I believe there was a story about when Judy was on the set, and she was laughing uncontrollably over Toto, that Louis B. Mayer(I think that's who it was), or one of the directors slapped Judy across the face to get her to pull herself together and to stop acting silly.
Josh Wood originally buddy ebsen was cast as the tin man he was the one that had a bad reaction to the makeup and he had to be replaced with jack Haley
When Judy Garland heard of Bert Lahr's death while about to perform on stage, she was devastated and she sang "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" in dedication to Bert. And onset occasion, she referred to him as "My beloved Cowardly Lion". I have to admit, even if Judy Garland had some problems of her own, she had such a genuine heart. RIP, Judy and Bert over the rainbow. And the other two: Ray Bolger and Jack Haley.
True that. She had her demons but in everything I've read of her and countless documentaries I've seen everyone always says that she was a loving person and had a crazy sense of humor. I don't think she felt racism or homophobia toward anyone (discrimination was common when she was alive). She was always friendly and funny with fellows stars like Lena Horne, Sammy Davis, Jr., Barbra Streisand, etc. Judy was no saint and she was ever so human. Maybe that's why we identify with her so much.
There have been so many incredibly bad decisions made by the executives of movie studios. Star Wars was almost shut down several times because it was over budget and behind schedule. Cutting Somewhere over the Rainbow would have easily been the worst of them all though.
@@SillyCreatureSally you realize that back in the past of 2005, I was at Hawthorne Suites in Conyers, GA, watching The Wizard Of Oz, before 12:00 a.m. on the little TV, while my mom’s out shopping at Walmart, and I was about to get sleepy, but guess what? I’m not sleepy yet; I was STILL playing Mario Kart: Double Dash!! on the Nintendo Gamecube, since I’m gonna be able to finish playing that game.
@@sophiadilworth885 It was debunked. Someone edited it in over a bird that was in the same place. Besides, the trees and foreground weren't even real, they were painted on, so there wasn't even anything for the munchkin to hang himself on. Explain that, please.
@PenguinxII G If you mean illicit drugs that are now illegal, no. A doctor prescribed a course of normal medicinal stimulants to wake Judy up and depressants to calm her down. This was done with many actors in those days to get them through rigorous shooting schedules. Not that her job on _Wizard_ was particularly rigorous; as she was still a minor, she only worked for four hours a day, and the only meds she used was an appetite suppressant that you can still get today.
Dark facts about the movie: This movie was filled with exiperimental makeup which caused half of the actors to die. The munchkins stocked there hands up Judie’s dress they even needed to get someone to watch for it due to them getting out of control. Did I tell you the munchkins are 32 and plus while Judy was 20 and less? The with got burned 2 times before she died. The person who made the movie slapped Judy Garland when she was giggling to much at a scene. But he was nice and let the whole crew slap him for that. There’s a part in the movie where there is a hanging munchkin in the background even making one of the cast members looking off camera. They said it was just a bird and they made it look like that in the remastered version. The dog got paid then the munchkins. This movie is 81 years old. I apologize for any mistakes in this comment I am a kid and I and kind of good at spelling?
It just feels so incredible how such a colorful bright high budget looking film is from frickin '39. 1939! That's the 30's late 30's! They built so good sets, they used such good special effects for the time being, it just looks like it was made in the 70's or something!
It was made the same year my grandma was born. She was born in June. The wizard of oz was my absolute favourite movie as a kid. My grandma has it on vhs and I watched it so much that I wore out the tape. I was obsessed. It’s still is to this day
Back in the past of 2005, I was at Hawthorne Suites watching “The Wizard Of Oz,” before 12:00 a.m. on the little TV, while my mom’s out shopping in Walmart, and I was about to get sleepy, but I’m not sleepy yet; I was STILL playing “Mario Kart: Double Dash!!” on the Nintendo Gamecube at 11:45 p.m., since I’m gonna be able to finish playing that game, BEFORE my bedtime.
I think what made this movie awesome is the fact it was made in 1939 and the special effects and great picture was still top of its line into the late 90's!!!!
The wizard of oz is such a wonderful classic and has not only an amazing cast of actors but a great storyline and amazing effects. The effects that went into this are magnificent and the effort shines through the screen every time I watch this film. This is the one movie I want modern hollywood to keep their grubby little remake hands off this film. ITS EXACTLY HOW IT SHOULD REMAIN WITHOUT A CGI GLAM UPDATE!!!!
The reprise of Ding Dong The Witch is Dead in Emerald City, is the one deleted scene I wish had stayed in the film or I just wish sadly still survived, only a few seconds of footage of that scene surviving the trailer.
i remember The wizard of oz i remember watching the wizard of oz with my family when i was a little boy i was also raised with the wizard of oz we all grew up with the wizard of oz
@superbowserlogan Dorothy Gale did not have any of that done to her, nor did Judy Garland, the actress who played her. The Singer Midgets were just people, especially the American contingent (the core group was Austrian and German), who were mostly everyday people from everyday jobs. They were all thrilled to be in a big Hollywood movie, and had no intention of ricking getting fired for mistreating the star. Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Coroner, summed up the relationship between Judy and the Singer Midgets when he told Oz historians, "We were treated as equals by her. She would sit on the steps on the set with the rest of us and chat every day." Judy was given no diet pills; in order to trim her curves (because she was very well-developed by the age of sixteen) she was on a reduced food intake diet and she went hiking and swimming with her stuntwoman Bobbie Koshay. Also, just being on the sets with the blazing hot lights was bound to make anyone shed a pound or two. Judy was flatly against smoking at that time in her life. In an interview given in 1938, she announced that she would never smoke or drink. Sadly, she did both in her adult years, but never as a teen. I mean, use your intelligence: what point would there have been to it? The "hanging Munhckin" story was cooked up by some nit in the 1970's who wasn't aware that when the scene in question was filmed, the Singer Midgets were not even at MGM, and would not be until a week later. People now try to claim that when the movie was put on DVD, they edited in a bird over the "body," but the bird was there on the set in 1938, and can be seen at other points in the Tin Woodman's introductory scene. Retakes are inevitable, especially in such a complex film, and Victor Fleming certainly did "favor" them, because he liked to give the film editor (in this case, Blanche Sewell) a good choice.
@superbowserlogan Everything I've already written militates against all of that crap. Judy Garland never said anything about it (what's your source that she did?). Smoking doesn't help toward weight loss; I know, I've seen many fat smokers. And like I already said, Judy already said in 1938 (in a quote in the book "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Oz historians Jay Scarfone and William Stillman) her aim was never to smoke. The story of the body on the set is entirely bogus. There were dozens of people, close to a hundred, maybe, on that sound stage keeping an eye on everything. It would have been impossible for anyone do do anything without being seen. It's a stupid urban myth and nothing more. I watched the very first VHS tape ever sold in stores. It was the same movie you see on DVD and Blu-ray today, the same movie that showed on T.V. for decades beginning in 1956, and it's the same movie that audiences saw in 1939. It has not been altered; you don't do that to a classic. Again, the Singer Midgets were just people, not animals. You might as well accuse the full sized extras in the movie of maltreating Judy; it would be just as baseless. Had anyone tried anything with his "Judalein," Fleming would have kicked them out of the studio, possibly literally. Judy, as a minor, only worked an eight-hour day, and a good chunk of that time was given to being tutored, along with her stand-in Caren Marsh-Doll, at the studio school. That being the case, there was no need for any pills of any kind to alter her consciousness. I've done over 30 years of research, friend. Frankly, you need to do some, by which I mean going to reliable, reputable sources and not just latching on to unfounded rumor. The best sources are these books: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" by Aljean Harmetz, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman, and the aforementioned "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Scarfone and Stillman.
