Ray Bolger as The Scarecrow in 'The Wizard of Oz.' Related: 12 Gorgeous Throwback Photos of Judy Garland in Her Prime His salary for the film, according to Fricke: $72,000 (around $1.63 million ...

‘Wizard of Oz’ became the focus for Jim and the team because, number one, it’s iconic and, 8-to-80, people know this movie, so it’s got a built-in nostalgic fan base.

Long before the new movie "Wicked" made a sympathetic character of the Wicked Witch of the West, she was played by actress Margaret Hamilton in the classic film, The Wizard of Oz. But it was not ...

Nessarose (Marissa Bode) is one of the most intriguing characters in Wicked. We don't know as much about her as some of the characters that already appeared in the 1939 classic film, The Wizard of Oz.

It wasn’t always easy being green for Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. And Hamilton — who died at age 82 in 1985 — went through a ...

For nearly 125 years, the fantasy world of writer L. Frank Baum’s children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), has continued to capture the imagination of Americans, interpreted for the ...

The Wiz is a then-contemporary, all-Black revamp of the Wizard of Oz story which ran on Broadway for four years and received a film version in 1978, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.

In the 1939 The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the East first makes an appearance through the transformation of Dorothy’s mean-spirited Kansas landowner, Almira Gulch (Margaret Hamilton).

It wasn’t always easy being green for Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. And Hamilton — who died at age 82 in 1985 — went through a ...