Margret Hamilton, who played the wicked witch of the west, was such a sweet woman in real life. She was concerned that children were getting too scared from her portrayal in the movie and she went on Mr Rogers to show it was just her in a costume playing pretend. I'm pretty sure there's a video on youtube of that episode. It's worth a watch.
Gone with wind was supposed to be a comedy and no one got it, the author ofboththe book and screenplay wanted Groucho marx to play Brett, you don't want croucho unleß it's a comedy
And it infamously showed, going by production reports. He once slapped teenage July Garland in the face because she got the giggles and held up filming for a minute in a scene with the Lion. She was also put on addictive drugs under his watch to get through filming, and other actors got seriously injured on his set as well. And who knows what else we don't know.
it was a holiday tradition ...every thanksgiving all the family stomachs full and nodding out would gather around the TV and watch the wizard ...its a good memory ...
Somewhere Over The Rainbow was almost not included in the movie. Executives thought the song slowed down the movie, but Victor Fleming was persistant on keeping it in. I can't imagine this movie not having this song in it, so I'm glad Victor Fleming fought for its inclusion.
A pair of the ruby slippers sold. There were about 6 or 7 pairs made. Most movie costumes for main characters are made in multiples because they get used multiple days during shooting, or by stand-ins and stunt people, or can get damaged. One of the ruby slippers was specifically made for close-ups but not walking in to keep it pristine.
Jerry Maren, who was the Lollipop Guild member who hands Dorothy the lollipop, passed away just a few years ago, in 2018. He lived to be 98. I think he was the last surviving member of the cast before he passed away.
My Dad said when he was a kiddo, it was the first movie he seen in color, said it was mind blowing when it went from black and white to color at the movie theater :) So I always appreciate that part of the show the most, because of what he said when we watched it together.
@@anamewhichisnottaken lmao of course its sepia ugh, but to them back then, it was trickery and magic seeing the change lol math isn't mathing? lmao United States you would get other chances to see re-releases on the big screen in the summers of 1949 and 1955. you need to learn some more history, now go away :)
The crow which lands on the Scarecrow was something of a Hollywood star. "Jimmy" was in dozens of movies in the 1930's and 40's including "It's a Wonderful Life" where he was Uncle Billy's pet.
What makes the bike a "woman's bike" is the bar (or bars) that connect the handle bars section to the seat section. On a woman's bike, they drop down, making room for the dress to hang.
That's kind of the whole point. The scarecrow thinks of all the best ideas. The tinman is the most compassionate and caring. The lion mistakes his fear for cowardice but always acts in the most courageous fashion. They all already have the gift they seek from the wizard. And Dorothy always had the power to go home at any time.
The song "Over The Rainbow" is one of the most iconic numbers in a musical and my personal favorite in this movie. Delicious movie trivia: >The "oil" that they used to lube up Tin Man's joints was actually watered-down chocolate syrup. >The horse pulling the carriage in The Emerald City kept licking off the gelatin powder that turned its coat purple, red and yellow. Sweet movie trivia: >Jack Haley, the actor who played the Tin Man was the replacement for Buddy Ebsen, who suffered an allergic reaction to the makeup. The voice Jack used for Tin Man was reportedly one he'd use when reading good night stories to his daughter, his real voice was gruffer and deeper. Sad movie trivia: >In the scene where Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tin Man meet The Cowardly Lion, you can see Judy bury half of her face in Toto's fur. This is because she found it difficult to keep a straight face when Bert Lahr started blubbering as the Lion, and the producers would get mad and slap her because of it. >The pyrotechnics used for the Wicked Witch of the West's entries and exits inflicted 2nd degree burns on Margaret Hamilton's face and a 3rd degree burn on her right hand. She understandably refused to not only do any more stunts involving pyrotechnics, but she missed 6 weeks of filming due to hospitalization.
The tornado effect was done using cloth twisted up in a cone shape that was twirled around quickly. Dust was generated at its base by using fans and blowers. This was filmed and then rear-projection was used with the actors to make the scene.
This is the greatest film ever made. I can literally watch this movie on repeat and I never get tired of it. Fun fact, the voice that says "where for art thou, Romeo" was a cameo by the actress who voiced Snow White in the 1937 film.
Even though I'm a 2000s kid, I grew up with The Wizard Of Oz! I watched it so many times as a little kid! It never gets boring! Also a massive fan of Judy Garland! I hope you'll react to Wicked Part 1 (A prequel to The Wizard Of Oz) when it eventually gets added to digital/streaming!😊
I LOVE this movie. Everything from the visuals, the light heartedness, old lingo, my boy the lion.. 😅 I saw it at least a dozen times growing up between daycare, home and even the black version - The Wiz with Dianna Ross and Michael Jackson. ❤ ❤
A timeless classic !! Performances are just amazing and the musical numbers are just so good and entertaining Considering the chaotic production this looks incredible!
My father was younger when he saw this in the theater, and ran out screaming when the witch lit the scarecrow on fire near the end. He didn't see the end of the movie until he had us children. Now whenever he watches it he warns Dorothy, "Look out for that window!" And then when she inevitably gets hot by it he laments, "She never listens..." every single time...