@superbowserlogan You didn't prove anything; you just spewed a lot of lies. If you don't want to read my comment, that means you don't want to know the truth as set down by people who have been Oz researchers for decades. Read these books: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" by Aljean Harmetz, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman, and the aforementioned "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Scarfone and Stillman.
Ever since I was a kid there was just something about this movie that gave me an eerie feeling. To this day when I watch it I still feel it, but I love the movie.
Wonderful video. I learned a lot about the characters from the Wizard of Oz. I am playing 4 of the songs in a concert/sing along the end of Oct and bought a songbook with the Jitterbug song, but never heard anyone do even a portion of it until I saw this video. -Kevin (Flutist for over 40 years)
I'd like to list where each bumper starts: 1. Cut 'Over the Rainbow'? 0:01 2. Special Effects 1:01 3. The Scarecrow and a Deleted Dance 2:03 4. The Tinman 3:41 5. The Directors 4:57 6. Problems with Costumes and Makeup 6:11 7. Lost Song and Dance 7:44 8. The Wizard's Many Roles 8:57 And the conclusion is at 9:36
The directors forced her to smoke 80 cigarettes a day ..... no wonder she died at 47 they were absolute monsters everyone in the cast of this movie suffered Not to mention the one who committed suicide while they were filming
I really enjoyed this rare footage well done with everything with the costume special effects and my favorite thing is that the fire and the melting of the witch
The Jitterbug may be removed from the movie, but to my knowledge it was never removed from the stage version. But then, the stage version came way after the movie, didn't it. I do wish they kept this song in the movie. It was quite fun. (IMO) 9:32 Yep, the sentry with his weeping eyebrows! XD
There have been various stage adaptations, and many of them have used "The Jitterbug." The one most often performed is the 1988 adaptation by England's Royal Shakespeare Company (I've been in that one three times, the third time as the Cowardly Lion), which follows the movie script very closely. Another in the Muny version ("Muny" is the nickname of the St. Louis Municipal Opera), which uses the MGM songs, but otherwise is a different adaptation and has an additional song, "North Star," that Dorothy sings at the Emerald City. In that version, the team is attacked by the Jitterbug shortly after the Cowardly Lion has joined the team.
My dad would send me to bed the part where old lady was on her bike took dog away with information stating shes allowd to take the dog put her to sleep because Tarri went after her nasty cat I thought dog was going be put down I'm glad she got away and never died in the movie great movie I usto cry at that same part every year
Despite playing bitter enemies in this movie, Judy Garland became great friends with Margaret Hamilton during the making of this movie. There is famous story that when Garland was to go to her prom and already picked a dress and all, she was told by MGM that she will go on the tour with Mickey Rooney instead and miss the prom. When Hamilton heard about this, she phoned MGM boss Louis B. Mayer and yelled at him. Likewise, despite also playing bitter enemies in this movie, Ray Bolger and Margaret Hamilton were lifelong good friends. It was Bolger who delivered eulogy at Hamilton's funeral in 1983, which turned out to be Bolger's final public appearance before his death in 1986. There is also another legend that says that Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr hated working with Judy Garland. Supposedly, they had nothing against her personally, but all three being established actors and stars they hated being supporting characters to a teenage girl. Some say that Bolger originally lobbied hard for Shirley Temple, with whose parents he was a good friend and also because Temple was the biggest child star at the time. However, the same legend says that by the end of the shooting they did change their minds. One person in the cast about whom all agreed that was the nicest was Frank Morgan. Despite Morgan's problems with alcohol were well known at the time, the rest of the cast said that he was completely sober during the entire shooting and was an amazing professional, despite being one of the last main actors cast as the role was originally first offered to W.C. Fields and then to Ed Wynn, who both declined.
The first two stories are not true. It wasn't a matter of a prom, it was about Judy's graduation, which took place the year after _Wizard,_ and she had no problems in that regard, certainly nothing that required aid from Margaret Hamilton, who was not the kind of person to yell at studio executives. Bolger, Haley, and Lahr were indeed very well-established performers and had had much success. They were also not primo uomos, and had no problem being part of an ensemble. For his part, Bolger was in heaven to be playing his dream role of the Scarecrow of Oz. Frank Morgan always had a case with him which was basically a portable bar; but he could hold his liquor and even if he was a bit tipsy, he was always "on" as soon as it came time to work, so he certainly gave the appearance of being sober.
@@MaskedMan66 First of all, prom or graduation it is basically same thing in Serbia. Other than that, thank you for correction. Second of all, I said there exists a story about Bolger, Haley and Lahr not liking to work with a teenage girl. I never said it is 100% true. Honestly, I myself do not believe in it. Third of all, there is no doubt that Morgan was heavy alcoholic, but many cast members claimed that while he did carry the case with booze around he never once came drunk to the set when he was filming. All said many times that despite his personal problems with alcohol he was tremendous professional and they all enjoyed working with him. They also said that, despite being by far the most known actor in the movie at the time, he was extremely professional with others who were mostly unknown or not well known actors, but have all become famous after this movie.
@@MaskedMan66 Oh, it has been confirmed by numerous people that Hamilton did yell at Meyer into the telephone. For some reason, despite being well known for holding grudges, Meyer never punished Hamilton for it in any way.
@@MaskedMan66 Oh, and I don't know if Bolger pushing for Shirley Temple story was true, but the story does exist and it is the fact that Bolger was a friend of her parents. Again, not claiming it is a true story.
@@miroslavtomic7038 She wasn't in Serbia, she was in California. And you're welcome. 🙂 Judy's co-stars all loved her. Haley had worked with her already on a movie called _Pigskin Parade,_ so they were already friends. Frank Morgan's professionalism was legendary, and people loved to work with him as well; Margaret Hamilton and he worked on more than one movie together, and she was always full of praise for him. Frankly, I think he doesn't get nearly as much attention for this movie as he deserves. The only relative unknown in _Wizard_ was Judy; otherwise it was an all-star cast.
the scarecrow's dance sequence that was cut from the movie....i think that was a good call....it's long and awkward/fake looking....it would take a huge amount of "suspension of disbelief" for me to enjoy it.
The final cut was one hour and forty one minutes, 101 minutes, at the time children's movies ran around 90 minutes. Lowe's theaters wanted the movie around 90 minutes so they could get another showing every day. This movie was not seen by MGM as a serious adult movie or musical which could run much longer. In the days of a nickel admission, the movie didn't turn a profit after marketing expenses on its first release. Not until after the war in its second release did it show a profit. This movie was not the studio's attempt of the popular book Wizard of Oz, but MGM spent the resources to film a classic, maybe just a tad too much back then... But MGM knew there would be more releases if they turned out a classic. Since MGM was into musicals their musical producers insisted on keeping the 3 minute song Over the Rainbow since Judy performed excellently. However, Mayer insisted after the first black and white reel, the second reel would reveal Oz in color. A lot of dance and song numbers were cut, a little here and there throughout the film. There was a lot of pressure on the length of the movie. At the pre screening at San Luis Obispo, the studio fought over the song, but since those who saw the film liked the song the most, kept it in the film...
