To start things off, the first deus ex machina in The Wizard of Oz is when the Wicked Witch is defeated by pouring water on her, as this is such an unexpected sudden weakness for her to have and ...

Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" stands as one of the most adapted ... a wild card, a deus ex machina, or some combination of the three. Before "Wicked," the adaptation that ...

Latin for “god from the machine,” the deus ex machina is a literary device in which an unexpected character or element intervenes to solve a seemingly intractable problem. Typically ...

Betty Ann Bruno, a former child actress who played a munchkin in the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" before becoming a ... Hawaii, the ex-thespian grew up in Los Angeles across the street from ...