No green screens like today. Those were built and painted. There is a clip out there (audio) of a time when Judy Garland was hosting one of the great talk shows back then and she ran into Margert Hamilton on set. They talked a bit, and Judy asked her if she could still do the witches laugh and she pulled it off. This was many years later. So cool. search, it's out there.
I had my daughter watch Wizard of Oz before she went to see Wicked. She said it really helped her understand what was going on. For Christmas she's going to be getting DVD Wizard of Oz and the the prequel which she hasn't seen.
Americans are extremely nice, even to strangers. My Brit wife has noticed this many time and said we strike up conversations with anyone. She has asked me several times if I knew people at the till/cash register because we talk so freely.
In the show, Raising Hope, the dad complained that he never lasted 10 minutes watching this movie because he couldn't get past it being in black and white. Also, watching this with the sound off while playing Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album is an experience.
So I knew this originally comes from a series of children's books from the beginning of the 20th century. My grandmother told me she read them as a child. But I had to look it up right now, and it was originally created by L. Frank Baum in 1900, and he wrote 19 of them before he died, and then the publisher kept it going until the 60s. There are 40 books total from the original series, but then there are additional unofficial books that were written, and who knows what else. In the 80s when I was a kid, there was a sequel called "Return To Oz". I haven't seen it in decades, but I remember liking it. I didn't know it then, but it was actually directed and co-written by Walter Murch, who is a legendary film editor, and it's based of a combination of a couple of the original books. "Wicked" came from a new series of books that were a new reinterpretation of the world of Oz that began in the 90s, and then became a very successful stage musical before it became the new movie.
I think a lot of Judy’s storytelling from the movie, usually during talk shows, have been debunked. Judy was an excellent raconteur, but never let facts get in the way of a good story!
@@Divamarja_CA I believed her on this story. I can easily envision other actors doing this. She was a beautiful young lady. Anthony Michael Hall said he used to sneak peeks at Beverly D'Angelo when she appeared topless on the closed set in National Lampoon's Vacation. Human nature.
This marked one of several instances where one director had 2 Best Picture nominees in the same year (Victor Fleming made this and GONE WITH THE WIND in 1939 and did the same with CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS and THE GOOD EARTH the year before). The others to do this include Alfred Hitchcock (REBECCA and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT) Sam Wood (OUR TOWN and KITTY FOYLE), Francis Ford Coppola (THE CONVERSATION and GODFATHER PART II), Steven Soderbergh (ERIN BROCKOVICH and TRAFFIC) among others.
Mary, you didnt seem to catch the biggest twist, the whole "journey to oz" was her dream when she was unconcious from the window blowing in, thats why the 3 farmhands turned into the scarecrow, tin man, and lion. They were played by the same actors
The suits at that time insisted it be a dream, because they thought the audience wouldn't accept an actual fantasy. This was pre-Star Wars, LOTR, and Harry Potter.
I'm actually proud to say I've seen The Wizard of Oz in theaters. There was a period of time in the 90s that they re-released it to theaters. As a lifelong Oz fan, it was such a great treat to see it on the big screen, and I'll always thank my dad, who's never actually been one for musicals, in taking me to see it.
Growing up, we only had a b&w tv, so I missed out on the colorful transformation til I was 15, when we got a color TV. But we never missed the annual broadcast. Much later, it became regular Christmas time programming at a local art house, then singalongs and quote-alongside became a thing. I love this movie! Story is lovely, lyrics are so clever and the performances are magical and legendary. And the script, the script!!!
When I left my brother's house, after a recent long holiday visit, I made a huge show of hugging his dog right before I left, and crying out "I think I'm gonna miss YOU most of all!"
The actor who played Uncle Henry was born in the 1860s! That blows me away, to think that people still watch a movie starring someone from so far back in the past. It's a Wonderful Life also stars at least one actor born in the 1860s, and several who were born in the 1870s and 80s.
I was at a Nonpoint concert 2 years ago. The lead singer is a big fan of The Wizard of Oz. He themed his tour for Wizard of Oz. I bought a Skateboard Autograph theme Land of the Oz. I told him when I met him in South Carolina they have a theme of Wizard of Oz in the mountains. I think it’s called Land of Oz. It’s been many years since I been to. I recommend it to the singer to go. He was interested but idk if he been there.
Allegedly, during the initial arrival to Oz, in that sequence, you can see a munchkin swinging from a rope. There were many articles about that at one point.
All the colors were so intense because this was one of the premier movies with Technicolor and they wanted to show it off. In its day, Technicolor was the CGI of the era. Up until then all the movies were black and white. That's why the change from sepia to color in the Munchkin land was so impressive to audiences.
Apparently, lights were so hot back in the day, the actors Who played scarecrow, tin Man, and lion were taking bets on who would pass out first because of the heavy makeup they had to wear
Actually, it was Buddy Ebsen, the first choice to play the tin man, who was hurt by the makeup. I think they had it more or less ironed out by the time Jack Haley succeeded him in the role. Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West, was badly burnt and had to spend a few days in the hospital because of that initial scene in Munchkin Land in which she disappears in red smoke and flame. There was no incident when they first filmed it, but they tried to get a second take for safety, and that's when she was burned. The actress, Billie Burke, who played Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, has an interesting role in the fabulous 30s comedy "Topper," which has never been reacted to in TH-cam. It's about a banker, Cosmo Topper, whose life descends into chaos when he becomes the only person who can see and hear husband and wife ghosts who died in a car crash.