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Thaanks for sharing this. We were invited over to watch The Wizard of Oz on the first color TV in the neighborhood. I could not believe the witch was GREEN! And I didn't know the beginning and ending of the movie was black and white with the middle part in color. Thanks again.
+Flashlight As Vincent Price once said, "Age is a matter of what you've got going on in your head." And Jerry Maren has all his marbles and a zest for life.
@@rachaelthai Terry wasn't paid anything; her trainer, Carl Spitz, who ran a school for animal trainers and also kept a kennel, was the one who received a salary, which was more than the extras got, but not as much as most of the starring cast. And JUDY most certainly cared about Terry's well-being; she had become very attached to her "Toto," and even asked Spitz if she could adopt her (even though she already had two dogs). But Terry had her career in front of her, so they had to part company.
@Derangedxzombie Judy died young because of an overdose of barbiturates. The others lived to ripe old ages (for people of their generation); Bert Lahr was 72 when he died, Jack Haley was 81, and Ray Bolger was 83. Their deaths had nothing whatsoever to do with the "asbestos" snow, which was actually crushed gypsum.
@@rachelberrythegleequeen.3221 Oh, no! Mervyn LeRoy, the producer, always saw it as a starring vehicle for Judy, because he'd heard her sing and was blown away by this youngster with such a powerful, mature voice. Other people at MGM suggested Shirley, as she was closer to the age of the literary Dorothy, but LeRoy was adamant; it was Judy or no-one. The only person he would have even considered was Deanna Durbin, and she was really too uptown to play a farm girl. Having said that, "Over the Rainbow" would still have been composed.
Its really not, they used real fire and burned this women, and the makeup burned permanently damaged their skin, they forced judy or dorthy to take pills to make her skinny which killed her later on cause she became addicted, they had to recast the tinman because one of them got so injured from the makeup. Theres asbestos in the snow, despite rumours NO A MUNCHKIN DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE. but the munchkins and directors did molest and assault sexually and physically towards dorthy, she was also bullied by other cast members for "stealing the spotlight". The lion was forced to wear pounds and pounds of costume, and couldnt sit down for hours or eat so they makeup wouldnt mess up.
@@mirroredrumor what really did happen to the munchkin? I'm Really curious. Some said he committed suicide on a scene and was changed during the remastered.
The times where they smile backstage they knew they where being filmed so they had to look happy but let me tell you they werent and it was a torture being on set and they gave some of them drugs
They never made any secret of the fact that it was a very hard job; any movie was in those days and most movies are now. But only Judy, as far as we know, had meds that she took on an as-needed basis, and that had begun years before "Wizard."
@@MaskedMan66, I was at Hawthorne Suites watching The Wizard Of Oz, before 12:00 a.m. on the little TV, while my mom’s out shopping, and I was about to get sleepy, but I’m not sleepy yet; I was STILL playing Mario Kart: Double Dash!! on the Nintendo Gamecube, since I’m gonna be able to finish playing that game.
I think you mean "no one else could have played it better." ;-) Well, we'd never have known if Buddy Ebsen had stayed in the part, but watching the movie as it is now, you'd never think that Haley was an eleventh-hour replacement; he played it perfectly.
The movie is not dark, and Judy Garland would insist you let them watch it. She loved it for the rest of her life, and so did everyone who worked on it.
@@higuy1650 She hated some of her circumstances, but she loved her children, her friends, performing for an appreciative audience, and various other aspects of her life. So like just about anybody, she had her good times and bad times. One thing she adored was her connection with "Wizard"; why else would she have reprised the role of Dorothy on the radio in 1950 and made "Over the Rainbow" her personal anthem?
Dorothy whispered that she preferred the Scarecrow, but I always loved the Tin Man. His heartfelt emotions, even before he got his "ticker," made me cherish him, "my sentimental friend." And Jack Haley, unmasked, was one good-looking man.
@@MaskedMan66 no she didn't whisper it , but I think most people assume "I'll miss you the most" means "because I love you best." When they aren't pictured all four together (Dorothy, scarecrow, tinman, and lion), ever notice how it's always Dorothy and Scarecrow? Ever go to a Halloween party and see someone dressed as Dorothy there with a tin man? No, shes with scarecrow because HES HER FAVORITE. lmao. I cant believe I'm debating who is a fictional character's favorite other fictional character from a movie made over 70 years ago,.... at 8:26 am. I haven't even had coffee yet.
@Another Little Piece of My Art I don't know about "most people," but any people who do assume wrongly. It wouldn't be like Dorothy to have a favorite among her companions. After the Cowardly Lion joins the group, they aren't separated from each other until Dorothy is taken by the Winged Monkeys. And when they rescue her, who's the first one she hugs and calls "Darling?" The Lion! ;-3 As for costume parties, nine times out of ten it's because the Scarecrow is the easiest costume to make and the most comfortable to wear. However, I have seen different pairings; my sister and her husband once went to a party, she as the Lion and he as the Tin Woodman. (Would you believe he actually used an oil drum as the torso?!) People have been discussing fictional characters ever since there's been fiction; it's no big thang. :-) And for the record, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the others first appeared in a book that's just a few months shy of 120 years old. Now, to be sure, there was one of the over twenty people who worked on the script for the MGM movie who had the notion to make Dorothy 19 and to give her a crush on Hunk, the farmhand who becomes the Scarecrow in her dream. But Mervyn LeRoy put the kibosh on that, wanting to keep Dorothy a child as she is in the books. The only vestige of that rejected notion is the very line, "I think I'll miss you most of all."
After "Meet Me in St. Louis" came out, there was a revival of "Wizard" at many theaters. New posters were created for the movie, but instead of Dorothy Gale gracing them, they put on images of Esther Smith, Judy's character from "Meet Me." :-)
Cola Octoling the real one you mean all this may seem stunning but the true one is paradise Islam this is nothing compared to that if we think this is good
L. Frank Baum's last words are said to have been, "Now we can cross the Shifting Sands," which was an area of the Great Desert that surrounds Oz and cuts it off from the outside world.
Of course the only literary land that actually was part of Heaven was Narnia. The Real Narnia was only reachable through the door of death; the one seen in the physical plane was a shadow or copy of the real one, just as our own world is a shadow of the real thing.
Ray Bolger was so true in his statement at the end I sent him a fan letter and did not know he had passed away his wife replied on the bottom of my letter and sent it ack to me what a keepsake!!
A wonderful story: Not long after seeing _The Wizard of Oz,_ a little girl named Natalie Norris fell ill and was hospitalized. Her mother wrote to MGM and relayed her daughter's wish that she could get a visit from Dorothy. They called Judy, who was of course delighted to do it, and sent Natalie a letter telling her that they had a date. She wanted to come in full Dorothy kit, but by that time everything had been put away in storage, so Judy wore a simple frock and her own short hair, and Natalie didn't mind a bit. Judy chatted with her a while and even sang "Over the Rainbow" to her, bringing Natalie's mother to tears. Later, Natalie showed rapid improvement, and not only recovered, but later in life became a singer herself!
