" 'The Wizard of Oz' won itself a bad reputation because it became a musical comedy and a movie," noted Carol Ryrie Brink in the South Dakota Library Bulletin in 1948. With time, and with the rise ...

quicklist:title: Oztext: W.C. Fields was the first choice to play the Wizard, but Harmetz said, "the studio wouldn't meet his price." Instead, MGM turned to contract player Frank Morgan.

THE WIZARD OF OZ, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Frank Morgan, Bert Lahr,group photo, 1939, Herbert Stothart conducting the MGM Studio Orchestra for The Wizard of Oz, which was recorded at ...

At the time, "The Wizard of Oz" was the most expensive movie ever made by Hollywood's hallmark studio MGM at the cost of $2.8 million, much like the astonishing third of a billion-dollar price tag ...

Everyone loves "The Wizard of Oz," except the official arbiters of kid lit: critics and children's librarians. They hate the "Oz" books. Or at least they did.

And Las Vegas is no stranger to “The Wizard of Oz.” When the MGM Grand opened in 1993, it was fully decked out with elaborate “Wizard of Oz” theming – there was a “magical Emerald City ...

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere will debut on August 28. The extrapolation of the old film’s visuals to fill the Sphere’s enormous domed screen has drawn much of the attention, and it’s a ...

You can’t go wrong with dinner and a show, and Lancaster’s Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre—now celebrating its 39th season—delivers a lively, family-friendly take on The Wizard of Oz, the ...

That's the mantra of Glinda, "Wicked's" bubbly good witch. And it applies, equally, to the "Oz" stories where she made her first appearance. They've always been popular. With children, parents ...