They had a nationwide call for all little people to go to Hollywood for the Munchkins. A lot of them stayed because it was the first time many of them had been in company with a lot of other little people. They took advantage in a very big way! Lot of partying....and more than a few marriages among them.
In the full soundtrack, there are some unused songs and one of them is a reprise of Over The Rainbow, but Dorothy is holding back tears while singing. Then cries, “I’m frightened, Auntie Em” Jesus Christ, I had to remove it from my library cuz it hurts to listen to that She was a great actress
Most of the movie was directed by Victor Fleming. The Kansas sequences were actually directed by King Vidor. Actually, this movie had some difficulty getting made because of creative differences. It went through 5 directors and 14 writers.
27:13 This was difficult for me to watch as a kid. I just can’t stand to see Judy in this emotional state. I felt like just taking her into my arms and giving her a big hug and say “It’s gonna be okay, I’ll protect you.”
My daughter loved this film growing up, like we had to watch it every morning....And being born in Kansas myself, my whole life I've heard that line " You're not in Kansas anymore"
I loved reading this in school in 5th grade. We read this book in a group and the book had a few drawings every now and then. The part where Scarecrow asked the wizard for a brain and only receives a mixture of hay and nails (depicted in a very silly way) cracked me and my friend up way too much.
Disney made an unofficial sequel called Return to Oz in the 80s you should check out. Fairuza Balk from The Waterboy plays Dorothy in it. It's way darker and scarier than this movie. Basically, they took the spooky tone from the haunted forest and the witch's castle in The Wizard of Oz and made that the tone for the entirety of Return to Oz.
"How many witches are there?" Four. North, East, West, and South. In the book, Glinda is the witch from the South, but for the movie they combined the witches from the South and North to create Glinda. In the book, aside from the Witch of the East, Dorothy meets all the witches. For the movie, they changed a lot and left out a lot of Dorothy's journey that takes place in the book.
Mickey Rooney starred in a lot of movies with Judy Garland at that time. He said the studios kept them so busy with rehearsals and filming that they were constantly given uppers in the morning and downers at night to make them sleep.
According to a popular fan theory, Glinda, the "Good Witch" from The Wizard of Oz, is actually the real villain, manipulating Dorothy's journey and benefiting from the conflict with the Wicked Witch of the West by orchestrating events to ultimately remove her competition without directly causing harm herself; however, in the traditional story, Glinda is portrayed as a benevolent character who helps Dorothy throughout her journey, making her the hero, not the villain. Glinda arrives on the scene right after Dorothy's house lands on the Wicked Witch of the East, essentially celebrating the death and setting the stage for further conflict with the Wicked Witch of the West. By giving Dorothy the magical shoes, Glinda essentially ensures that the Wicked Witch of the West will pursue Dorothy, creating a dangerous situation. Some argue that Glinda could have revealed the power within Dorothy to go home much earlier, but instead chooses to let her travel through Oz to face challenges and ultimately eliminate the Wicked Witch. She also revealed The Wizard of Oz wasn't a real wizard and he took off in the hit air balloon so Glinda would be the only power or ruler of Oz...
There was a joke in The Avengers when Captain America recognized Fury's reference to Loki making "two of the smartest people I know into his personal flying monkeys." Tony Stark eye-roll. But now you get the reference, too.
Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland probably provided more cultural in jokes and expressions in other movies, books, news articles/ essays, comedy shows, tv shows than any other two books / movies
Check out the infamous "munchkin suicide theory"about the scene where Dorothy first meets the tin man during the long shot of the yellow brick road you'll see something that appears to be hanging from a rope in the distance
I think it's kinda funny how nobody notices that it was the Tin Man who untied the balloon when it floated away. Now that you have seen Wizard of Oz and also listened to Dark Side of the Moon, you should do both at the same time. They eerily go together. All you have to do is turn the volume of the movie down and start the album when the MGM lion roars.
He actually left and abandoned wizard of oz to work on gone with the wind the same way Eli Roth abandoned borderlands he was like you all got this you don’t need a director
In 1939, most movies were done on sets (so they could develop the film right away to see if they got good footage). Technicolor was a whole level more difficult as the camera spilt the incoming light into three, and each beam then passed though a special color filter (and the resulting black-n-white film could be dyed a color coordinated with that filter) and glued together. This means the cameras required THREE times the light to get a decent exposure. Technicolor cameras were the size of a refrigerator, extremely heavy and had to be mounted on a heavy-duty boom. The point of this is that the technicolor developing was too specialized to do on location. You would then to want to get the exposed film back to the studio, requiring extra hours back to Hollywood and then back to crew wherever they were so they could see it. And the sets for this movie required just about every intense light available, making the set boiling hot. The makeup for each of the three required HOURS of prep each morning, including make sure it matched that of the previous days.
One of the things I love about this movie is all the subtle little cultural details it encapsulates. Such as the fact that North and South have good witches and East and West have the bad witches...which very neatly reflects the American cultural attitude of isolationism from east and west and the accompanying American feeling of comfort staying within the hemisphere of the Americas. And 1939 was definitely a peak point for isolationism in the US people, and a general mistrust of getting involved with anything from too far to the east OR west of the USA.