FUN FACT: The suit worn by Jack Haley as the Tin Woodman was the same one that had been constructed (out of buckram and leather) for Buddy Ebsen, but because Ebsen was 6'4" and Haley was between 5'8" and 5'10", the suit had to be cut down a bit! :-)
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this movie is 80 years old, let that sink in.
Crazy!
Good point
the story was "neary 40 years old" when the movie was made!
Caitlin Fitzgerald older than my papa
89 years old to be exact
I always felt very strange when I watched this movie as a kid. I felt sadness for some reason. As a man now, I understand.
Same
I think that might have been because there were sad parts in the movie.
Still do
I felt the same way, the movie just seemed fucked up for some reason
@@hellkidx Not to Judy Garland; she loved it.
It's simply mind-bogggling that this movie was made in 1939! I cannot believe it.
same!!
Yeah, it was part of my childhood, but it was released when my grandparents were in their early teens!
I truly believe the wizard of oz was the first of its kind
I know, it’s nuts.
I thought it was made in early 1980s and I am still shook
When you realize how dark this movie actually is
I saw a video and they said someone hung theirselves on the set.
@Buddi Thanks Buddi.
Lady Tee I read about it but the rumors were false that never happened
Slippery Noodles they are true
IIBlueBieberII and prev,s like the munchkins cause they had put there hands in her dress >:(
I literally just searched up “behind the scenes..” and the first thing that came up “wizard of oz” 💀
Agnes same 💀
I didnt, oof 💀
me too 💀
Back when hollywood was a masterpiece of beauty yet engulfed in very shady activity... lol the shit they put the actors through wouldn't fly today.
What kind of shady activity?
bomb first putting their actors on drugs to make them skinny, using facepaint full of toxic aluminum so much more
I believe there was a story about when Judy was on the set, and she was laughing uncontrollably over Toto, that Louis B. Mayer(I think that's who it was), or one of the directors slapped Judy across the face to get her to pull herself together and to stop acting silly.
***** I don't think so they changed the makeup so he was fine for the rest of the shooting but could be wrong
Josh Wood originally buddy ebsen was cast as the tin man he was the one that had a bad reaction to the makeup and he had to be replaced with jack Haley
When Judy Garland heard of Bert Lahr's death while about to perform on stage, she was devastated and she sang "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" in dedication to Bert. And onset occasion, she referred to him as "My beloved Cowardly Lion". I have to admit, even if Judy Garland had some problems of her own, she had such a genuine heart. RIP, Judy and Bert over the rainbow. And the other two: Ray Bolger and Jack Haley.
Over The Rainbow
John Vargo awww, that's very true
True that.
She had her demons but in everything I've read of her and countless documentaries I've seen everyone always says that she was a loving person and had a crazy sense of humor. I don't think she felt racism or homophobia toward anyone (discrimination was common when she was alive). She was always friendly and funny with fellows stars like Lena Horne, Sammy Davis, Jr., Barbra Streisand, etc. Judy was no saint and she was ever so human. Maybe that's why we identify with her so much.
The day Bert Lahr died, I was to see Judy's show at Caesar's Palace, but she canceled that night.
She And Margaret Hamilton Were Also Good Life Long Friends
Her singing that song "Over the Rainbow" was actually germain to the story, it connected the whole story line. They did wise by leaving it in.
There have been so many incredibly bad decisions made by the executives of movie studios. Star Wars was almost shut down several times because it was over budget and behind schedule. Cutting Somewhere over the Rainbow would have easily been the worst of them all though.
They almost cut Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid
@@SillyCreatureSally you realize that back in the past of 2005, I was at Hawthorne Suites in Conyers, GA, watching The Wizard Of Oz, before 12:00 a.m. on the little TV, while my mom’s out shopping at Walmart, and I was about to get sleepy, but guess what? I’m not sleepy yet; I was STILL playing Mario Kart: Double Dash!! on the Nintendo Gamecube, since I’m gonna be able to finish playing that game.
@@brianjude6789 Ok
@@SillyCreatureSally ok to you too.
I dont wanna really know what happened behind the scenes like the abuse
Yea a munchkin hung himself on the set because a woman didn't want him.
@@sophiadilworth885 That was actually debunked. :)
@@maddycakes3054 No they edited out but it really happened. Go to Wizard of oz behind the scenes secret that happened on the set
@@sophiadilworth885 It was debunked. Someone edited it in over a bird that was in the same place. Besides, the trees and foreground weren't even real, they were painted on, so there wasn't even anything for the munchkin to hang himself on. Explain that, please.
@PenguinxII G If you mean illicit drugs that are now illegal, no. A doctor prescribed a course of normal medicinal stimulants to wake Judy up and depressants to calm her down. This was done with many actors in those days to get them through rigorous shooting schedules.
Not that her job on _Wizard_ was particularly rigorous; as she was still a minor, she only worked for four hours a day, and the only meds she used was an appetite suppressant that you can still get today.
Dark facts about the movie: This movie was filled with exiperimental makeup which caused half of the actors to die. The munchkins stocked there hands up Judie’s dress they even needed to get someone to watch for it due to them getting out of control. Did I tell you the munchkins are 32 and plus while Judy was 20 and less? The with got burned 2 times before she died. The person who made the movie slapped Judy Garland when she was giggling to much at a scene. But he was nice and let the whole crew slap him for that. There’s a part in the movie where there is a hanging munchkin in the background even making one of the cast members looking off camera. They said it was just a bird and they made it look like that in the remastered version. The dog got paid then the munchkins. This movie is 81 years old.
I apologize for any mistakes in this comment I am a kid and I and kind of good at spelling?
No need to flex darling
@@gachasyra4688 Its not flexing its the truth and dark so maybe have a little empathy 8 year old
The hanging man is fake, you should do researches before.
Rawan no it’s not
Maarij Khan it is
My grandpa had a lot of nightmares because of the wicked witch of the west back when the movie was in theaters.
Grounding Guy god that was a long time ago 1939
My volleyball named Wilson liked her because she was kind to Judy..🏀🏐🏀👸👸🥳🥳🥳🧙♀️🧙♀️🧙♀️
he liked margaret and even met her once :)
It just feels so incredible how such a colorful bright high budget looking film is from frickin '39. 1939! That's the 30's late 30's! They built so good sets, they used such good special effects for the time being, it just looks like it was made in the 70's or something!
That was the Golden Era of Hollywood, when movies were still an art form. :-)
I can't believe they didn't get any "residual" during there lives, this is a classic and you would think they would paid for years because of it.
Nobody knew it would become a phenomenon.
Christ, Judy Garland didn't even get 10,000 for her role as Dorothy..
@@kimmyhawk5466 So? She had lots of other work.
@@kimmyhawk5466 What? Wow. What's up with that?
@@Free_Snooki She got paid $500 a week; that was a TON of money in 1939, especially for a teenager.
It was made the same year my grandma was born. She was born in June. The wizard of oz was my absolute favourite movie as a kid. My grandma has it on vhs and I watched it so much that I wore out the tape. I was obsessed. It’s still is to this day
Every time I watch this I remember exactly how old I was and where I watched it for the first time. Such an innocent time. Thanks PA!
