. I mentioned it a video I did a few months ago. It was appalling how poorly MGM treated her and would not even have someone drive her home after the accident. Thank you for your additional incite.
@@ChuckDransfield That's horrible! I didn't know that they were so callous as to not bother to drive the injured performer home. ..or get her to the hospital! Did she have to somehow take a taxi. . .or drive herself despite her condition? I'll have to check out that video of yours ! Thanks for the info!
Aside from a brief reunion on the Merv Griffin show in the winter of 1968, if they were ever together at the same place at the same time, it was never documented or photographed... to my knowledge, anyway. It's nice to think they were friends, but no two women could have been more different.
I had read in a biography of Judy they had a brief reunion during the 1940s on an MGM soundstage where one of them was working at the time. Unfortunately, nothing is documented to prove this.
@@ChuckDransfield I'm sure the two women crossed paths more than once on the vast MGM lot, going from one department and set to another. But I wouldn't necessarily call any time they bumped into each other a "reunion." I am very dubious they were friends, as the word "friends" is commonly defined and used.