@@clarkness77 Maybe...maybe not...but there is a lot of subtle messaging in older films, they used to go to the trouble of weaving it into the story, nowadays the writers are not that talented or motivated to hide anything.
The Scarcrow, Tin Man & Lion were played by Broadway and Vaudeville professionals.If you want to buy the ruby slippers they are rather pricey. They sold at auction for 28 million USD
They should do an Australian remake of this called the wizard of AUS. Dorothy has to take the A87 from Melbourne to Uluru with her four companions, the emu, the dingo, the kangaroo, and a koala as toto. She will be aided by the good witch, Priscilla of the desert and opposed by the bad witch, Gina Rinehart, and her army of dropbears. With Hugh Jackman as the wizard.
Ever since I was a child, the Tin Man has always been my most favorite character. It wasn't until I was in high school that I learned from reading the book that the Tin Man was originally human, something of which I'm now a little disappointed with that they never addressed in this movie. His backstory furthur solidfies my favortism of him.
Also the scarecrow has asbestos in his costume, because asbestos has fire resistant properties, so it was in his costume during the fire scene… also the tin man ended up dying from respiratory failure that was likely caused by the asbestos dust that his father would bring home from set
tornado alley (a line of states in the US) get wrecked yearly by twisters. thankfully they get more fore warnings now than back then. its still awful the destruction.
I've heard that the Horse of a Different Color was painted with various flavors of Jello to get the various colors. If true, I wonder if they had problems with the horse trying to lick it off!
Great reaction I loved it it a lot of memories when I was a little one lol my favorite part was that had me laughing so so much when mary said oh oil me up lmao I had to laugh thank you so much and happy holidays💯🙏🎅🤶⛄🎁🎄🕯💂👍😀
I remember the Green Witch & The Flying monkeys traumatizing my Older brother that was the first time I ever seen my older brother scared (we 2 years apart)
I loved this movie as a kid but I was terrified of the witch. For some reason witches were my greatest fear in the terms of fictional evil characters x'D
The phrase 'the man behind the curtain' comes from this movie, along with 'we're not in Kansas anymore', and even 'over the rainbow'. All have taken on deeper meanings in popular culture
Scarecrow- The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side Me- That’s a right triangle!
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Margret Hamilton, who played the wicked witch of the west, was such a sweet woman in real life. She was concerned that children were getting too scared from her portrayal in the movie and she went on Mr Rogers to show it was just her in a costume playing pretend. I'm pretty sure there's a video on youtube of that episode. It's worth a watch.
I love that Mr Rogers video!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 She was such a lovely lady!!! 🥰 May she rest in peace! 🥰
Judy Garland herself said that it was difficult trying to be scared of Margret Hamilton because she was the sweetest person ever.
Before she turned to acting, she was a Kindergarten teacher, so her concern of children being scared of her as the witch is definitely warranted.
@GeminiWolfstarGaming I forgot she was a kindergarten teacher. Thanks! ✌️👍
Ironically Margaret Hamilton was also the nicest to Judy Garland on set
The fact that Victor Fleming directed this and GONE WITH THE WIND in the same year is incredible!
Gone with wind was supposed to be a comedy and no one got it, the author ofboththe book and screenplay wanted Groucho marx to play Brett, you don't want croucho unleß it's a comedy
And it infamously showed, going by production reports. He once slapped teenage July Garland in the face because she got the giggles and held up filming for a minute in a scene with the Lion. She was also put on addictive drugs under his watch to get through filming, and other actors got seriously injured on his set as well. And who knows what else we don't know.
Mary in the Land of Oz, “Lola, I think we’re not in Australia anymore”
Very nice👍
We're over the rainbow, Mary Cherry!
it was a holiday tradition ...every thanksgiving all the family stomachs full and nodding out would gather around the TV and watch the wizard ...its a good memory ...
Somewhere Over The Rainbow was almost not included in the movie. Executives thought the song slowed down the movie, but Victor Fleming was persistant on keeping it in. I can't imagine this movie not having this song in it, so I'm glad Victor Fleming fought for its inclusion.
30:29 In the Avengers, Captain America said “I understood that reference.”
Last week Dorothy's ruby slippers sold for $28 million dollars at auction.
A pair of the ruby slippers sold. There were about 6 or 7 pairs made. Most movie costumes for main characters are made in multiples because they get used multiple days during shooting, or by stand-ins and stunt people, or can get damaged. One of the ruby slippers was specifically made for close-ups but not walking in to keep it pristine.
Jerry Maren, who was the Lollipop Guild member who hands Dorothy the lollipop, passed away just a few years ago, in 2018. He lived to be 98. I think he was the last surviving member of the cast before he passed away.
My Dad said when he was a kiddo, it was the first movie he seen in color, said it was mind blowing when it went from black and white to color at the movie theater :) So I always appreciate that part of the show the most, because of what he said when we watched it together.
You look to be in your 40s judging by the pic. This movie came out in 1939. The math isn’t mathing. Also, it is sepia not B&W.