Back in the past of 2005, I was at Hawthorne Suites watching “The Wizard Of Oz,” before 12:00 a.m. on the little TV, while my mom’s out shopping in Walmart, and I was about to get sleepy, but I’m not sleepy yet; I was STILL playing “Mario Kart: Double Dash!!” on the Nintendo Gamecube at 11:45 p.m., since I’m gonna be able to finish playing that game, BEFORE my bedtime.
That was when I was 13 years old.
i always loved the scarecrow............. Love this movie ever since I was born
Something about the Scarecrow did appeal to me. I liked both Scarecrow and Tin Man.
Darkman9478 that was the point.
I think what made this movie awesome is the fact it was made in 1939 and the special effects and great picture was still top of its line into the late 90's!!!!
The wizard of oz is such a wonderful classic and has not only an amazing cast of actors but a great storyline and amazing effects. The effects that went into this are magnificent and the effort shines through the screen every time I watch this film. This is the one movie I want modern hollywood to keep their grubby little remake hands off this film. ITS EXACTLY HOW IT SHOULD REMAIN WITHOUT A CGI GLAM UPDATE!!!!
If they'd had CGI back then, they'd have used it. It certainly would have avoided a lot of problems.
The single greatest movie of all time, no doubt.
My very favorite movie - my first time seeing it was in my daddy’s lap at age 4 - and it’s still my favorite at age 65.
The reprise of Ding Dong The Witch is Dead in Emerald City, is the one deleted scene I wish had stayed in the film or I just wish sadly still survived, only a few seconds of footage of that scene surviving the trailer.
I saw at IMAX the other day. It definitely was a bird! The magnified view of this movie was a little bit too much being magnified so much!
What’s crazy is that none of them are left alive only the last one who was left alive was Jerry Marren who was a munchkin who died in 2018
Some children who filled in wide shots of the Munchkin City are still around, as is Caren Marsh-Doll, Judy Garland's stand-in, who is 101 years old.
i remember The wizard of oz i remember watching the wizard of oz with my family when i was a little boy i was also raised with the wizard of oz we all grew up with the wizard of oz
This is creepy when u know what's happend
And what would that be?
@superbowserlogan Dorothy Gale did not have any of that done to her, nor did Judy Garland, the actress who played her.
The Singer Midgets were just people, especially the American contingent (the core group was Austrian and German), who were mostly everyday people from everyday jobs. They were all thrilled to be in a big Hollywood movie, and had no intention of ricking getting fired for mistreating the star. Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Coroner, summed up the relationship between Judy and the Singer Midgets when he told Oz historians, "We were treated as equals by her. She would sit on the steps on the set with the rest of us and chat every day."
Judy was given no diet pills; in order to trim her curves (because she was very well-developed by the age of sixteen) she was on a reduced food intake diet and she went hiking and swimming with her stuntwoman Bobbie Koshay. Also, just being on the sets with the blazing hot lights was bound to make anyone shed a pound or two.
Judy was flatly against smoking at that time in her life. In an interview given in 1938, she announced that she would never smoke or drink. Sadly, she did both in her adult years, but never as a teen. I mean, use your intelligence: what point would there have been to it?
The "hanging Munhckin" story was cooked up by some nit in the 1970's who wasn't aware that when the scene in question was filmed, the Singer Midgets were not even at MGM, and would not be until a week later. People now try to claim that when the movie was put on DVD, they edited in a bird over the "body," but the bird was there on the set in 1938, and can be seen at other points in the Tin Woodman's introductory scene.
Retakes are inevitable, especially in such a complex film, and Victor Fleming certainly did "favor" them, because he liked to give the film editor (in this case, Blanche Sewell) a good choice.
@superbowserlogan Everything I've already written militates against all of that crap. Judy Garland never said anything about it (what's your source that she did?). Smoking doesn't help toward weight loss; I know, I've seen many fat smokers. And like I already said, Judy already said in 1938 (in a quote in the book "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Oz historians Jay Scarfone and William Stillman) her aim was never to smoke.
The story of the body on the set is entirely bogus. There were dozens of people, close to a hundred, maybe, on that sound stage keeping an eye on everything. It would have been impossible for anyone do do anything without being seen. It's a stupid urban myth and nothing more.
I watched the very first VHS tape ever sold in stores. It was the same movie you see on DVD and Blu-ray today, the same movie that showed on T.V. for decades beginning in 1956, and it's the same movie that audiences saw in 1939. It has not been altered; you don't do that to a classic.
Again, the Singer Midgets were just people, not animals. You might as well accuse the full sized extras in the movie of maltreating Judy; it would be just as baseless. Had anyone tried anything with his "Judalein," Fleming would have kicked them out of the studio, possibly literally.
Judy, as a minor, only worked an eight-hour day, and a good chunk of that time was given to being tutored, along with her stand-in Caren Marsh-Doll, at the studio school. That being the case, there was no need for any pills of any kind to alter her consciousness.
I've done over 30 years of research, friend. Frankly, you need to do some, by which I mean going to reliable, reputable sources and not just latching on to unfounded rumor. The best sources are these books: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" by Aljean Harmetz, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman, and the aforementioned "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Scarfone and Stillman.
@superbowserlogan You didn't prove anything; you just spewed a lot of lies. If you don't want to read my comment, that means you don't want to know the truth as set down by people who have been Oz researchers for decades.
Read these books: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" by Aljean Harmetz, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman, and the aforementioned "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Scarfone and Stillman.
I love the oz my favorite movie of all time!
what’s crazy is i always felt a sense of sadness when watching this.
Not sure why; it has sad parts, of course, but overall it's pure delight.
Ever since I was a kid there was just something about this movie that gave me an eerie feeling. To this day when I watch it I still feel it, but I love the movie.
It never gave Judy Garland any "eerie feelings." She loved it, and would want you to loosen up and enjoy it as well.
The Wizard of Oz is the perfect mix of entertainment and creepiness ....
Apart from the Wicked Witch and her forces, what "creepiness?"
Wonderful video. I learned a lot about the characters from the Wizard of Oz. I am playing 4 of the songs in a concert/sing along the end of Oct and bought a songbook with the Jitterbug song, but never heard anyone do even a portion of it until I saw this video. -Kevin (Flutist for over 40 years)
I'd like to list where each bumper starts:
1. Cut 'Over the Rainbow'? 0:01
2. Special Effects 1:01
3. The Scarecrow and a Deleted Dance 2:03
4. The Tinman 3:41
5. The Directors 4:57
6. Problems with Costumes and Makeup 6:11
7. Lost Song and Dance 7:44
8. The Wizard's Many Roles 8:57
And the conclusion is at 9:36
Cool
Jack Haley might be my favourite actor now
I used to LOVE this movie so much! Such a great classic! Wish they made movies like this still. I love sets and props not cgi.
I like both; it's still human beings who design the environments.
I always loved Margaret Hamilton and the monkeys, because I knew it was a movie, even as a kid.
The greatest movie ever made.
The directors forced her to smoke 80 cigarettes a day ..... no wonder she died at 47 they were absolute monsters everyone in the cast of this movie suffered Not to mention the one who committed suicide while they were filming
Ben Phillip she died of an overdose of drugs. nothing to do with the cigarrettes.
Elisa's Lyfe but i it’s still bad for her health and nobody have to smoke 80 cigarettes a day
Everything you said was wrong.
@@lukasborner8517 Nobody did.
Lot's of interesting informative facts... Thanks for sharing!
I really enjoyed this rare footage well done with everything with the costume special effects and my favorite thing is that the fire and the melting of the witch
"can you imagine the wizard of oz without a rainbow? me:yes sis the rainbow not everyhting to the movie👁️👄👁️
The Jitterbug may be removed from the movie, but to my knowledge it was never removed from the stage version. But then, the stage version came way after the movie, didn't it.
I do wish they kept this song in the movie. It was quite fun. (IMO)
9:32 Yep, the sentry with his weeping eyebrows! XD
There have been various stage adaptations, and many of them have used "The Jitterbug." The one most often performed is the 1988 adaptation by England's Royal Shakespeare Company (I've been in that one three times, the third time as the Cowardly Lion), which follows the movie script very closely.
Another in the Muny version ("Muny" is the nickname of the St. Louis Municipal Opera), which uses the MGM songs, but otherwise is a different adaptation and has an additional song, "North Star," that Dorothy sings at the Emerald City. In that version, the team is attacked by the Jitterbug shortly after the Cowardly Lion has joined the team.
For some reason, that but always makes me laugh! I'm hitting the table the way he cries from his eyebrows!
My dad would send me to bed the part where old lady was on her bike took dog away with information stating shes allowd to take the dog put her to sleep because Tarri went after her nasty cat I thought dog was going be put down I'm glad she got away and never died in the movie great movie I usto cry at that same part every year
No other movie can compare
The Wicked Witch always scared me as a kid
im here 10 years before this video was posted
Every single face you see in this video passed away a long time ago
Spooky
H1RFULT one of the munchkins is still alive mate
Which one lad
H1RFULT the one in the middle of the lollipop guild.
H1RFULT his name is Jerry Marren
BenjiBJM he dead
Just think they all got high on poppies while running thru that poppy field...
How wild is that for '39... They were noddin out!
The flowers were fake. Real plants would have died under those lights.
You someone step on the paw of the dog and it broke ):
It may have only been a sprain, because she was back at work two weeks later.
Such a great movie. 2019💕
Despite playing bitter enemies in this movie, Judy Garland became great friends with Margaret Hamilton during the making of this movie. There is famous story that when Garland was to go to her prom and already picked a dress and all, she was told by MGM that she will go on the tour with Mickey Rooney instead and miss the prom. When Hamilton heard about this, she phoned MGM boss Louis B. Mayer and yelled at him.
Likewise, despite also playing bitter enemies in this movie, Ray Bolger and Margaret Hamilton were lifelong good friends. It was Bolger who delivered eulogy at Hamilton's funeral in 1983, which turned out to be Bolger's final public appearance before his death in 1986.
There is also another legend that says that Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr hated working with Judy Garland. Supposedly, they had nothing against her personally, but all three being established actors and stars they hated being supporting characters to a teenage girl. Some say that Bolger originally lobbied hard for Shirley Temple, with whose parents he was a good friend and also because Temple was the biggest child star at the time. However, the same legend says that by the end of the shooting they did change their minds.
One person in the cast about whom all agreed that was the nicest was Frank Morgan. Despite Morgan's problems with alcohol were well known at the time, the rest of the cast said that he was completely sober during the entire shooting and was an amazing professional, despite being one of the last main actors cast as the role was originally first offered to W.C. Fields and then to Ed Wynn, who both declined.
The first two stories are not true.
It wasn't a matter of a prom, it was about Judy's graduation, which took place the year after _Wizard,_ and she had no problems in that regard, certainly nothing that required aid from Margaret Hamilton, who was not the kind of person to yell at studio executives.
Bolger, Haley, and Lahr were indeed very well-established performers and had had much success. They were also not primo uomos, and had no problem being part of an ensemble. For his part, Bolger was in heaven to be playing his dream role of the Scarecrow of Oz.
Frank Morgan always had a case with him which was basically a portable bar; but he could hold his liquor and even if he was a bit tipsy, he was always "on" as soon as it came time to work, so he certainly gave the appearance of being sober.
@@MaskedMan66 First of all, prom or graduation it is basically same thing in Serbia. Other than that, thank you for correction.
Second of all, I said there exists a story about Bolger, Haley and Lahr not liking to work with a teenage girl. I never said it is 100% true. Honestly, I myself do not believe in it.
Third of all, there is no doubt that Morgan was heavy alcoholic, but many cast members claimed that while he did carry the case with booze around he never once came drunk to the set when he was filming. All said many times that despite his personal problems with alcohol he was tremendous professional and they all enjoyed working with him. They also said that, despite being by far the most known actor in the movie at the time, he was extremely professional with others who were mostly unknown or not well known actors, but have all become famous after this movie.
@@MaskedMan66 Oh, it has been confirmed by numerous people that Hamilton did yell at Meyer into the telephone. For some reason, despite being well known for holding grudges, Meyer never punished Hamilton for it in any way.
@@MaskedMan66 Oh, and I don't know if Bolger pushing for Shirley Temple story was true, but the story does exist and it is the fact that Bolger was a friend of her parents. Again, not claiming it is a true story.
@@miroslavtomic7038 She wasn't in Serbia, she was in California. And you're welcome. 🙂
Judy's co-stars all loved her. Haley had worked with her already on a movie called _Pigskin Parade,_ so they were already friends.
Frank Morgan's professionalism was legendary, and people loved to work with him as well; Margaret Hamilton and he worked on more than one movie together, and she was always full of praise for him. Frankly, I think he doesn't get nearly as much attention for this movie as he deserves.
The only relative unknown in _Wizard_ was Judy; otherwise it was an all-star cast.
the scarecrow's dance sequence that was cut from the movie....i think that was a good call....it's long and awkward/fake looking....it would take a huge amount of "suspension of disbelief" for me to enjoy it.
The final cut was one hour and forty one minutes, 101 minutes, at the time children's movies ran around 90 minutes. Lowe's theaters wanted the movie around 90 minutes so they could get another showing every day. This movie was not seen by MGM as a serious adult movie or musical which could run much longer. In the days of a nickel admission, the movie didn't turn a profit after marketing expenses on its first release. Not until after the war in its second release did it show a profit. This movie was not the studio's attempt of the popular book Wizard of Oz, but MGM spent the resources to film a classic, maybe just a tad too much back then... But MGM knew there would be more releases if they turned out a classic. Since MGM was into musicals their musical producers insisted on keeping the 3 minute song Over the Rainbow since Judy performed excellently. However, Mayer insisted after the first black and white reel, the second reel would reveal Oz in color. A lot of dance and song numbers were cut, a little here and there throughout the film. There was a lot of pressure on the length of the movie. At the pre screening at San Luis Obispo, the studio fought over the song, but since those who saw the film liked the song the most, kept it in the film...
RIP all the cast
And what a cast it was. Everyone was perfectly cast especially the wicked witch. The movie is a real masterpiece.
You never would have guessed that Jack Haley was an eleventh hour replacement for the role of the Tin Man, would you?
The voice-over is better suited for a documentary on the Travel Channel.
I have not watched this movie in ages
Well, do! :-)
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Damn tin man looked mad in the thumbnail
Cause he was lmao
Of what I've heard, it was because the studio Shirley Temple worked for wouldn't let her work for them. They were rivals I think.