@@anamewhichisnottaken are you mad because I am older than you, yet look younger than you? lmao I think that is what is really going on here lol
@@anamewhichisnottaken lmao of course its sepia ugh, but to them back then, it was trickery and magic seeing the change lol math isn't mathing? lmao United States you would get other chances to see re-releases on the big screen in the summers of 1949 and 1955. you need to learn some more history, now go away :)
The crow which lands on the Scarecrow was something of a Hollywood star. "Jimmy" was in dozens of movies in the 1930's and 40's including "It's a Wonderful Life" where he was Uncle Billy's pet.
What makes the bike a "woman's bike" is the bar (or bars) that connect the handle bars section to the seat section. On a woman's bike, they drop down, making room for the dress to hang.
As a kid, I always thought girls bike design was superior, as it did have the “Nut-Cracker Bar”. I racked my balls on that bar so many times.
Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain.
Also Scarecrow during the movie: I've got an idea!
That's kind of the whole point. The scarecrow thinks of all the best ideas. The tinman is the most compassionate and caring. The lion mistakes his fear for cowardice but always acts in the most courageous fashion. They all already have the gift they seek from the wizard. And Dorothy always had the power to go home at any time.
Glinda: Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?
Also Glinda: only bad witches are ugly.
Dorothy: what exactly are you saying?
That probably would’ve been a good moment for Dorothy to slam Glinda upside the head with her basket, and for Toto to bite her.
Everything is better with a scarecrow 🎃
The song "Over The Rainbow" is one of the most iconic numbers in a musical and my personal favorite in this movie.
Delicious movie trivia:
>The "oil" that they used to lube up Tin Man's joints was actually watered-down chocolate syrup.
>The horse pulling the carriage in The Emerald City kept licking off the gelatin powder that turned its coat purple, red and yellow.
Sweet movie trivia:
>Jack Haley, the actor who played the Tin Man was the replacement for Buddy Ebsen, who suffered an allergic reaction to the makeup. The voice Jack used for Tin Man was reportedly one he'd use when reading good night stories to his daughter, his real voice was gruffer and deeper.
Sad movie trivia:
>In the scene where Dorothy, Scarecrow and Tin Man meet The Cowardly Lion, you can see Judy bury half of her face in Toto's fur. This is because she found it difficult to keep a straight face when Bert Lahr started blubbering as the Lion, and the producers would get mad and slap her because of it.
>The pyrotechnics used for the Wicked Witch of the West's entries and exits inflicted 2nd degree burns on Margaret Hamilton's face and a 3rd degree burn on her right hand. She understandably refused to not only do any more stunts involving pyrotechnics, but she missed 6 weeks of filming due to hospitalization.
Buddy Ebsen was originally supposed to play the Scarecrow, so he lost out twice.
The tornado effect was done using cloth twisted up in a cone shape that was twirled around quickly. Dust was generated at its base by using fans and blowers. This was filmed and then rear-projection was used with the actors to make the scene.
This is the greatest film ever made. I can literally watch this movie on repeat and I never get tired of it.
Fun fact, the voice that says "where for art thou, Romeo" was a cameo by the actress who voiced Snow White in the 1937 film.
"Simpler times" That hits a lot of us more than you know. 🥰
Judy Garland was born in Grand Rapids, MN, in June 1922. The US State I'm from.
L. Frank Baum,who wrote the book THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, created the word Munchkin.
It's never actually brought up in the movie, but the other brick road, the red one, is supposed to lead to Glinda's castle.
"Flying monkeys. I understood that reference" - Steve Rogers.
Even though I'm a 2000s kid, I grew up with The Wizard Of Oz! I watched it so many times as a little kid! It never gets boring! Also a massive fan of Judy Garland!
I hope you'll react to Wicked Part 1 (A prequel to The Wizard Of Oz) when it eventually gets added to digital/streaming!😊
I LOVE this movie. Everything from the visuals, the light heartedness, old lingo, my boy the lion.. 😅 I saw it at least a dozen times growing up between daycare, home and even the black version - The Wiz with Dianna Ross and Michael Jackson. ❤ ❤
its a story about 3 women fighting over a pair of shoes
And one of the three chicks kills one of them with her flying house because woman can't drive.
Lol.
It’s so nice when the incels self identify. It makes things so much easier for everyone involved.
The plot summary is "runaway teen kills two over pair of shoes".
Wasn't surprised to see a man's name making this boomer joke. Try evolving sometime. Could do you some good :)
A timeless classic !! Performances are just amazing and the musical numbers are just so good and entertaining
Considering the chaotic production this looks incredible!
The b/w to color transition is STILL breathtaking 🥲🥲💗🥰
Such a classic! 💘🥰💗💞
It is called Sepia, not B&W. Also, the transition scene was filmed in technicolor with everything painted Sepia and Judy in a Sepia dress.
@@anamewhichisnottakeni think i read it was a stand in wearing sepia, and just stepped forward in the blue after the door was open
judy, not just
My father was younger when he saw this in the theater, and ran out screaming when the witch lit the scarecrow on fire near the end. He didn't see the end of the movie until he had us children.
Now whenever he watches it he warns Dorothy, "Look out for that window!" And then when she inevitably gets hot by it he laments, "She never listens..." every single time...
You should watch her daughter, Liza Minelli, (Emmy, Grammy and Oscar winner) singing and dancing in the movie "Cabaret"
No green screens like today. Those were built and painted. There is a clip out there (audio) of a time when Judy Garland was hosting one of the great talk shows back then and she ran into Margert Hamilton on set. They talked a bit, and Judy asked her if she could still do the witches laugh and she pulled it off. This was many years later. So cool. search, it's out there.
I had my daughter watch Wizard of Oz before she went to see Wicked. She said it really helped her understand what was going on. For Christmas she's going to be getting DVD Wizard of Oz and the the prequel which she hasn't seen.
That weird movie ZARDOZ (1974) could be fun to watch... at least to see Sean Connery in his red outfit 😅
Americans are extremely nice, even to strangers. My Brit wife has noticed this many time and said we strike up conversations with anyone. She has asked me several times if I knew people at the till/cash register because we talk so freely.
In the show, Raising Hope, the dad complained that he never lasted 10 minutes watching this movie because he couldn't get past it being in black and white. Also, watching this with the sound off while playing Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album is an experience.
So I knew this originally comes from a series of children's books from the beginning of the 20th century. My grandmother told me she read them as a child. But I had to look it up right now, and it was originally created by L. Frank Baum in 1900, and he wrote 19 of them before he died, and then the publisher kept it going until the 60s. There are 40 books total from the original series, but then there are additional unofficial books that were written, and who knows what else. In the 80s when I was a kid, there was a sequel called "Return To Oz". I haven't seen it in decades, but I remember liking it. I didn't know it then, but it was actually directed and co-written by Walter Murch, who is a legendary film editor, and it's based of a combination of a couple of the original books. "Wicked" came from a new series of books that were a new reinterpretation of the world of Oz that began in the 90s, and then became a very successful stage musical before it became the new movie.
Charles Dickens wrote a Christmas Carol in 1843.
The horse was dyed with Jello, in fact the scenes with the horse had to be done quickly because the horse kept trying to lick off the Jello.
Judy Garland once said the actors portraying the Munchkins were always trying to peek at her in her changing room. 😅
I think a lot of Judy’s storytelling from the movie, usually during talk shows, have been debunked. Judy was an excellent raconteur, but never let facts get in the way of a good story!
@@Divamarja_CA I believed her on this story. I can easily envision other actors doing this. She was a beautiful young lady. Anthony Michael Hall said he used to sneak peeks at Beverly D'Angelo when she appeared topless on the closed set in National Lampoon's Vacation. Human nature.
This marked one of several instances where one director had 2 Best Picture nominees in the same year (Victor Fleming made this and GONE WITH THE WIND in 1939 and did the same with CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS and THE GOOD EARTH the year before). The others to do this include Alfred Hitchcock (REBECCA and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT) Sam Wood (OUR TOWN and KITTY FOYLE), Francis Ford Coppola (THE CONVERSATION and GODFATHER PART II), Steven Soderbergh (ERIN BROCKOVICH and TRAFFIC) among others.
Mary, you didnt seem to catch the biggest twist, the whole "journey to oz" was her dream when she was unconcious from the window blowing in, thats why the 3 farmhands turned into the scarecrow, tin man, and lion. They were played by the same actors
The suits at that time insisted it be a dream, because they thought the audience wouldn't accept an actual fantasy. This was pre-Star Wars, LOTR, and Harry Potter.
I'm actually proud to say I've seen The Wizard of Oz in theaters. There was a period of time in the 90s that they re-released it to theaters. As a lifelong Oz fan, it was such a great treat to see it on the big screen, and I'll always thank my dad, who's never actually been one for musicals, in taking me to see it.
Growing up, we only had a b&w tv, so I missed out on the colorful transformation til I was 15, when we got a color TV. But we never missed the annual broadcast.
Much later, it became regular Christmas time programming at a local art house, then singalongs and quote-alongside became a thing. I love this movie! Story is lovely, lyrics are so clever and the performances are magical and legendary. And the script, the script!!!
Merry Christmas Mary.
The Cowardly Lion's costume was made from real lion skin.
The snow was made of asbestos.
When I left my brother's house, after a recent long holiday visit, I made a huge show of hugging his dog right before I left, and crying out "I think I'm gonna miss YOU most of all!"
Pure entertainment,,100% by everyone involved..the physicality is amazing..love tiger😅,,
The actor who played Uncle Henry was born in the 1860s! That blows me away, to think that people still watch a movie starring someone from so far back in the past. It's a Wonderful Life also stars at least one actor born in the 1860s, and several who were born in the 1870s and 80s.
I was at a Nonpoint concert 2 years ago. The lead singer is a big fan of The Wizard of Oz. He themed his tour for Wizard of Oz. I bought a Skateboard Autograph theme Land of the Oz. I told him when I met him in South Carolina they have a theme of Wizard of Oz in the mountains. I think it’s called Land of Oz. It’s been many years since I been to. I recommend it to the singer to go. He was interested but idk if he been there.
Allegedly, during the initial arrival to Oz, in that sequence, you can see a munchkin swinging from a rope. There were many articles about that at one point.
All the colors were so intense because this was one of the premier movies with Technicolor and they wanted to show it off. In its day, Technicolor was the CGI of the era. Up until then all the movies were black and white. That's why the change from sepia to color in the Munchkin land was so impressive to audiences.