Mervyn LeRoy always intended the movie as a vehicle for Judy. Talk about Shirley never got beyond talk.
Thaanks for sharing this. We were invited over to watch The Wizard of Oz on the first color TV in the neighborhood. I could not believe the witch was GREEN! And I didn't know the beginning and ending of the movie was black and white with the middle part in color. Thanks again.
Oh my goodness! I remember watching this! Thank you for posting it :) Nice trip down memory lane
there must be somewhere where they have that segment in full
THE 30'S WINS IN MOVIES THEN TODAYS MOVIES
They cut the part out about how they created the tornado in Kansas.
"Mario Kart: Double Dash!!" & "The Wizard Of Oz"
I know, right? That WAS my favorite memory from my first childhood.
but he said himself also that he had to fight for the role of the Scarecrow
yes, 1998, the year of high-tech computer animation.
AND... the song shows up in other places in the film score... that REALLY pack a punch... thank goodness the decided to keep it...
They may be smiling but they are treated so harshly
Scarecrow has a gun in one of the scenes there also is not a hanging munchkin guys! If it was a hanging munchkin, wouldn’t he have legs?
I loved this movie and still do but knowing what happened behind the movie is just creepy
And what do you think you know? Not that anyone died or was abused or raped or any such guff as that, I hope.
Sempre Judy..
I’m gonna get nightmares from this movie I swear.
And they call the Lion cowardly...
MaskedMan66 💀
My favourite scene from this movie is the tornado scene 🌪🏠
What you don’t know:
Judi couldn’t stop giggling during a scene
So someone took her off camera and slapped her...
Yea, that is true. I know that too!!
Must’ve been scary as hell for her
The dierecter
I know ed that she is also drug addict
Lol XD
Feirce Gorlock he asked them to break his nose
Its hard to belive that everyone who was on the Wazard Of Oz are dead now.
OGIvI - There's one munchkin left
OGIvI - ecpect for two of the munchkins
Some of the behind-the-scenes people are still with us, and Jerry Maren, the middle man in the Lollipop Guild, is alive and well at 97 years young.
MaskedMan66 huh thats really young
+Flashlight As Vincent Price once said, "Age is a matter of what you've got going on in your head." And Jerry Maren has all his marbles and a zest for life.
I dont think he mentioned that one of the actors stepped on toto's paw and broke her paw😢😭
It's not certain whether it was broken or sprained, but she had a "stand-in" who was usually on the set and who filled in for her until she came back.
@@rachaelthai Terry wasn't paid anything; her trainer, Carl Spitz, who ran a school for animal trainers and also kept a kennel, was the one who received a salary, which was more than the extras got, but not as much as most of the starring cast.
And JUDY most certainly cared about Terry's well-being; she had become very attached to her "Toto," and even asked Spitz if she could adopt her (even though she already had two dogs). But Terry had her career in front of her, so they had to part company.
@@rachaelthai the money didn't go to the dog tho
@@mk-iu2jr Exactly. She wouldn't have known what to do with it. :-)
@@milanasabal5276 Judy received no injuries while making the movie; she was actually a lot luckier than her co-stars.
They didn't mention the snow coming down in the poppy fields scene was asbestos.
COO Bay or how it was code for heroin
Wow! Just wow!
@@Ego-de4dt No, it wasn't.
That's right, you could buy fake snow in the 30s that was asbestos. Probably why many of the actors/crew never lived very long.
@Derangedxzombie Judy died young because of an overdose of barbiturates. The others lived to ripe old ages (for people of their generation); Bert Lahr was 72 when he died, Jack Haley was 81, and Ray Bolger was 83. Their deaths had nothing whatsoever to do with the "asbestos" snow, which was actually crushed gypsum.
"I had a second degree on my face and a third in my hand."
"Classic Hollywood special effects at their finest."
No, an experimental effect that went wrong.
Second degree burns, first degree fun
MaskedMan66 went wrong twice*
@@iibloxibea3910 No, just the one time.
@@AnneSofieLovesMozart Don't talk like an idiot.
Judy Garland was very very beautiful. May she R.I.P.
They at first wanted shirly timple to play dorothy. I'm glad they went with judy because if they'd gon with shirly there would be no over the rainbow.
@@rachelberrythegleequeen.3221 Oh, no! Mervyn LeRoy, the producer, always saw it as a starring vehicle for Judy, because he'd heard her sing and was blown away by this youngster with such a powerful, mature voice. Other people at MGM suggested Shirley, as she was closer to the age of the literary Dorothy, but LeRoy was adamant; it was Judy or no-one. The only person he would have even considered was Deanna Durbin, and she was really too uptown to play a farm girl.
Having said that, "Over the Rainbow" would still have been composed.
Inside to
@@tiffanystewart9265 What?
@@MaskedMan66 beautfil inside to
The special effects on the Wizard of Oz is so amazingly advanced for its time.
Junk
And dangerous!
well lets not talk about the scene where the witch gor 2nd and 3rd degree burns lol
Its really not, they used real fire and burned this women, and the makeup burned permanently damaged their skin, they forced judy or dorthy to take pills to make her skinny which killed her later on cause she became addicted, they had to recast the tinman because one of them got so injured from the makeup. Theres asbestos in the snow, despite rumours NO A MUNCHKIN DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE. but the munchkins and directors did molest and assault sexually and physically towards dorthy, she was also bullied by other cast members for "stealing the spotlight". The lion was forced to wear pounds and pounds of costume, and couldnt sit down for hours or eat so they makeup wouldnt mess up.
@@mirroredrumor what really did happen to the munchkin? I'm Really curious. Some said he committed suicide on a scene and was changed during the remastered.
Judy was so beautiful :(( but she's in a better world now; somewhere over the rainbow :)🌈⭐✨
Yeah
Was? She’s a beautiful precious angel in heaven now. Sorry if i’m being mean! 🌈⚡️
I hope so💞
Da bum tss! Good song joke!
No she’s in the grave
What did this program have a commercial every 30 seconds?
because these are the commercials.
Zoeybatterup152
Not that many
Justin Graziano maybe cuz they knew millions of people were watching?
YOU TUBE going the way of commercial TV
once they pulled us suckers in....
lol
Not really. This is a very heavily-edited video. We are only seeing segments of the complete Special here.
The times where they smile backstage they knew they where being filmed so they had to look happy but let me tell you they werent and it was a torture being on set and they gave some of them drugs
They never made any secret of the fact that it was a very hard job; any movie was in those days and most movies are now. But only Judy, as far as we know, had meds that she took on an as-needed basis, and that had begun years before "Wizard."
@@MaskedMan66, I was at Hawthorne Suites watching The Wizard Of Oz, before 12:00 a.m. on the little TV, while my mom’s out shopping, and I was about to get sleepy, but I’m not sleepy yet; I was STILL playing Mario Kart: Double Dash!! on the Nintendo Gamecube, since I’m gonna be able to finish playing that game.
l have watched it every Easter since I was a kid. That's 60 times. They don't make them like that anymore.
Wow! I should start my own movie tradition...
Look hard enough, and you’ll find something.
Raymond Le Blanc so you’re sixty
Easter? Its always been a Christmas movie.
I never have watched this movie.
Why do I feel like this movie is haunted
It isn't, so no need to feel that way. Judy's not going to crawl out of the T.V. set and drag you down a well or anything.
Maybe the fact that it's cursed...
But don't worry me too..
@@aeraci121571 It isn't cursed; that's ridiculous.
It is tbh...
@@nobody-lh4rd Nope. No such things as curses.
Jack Haley was the perfect choice as the tin man no one else couldn't have played it better in my opinion
yes! He's my favorite character :)
Mine too
Monae Williams mam u are black
I think you mean "no one else could have played it better." ;-) Well, we'd never have known if Buddy Ebsen had stayed in the part, but watching the movie as it is now, you'd never think that Haley was an eleventh-hour replacement; he played it perfectly.
Scott Charles why tf does that matter 😂😂
this movie was released in 1939 thats the year my Grandma was Born
Is she still with us?
Same my great-grandfather was born a week before it came out
@@musicalfrog6143 My parents were six years old.
@@MaskedMan66 jeez
@@gooeygaster30 What?
I’m never showing this movie to my kids. Is just so dark 😳
I agree
The movie is not dark, and Judy Garland would insist you let them watch it. She loved it for the rest of her life, and so did everyone who worked on it.
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MaskedMan66 she hated her life
@@higuy1650 She hated some of her circumstances, but she loved her children, her friends, performing for an appreciative audience, and various other aspects of her life. So like just about anybody, she had her good times and bad times. One thing she adored was her connection with "Wizard"; why else would she have reprised the role of Dorothy on the radio in 1950 and made "Over the Rainbow" her personal anthem?
Judy garland is the most beautiful woman of all time
She died of drugs. (Sorry)
Don't forgot Natalie Wood and Marylin Manroe
Marylin died of overdose (same as Judy)
Natalie died of drowning
@@dariscamilovic2377 Common knowledge, but why even bring it up?
@@beelou5671 ikr Judy died from drugs because the movie made her get addicted because they kept giving them to her to make her look more young
Bee & Lou Naomi Campbell
Its so sad that judy died so young,she was beautiful and a brilliant singer
The munchkins are creepy too
You a bigot?
9:34
You mean the guy that drops tears out of his eyebrows?
OHHHHHHHHHH 😎
I'm still absolutely captivated by this movie, these actors and the gorgeous saturated technicolor. Pure artistry.
The movie is an absolute masterpiece.
@@arealmench with abuse in it
@@martakalnina3501 Wrong.
@@MaskedMan66 no right
@@martakalnina3501 Nope. Though it was a hard slog to make the movie and everyone endured their share of hardships, nobody was abused.
Dorothy whispered that she preferred the Scarecrow, but I always loved the Tin Man. His heartfelt emotions, even before he got his "ticker," made me cherish him, "my sentimental friend." And Jack Haley, unmasked, was one good-looking man.
When did she whisper any such thing?
@@MaskedMan66" I'll miss you the most scarecrow"
@@anotherlittlepieceofmyart She wasn't saying that she "preferred" him, nor did she whisper it. It's just that she'd known him the longest.
@@MaskedMan66 no she didn't whisper it , but I think most people assume "I'll miss you the most" means "because I love you best."
When they aren't pictured all four together (Dorothy, scarecrow, tinman, and lion), ever notice how it's always Dorothy and Scarecrow? Ever go to a Halloween party and see someone dressed as Dorothy there with a tin man? No, shes with scarecrow because HES HER FAVORITE. lmao. I cant believe I'm debating who is a fictional character's favorite other fictional character from a movie made over 70 years ago,.... at 8:26 am. I haven't even had coffee yet.
@Another Little Piece of My Art I don't know about "most people," but any people who do assume wrongly. It wouldn't be like Dorothy to have a favorite among her companions.
After the Cowardly Lion joins the group, they aren't separated from each other until Dorothy is taken by the Winged Monkeys. And when they rescue her, who's the first one she hugs and calls "Darling?" The Lion! ;-3
As for costume parties, nine times out of ten it's because the Scarecrow is the easiest costume to make and the most comfortable to wear. However, I have seen different pairings; my sister and her husband once went to a party, she as the Lion and he as the Tin Woodman. (Would you believe he actually used an oil drum as the torso?!)
People have been discussing fictional characters ever since there's been fiction; it's no big thang. :-) And for the record, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the others first appeared in a book that's just a few months shy of 120 years old.
Now, to be sure, there was one of the over twenty people who worked on the script for the MGM movie who had the notion to make Dorothy 19 and to give her a crush on Hunk, the farmhand who becomes the Scarecrow in her dream. But Mervyn LeRoy put the kibosh on that, wanting to keep Dorothy a child as she is in the books. The only vestige of that rejected notion is the very line, "I think I'll miss you most of all."
I absolutely loved Judy Garland! Especially in Meet me in St. Louis and The Wizard of Oz!
After "Meet Me in St. Louis" came out, there was a revival of "Wizard" at many theaters. New posters were created for the movie, but instead of Dorothy Gale gracing them, they put on images of Esther Smith, Judy's character from "Meet Me." :-)
OZ is actually Heaven. Same with Neverland
And Lollipop Island is too.🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🌕🌛🌙🌜🌜🐸🐸🎅🎅🎅🌲🌲🌲🐒🦜👯♀️👯♀️🐠🐟🐀🐀
Cola Octoling the real one you mean all this may seem stunning but the true one is paradise Islam this is nothing compared to that if we think this is good
L. Frank Baum's last words are said to have been, "Now we can cross the Shifting Sands," which was an area of the Great Desert that surrounds Oz and cuts it off from the outside world.
@@joselares5311 Correct! And Dorothy wasn't even in the second book. :-)
Of course the only literary land that actually was part of Heaven was Narnia. The Real Narnia was only reachable through the door of death; the one seen in the physical plane was a shadow or copy of the real one, just as our own world is a shadow of the real thing.
Ray Bolger was so true in his statement at the end I sent him a fan letter and did not know he had passed away his wife replied on the bottom of my letter and sent it ack to me what a keepsake!!
that’s so sweet!
Awwwwwww 🥰
this is my most favorite movie in the whole world
Mine too-- and I love Pinkie Pie as well!
A wonderful story:
Not long after seeing _The Wizard of Oz,_ a little girl named Natalie Norris fell ill and was hospitalized. Her mother wrote to MGM and relayed her daughter's wish that she could get a visit from Dorothy. They called Judy, who was of course delighted to do it, and sent Natalie a letter telling her that they had a date. She wanted to come in full Dorothy kit, but by that time everything had been put away in storage, so Judy wore a simple frock and her own short hair, and Natalie didn't mind a bit. Judy chatted with her a while and even sang "Over the Rainbow" to her, bringing Natalie's mother to tears. Later, Natalie showed rapid improvement, and not only recovered, but later in life became a singer herself!
That’s my cousin’s name, too!
@@brianjude6789 Natalie Norris?
@@MaskedMan66 I’m talking about my mom’s niece, who’s my cousin, Natalie Cato. SHE'S the one who works at the YMCA.
That flying house trick has me shook!
It's just a simple backwards clip.
FUN FACT: The suit worn by Jack Haley as the Tin Woodman was the same one that had been constructed (out of buckram and leather) for Buddy Ebsen, but because Ebsen was 6'4" and Haley was between 5'8" and 5'10", the suit had to be cut down a bit! :-)