It even manages to impress even modern audiences who don't expect it.
All the talk of wanting some ruby slippers of her own makes me think that Mary could rock a Dorothy cosplay!
Apparently, lights were so hot back in the day, the actors Who played scarecrow, tin Man, and lion were taking bets on who would pass out first because of the heavy makeup they had to wear
Actually, it was Buddy Ebsen, the first choice to play the tin man, who was hurt by the makeup. I think they had it more or less ironed out by the time Jack Haley succeeded him in the role.
Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West, was badly burnt and had to spend a few days in the hospital because of that initial scene in Munchkin Land in which she disappears in red smoke and flame. There was no incident when they first filmed it, but they tried to get a second take for safety, and that's when she was burned.
The actress, Billie Burke, who played Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, has an interesting role in the fabulous 30s comedy "Topper," which has never been reacted to in TH-cam. It's about a banker, Cosmo Topper, whose life descends into chaos when he becomes the only person who can see and hear husband and wife ghosts who died in a car crash.
And Billie Burke‘s husband was Florenz Ziegfeld, of the famous Ziegfeld Follies.
@@itsjuliescottyay And Potter, Lionel Barrymore, is the great-uncle of Drew Barrymore.
They had a nationwide call for all little people to go to Hollywood for the Munchkins. A lot of them stayed because it was the first time many of them had been in company with a lot of other little people. They took advantage in a very big way! Lot of partying....and more than a few marriages among them.
Rumor has it the hotel where they were all staying was quite a rowdy drunken festival. LOL!
In the full soundtrack, there are some unused songs and one of them is a reprise of Over The Rainbow, but Dorothy is holding back tears while singing. Then cries, “I’m frightened, Auntie Em”
Jesus Christ, I had to remove it from my library cuz it hurts to listen to that
She was a great actress
Most of the movie was directed by Victor Fleming. The Kansas sequences were actually directed by King Vidor. Actually, this movie had some difficulty getting made because of creative differences. It went through 5 directors and 14 writers.
27:13 This was difficult for me to watch as a kid. I just can’t stand to see Judy in this emotional state. I felt like just taking her into my arms and giving her a big hug and say “It’s gonna be okay, I’ll protect you.”
My daughter loved this film growing up, like we had to watch it every morning....And being born in Kansas myself, my whole life I've heard that line " You're not in Kansas anymore"
I loved reading this in school in 5th grade. We read this book in a group and the book had a few drawings every now and then. The part where Scarecrow asked the wizard for a brain and only receives a mixture of hay and nails (depicted in a very silly way) cracked me and my friend up way too much.
For those who don't know, it wasn't the water itself that made the witch melt, it was the reason Dorothy used it.
Disney made an unofficial sequel called Return to Oz in the 80s you should check out. Fairuza Balk from The Waterboy plays Dorothy in it. It's way darker and scarier than this movie. Basically, they took the spooky tone from the haunted forest and the witch's castle in The Wizard of Oz and made that the tone for the entirety of Return to Oz.
"How many witches are there?"
Four. North, East, West, and South. In the book, Glinda is the witch from the South, but for the movie they combined the witches from the South and North to create Glinda. In the book, aside from the Witch of the East, Dorothy meets all the witches. For the movie, they changed a lot and left out a lot of Dorothy's journey that takes place in the book.
There are so many callbacks to this movie: Going to meet Yogurt in Spaceballs; Wayne's World, "Yes, and monkeys might fly out of...".
Mickey Rooney starred in a lot of movies with Judy Garland at that time. He said the studios kept them so busy with rehearsals and filming that they were constantly given uppers in the morning and downers at night to make them sleep.
According to a popular fan theory, Glinda, the "Good Witch" from The Wizard of Oz, is actually the real villain, manipulating Dorothy's journey and benefiting from the conflict with the Wicked Witch of the West by orchestrating events to ultimately remove her competition without directly causing harm herself; however, in the traditional story, Glinda is portrayed as a benevolent character who helps Dorothy throughout her journey, making her the hero, not the villain.
Glinda arrives on the scene right after Dorothy's house lands on the Wicked Witch of the East, essentially celebrating the death and setting the stage for further conflict with the Wicked Witch of the West.
By giving Dorothy the magical shoes, Glinda essentially ensures that the Wicked Witch of the West will pursue Dorothy, creating a dangerous situation.
Some argue that Glinda could have revealed the power within Dorothy to go home much earlier, but instead chooses to let her travel through Oz to face challenges and ultimately eliminate the Wicked Witch.
She also revealed The Wizard of Oz wasn't a real wizard and he took off in the hit air balloon so Glinda would be the only power or ruler of Oz...
There was a joke in The Avengers when Captain America recognized Fury's reference to Loki making "two of the smartest people I know into his personal flying monkeys." Tony Stark eye-roll. But now you get the reference, too.
Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland probably provided more cultural in jokes and expressions in other movies, books, news articles/ essays, comedy shows, tv shows than any other two books / movies
It wasn't the first movie in color but it was the first movie to draw audience to theaters with color
Check out the infamous "munchkin suicide theory"about the scene where Dorothy first meets the tin man during the long shot of the yellow brick road you'll see something that appears to be hanging from a rope in the distance
I think it's kinda funny how nobody notices that it was the Tin Man who untied the balloon when it floated away. Now that you have seen Wizard of Oz and also listened to Dark Side of the Moon, you should do both at the same time. They eerily go together. All you have to do is turn the volume of the movie down and start the album when the MGM lion roars.
He actually left and abandoned wizard of oz to work on gone with the wind the same way Eli Roth abandoned borderlands he was like you all got this you don’t need a director
In 1939, most movies were done on sets (so they could develop the film right away to see if they got good footage). Technicolor was a whole level more difficult as the camera spilt the incoming light into three, and each beam then passed though a special color filter (and the resulting black-n-white film could be dyed a color coordinated with that filter) and glued together. This means the cameras required THREE times the light to get a decent exposure.
Technicolor cameras were the size of a refrigerator, extremely heavy and had to be mounted on a heavy-duty boom.
The point of this is that the technicolor developing was too specialized to do on location. You would then to want to get the exposed film back to the studio, requiring extra hours back to Hollywood and then back to crew wherever they were so they could see it. And the sets for this movie required just about every intense light available, making the set boiling hot. The makeup for each of the three required HOURS of prep each morning, including make sure it matched that of the previous days.
One of the things I love about this movie is all the subtle little cultural details it encapsulates. Such as the fact that North and South have good witches and East and West have the bad witches...which very neatly reflects the American cultural attitude of isolationism from east and west and the accompanying American feeling of comfort staying within the hemisphere of the Americas. And 1939 was definitely a peak point for isolationism in the US people, and a general mistrust of getting involved with anything from too far to the east OR west of the USA.
Your looking a bit too into it bro😅
@@clarkness77 Maybe...maybe not...but there is a lot of subtle messaging in older films, they used to go to the trouble of weaving it into the story, nowadays the writers are not that talented or motivated to hide anything.
Now you watch the sequel "Return to Oz" and the prequel "Oz, the great and powerful". I love them both!
The Scarcrow, Tin Man & Lion were played by Broadway and Vaudeville professionals.If you want to buy the ruby slippers they are rather pricey. They sold at auction for 28 million USD
Judy Garland was only 16 when she was cast as Dorothy 1938.
I first watched The Wizard of Oz when I was 6 years old. The flying monkeys scared me so much I had nightmares about them for years.
They should do an Australian remake of this called the wizard of AUS.
Dorothy has to take the A87 from Melbourne to Uluru with her four companions, the emu, the dingo, the kangaroo, and a koala as toto.
She will be aided by the good witch, Priscilla of the desert and opposed by the bad witch, Gina Rinehart, and her army of dropbears.
With Hugh Jackman as the wizard.
You can have these very same ruby red slippers for the low, low price of around $30 million. Sold for 28m just last week.
Ever since I was a child, the Tin Man has always been my most favorite character. It wasn't until I was in high school that I learned from reading the book that the Tin Man was originally human, something of which I'm now a little disappointed with that they never addressed in this movie. His backstory furthur solidfies my favortism of him.
Please watch the Wicked part 1 2024 then
It's basically the backstory of the characters.
Wicked part 2 will be basically wizard of oz story.
Mary Christmas Mary
In 5th grade, my class did a stage version of The Wizard of Oz, and I played the wizard!
13:08 the woman who played the witch really did get badly burned making this film and so did her stunt double.
The coloring and the effects were revolutionary at the time. It’s hard to believe now but then this was just groundbreaking in so many ways
Also the scarecrow has asbestos in his costume, because asbestos has fire resistant properties, so it was in his costume during the fire scene… also the tin man ended up dying from respiratory failure that was likely caused by the asbestos dust that his father would bring home from set
Very recently those red shoes worn by Judy Garland in the wizard of oz sold for 28 million US dollars!!
You should be a singer too..wish you sang the whole song...beautiful voice..
tornado alley (a line of states in the US) get wrecked yearly by twisters. thankfully they get more fore warnings now than back then. its still awful the destruction.
We sang Over the Rainbow for our 5th grade graduation and every time I hear it, it takes me back 😩
I've heard that the Horse of a Different Color was painted with various flavors of Jello to get the various colors. If true, I wonder if they had problems with the horse trying to lick it off!
Great reaction I loved it it a lot of memories when I was a little one lol my favorite part was that had me laughing so so much when mary said oh oil me up lmao I had to laugh thank you so much and happy holidays💯🙏🎅🤶⛄🎁🎄🕯💂👍😀
You NEED to react to Wicked Part 1 after this whenever that hits streaming!!! (And Part 2 after that comes out next year)
Looking forward to Snow White. Gives me Tim burtons vibes
I remember the Green Witch & The Flying monkeys traumatizing my Older brother that was the first time I ever seen my older brother scared (we 2 years apart)
Lol that was me when I was a kid. Could not stand those flying monkeys!
I loved this movie as a kid but I was terrified of the witch. For some reason witches were my greatest fear in the terms of fictional evil characters x'D
The phrase 'the man behind the curtain' comes from this movie, along with 'we're not in Kansas anymore', and even 'over the rainbow'. All have taken on deeper meanings in popular culture
Scarecrow- The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side
Me- That’s a right triangle!
Need to watch Return to Oz as well. So underrated.
Dorothy got the tin man all lubed up... Oops! Did I say that out loud?