The Evil Production of The Wizard of Oz
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The Wizard of Oz is a cult classic musical film that came out in 1939. Sources say that this is one of the most viewed movies of all time, However behind the bright colors of the film lies a very dark and evil production. Since this was 1939 there weren't that many laws when it came to protecting actors like we have today, meaning that Hollywood got away with many cruel things in the film. All the way From the little people being underpaid, to the start of the main lead’s drug addiction caused by being drugged on set which eventually lead to her death. Today I will dissect the evil production of the wizard of Oz film.
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underpaid munchkins 0:00
toto injury 1:51
tinman toxic paint 2:25
cowardly lion costume 3:34
the wicked witch of the west fire stunt 4:22
snow scene 5:46
Judy Garland a*use 6:27
random morbid facts10:02
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No offense but dude you look like plainrock 124 if he had a mullet
JUST BOUGTH STUFFFFF
Would you ever do a video on the production hell of the crow from 1994 even more happened beyond brandon lee,s death
After watching this video, I don't think I would be watching the wizard of oz anytime soon.
5 Jared Leto??
It’s so sad the abuse Judy had to go through at such a young age.
People weren't smart back then
Hollywood is run by the devil
I feel bad
Rest In Piss
Did you know that Judy Garland was pregnant but her mother and her producer decided to get rid of it
„For everyone who mistreated judy, rest in piss“
*everyone liked that*
I almost thought he said he said rest is peace but then I realized he said something else.
Nobody mistreated her while she made _Wizard._
The fact that he was trying to make her thinner and berating her for her weight, is proof that he was intending to groom her.
"He" who? The reason she had to reduce was that she was a zaftig teenager playing a child. And who's "he?"
@@MaskedMan66 weren't you watching the video. Heck Morbidforfun isn't the only person who talked about Judy Garland and how she was treated like that by both the guy in charge of the movie and her mother, the guy in charge definitely made her drug usage worse and berated her for not being thin enough for him even though she was a freaking teenager at the time. When an adult only compliments a girl, a child, on how she looks and how beautiful her breasts are, chances are that man has been grooming that kid.
@@sarahtelles1931 The film's producer, Mervyn LeRoy (how about YOU learn some facts, like people's names?) had battled studio heads to get Judy the lead in _Wizard._ They didn't think that she had had enough experience, as she'd only been with MGM for three years and hadn't starred in anything, certainly not such a big movie as _Wizard_ was intended to be. But LeRoy admired Judy, recognized that she was a triple threat, and knew she could knock it out of the park.
Judy's only "drug usage" was the taking of an appetite suppressant once a day, a preparation which is still on the market today.
LeRoy never said anything about Judy's breasts except inasmuch as they had to be hidden or reduced in order to help the illusion of Dorothy being a prepubescent. Judy's height (4'11") and her ability to act below her age also contributed.
Instead of watching erroneous videos, read some books by people who know what they're talking about. I always recommend "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
@@sarahtelles1931 Mervyn LeRoy was Judy's biggest fan when she was still basically an unknown. He would not have allowed anyone to abuse her. Her "drug usage" when making _Wizard_ amounted to one appetite suppressant-- prescribed by a doctor-- which is still sold today. She didn't need to be thin, they just needed to hide that fact that she was a zaftig teenager; part of that was brought about by diet and exercise (hiking, swimming, tennis, badminton, etc.), and part of it by costuming. LeRoy certainly never said anything to her about her breasts; as a married man and a father, that was off his radar.
Sure, other people have churned out the same stories, just like other people have told about Elvis still being alive, the Earth being hollow, and the world being run by a secret society of intelligent reptiles. That doesn't make those stories true. Repetition of lies about Judy Garland doesn't make them true either.
@@MaskedMan66 a fan wouldn't be telling a child of an actual healthy weight for her age, that she needs to be thinner and that shes too fat, despite already being thin.
This is just beyond sad and I will never look at the Wizard of Oz the same again. It’s criminal how little Judy and her co-stars were cared for and just how much they suffered during the filming :(
For me it makes me more appreciative of this absolute masterpiece. It would be criminal for me not to. But than there's all this shit that was just discussed. I'm conflicted.
This video is full of it. Judy and her fellow actors were justly proud of how the film turned out and were among its biggest fans, especially Bolger and Miss Hamilton.
@@ARC1300 Much of it is false.
@@ARC1300There is a great saying which is to differeciate the author from the book
@@ros9764 What the blazes does "differeciate" mean?
Judy deserved way better. Rest in peace to her. And it's really sad how ignorant the people around her were.
Better than what? There's little to nothing of truth here.
I also read that the only real friend Judy had on set was the wicket witches actress Margret Hamilton 😢
She is actually really sweet. Margaret Hamilton got a bit of reputation for that role. For it being so scary. So she went on shows like Mr Rogers. For him to dispell that dark cloud that was cast on her. And to show ,see " she is just a sweet old lady. 😢
@@ARC1300 I saw! She was amazing. She was also a kindergarten teacher who loved kids.
She was almost killed on the Set of the Wizard of Oz in a Scene where the Witch Disappeared in a Fiery Explosion.
Margaret was supposed to go through a Trap Door, But somehow the Fireball went off first and She was caught up in It.
Ironic…the Wicked Witch of The West, was actually a sweet woman on the inside…
You heard wrong. She was already friends with Billie Burke, Buddy Ebsen, and Jack Haley from movies she'd done with them before, and quickly made friends with everyone else.
I also heard a story that the lion skins made for the Cowardly Lion's costume weren't tanned correctly and with the combination of the heat of the set and the actor sweating, the costume basically smelled like a dead animal that's been out in the sun and none of the cast really wanted to be around the actor. I wish I could remember where I heard it from.
It doesn't matter where you heard it from, it was wrong. The furriers from whom MGM bought the lion skins knew their business.
“Rest in piss” so pretty much everyone on set 😢
Not everyone
@@ricardozetino6907 ok bud
@@Sleemo-productions what you mean by that ?
@@ricardozetino6907 I’m saying ok bud what do you think I mean I’m saying ok
@@Sleemo-productions oh ok
Honestly a lot of movies from this time had horrible production
It wasn't "horrible," just hard. Movies are still hard to make. Actors are just bigger wimps now.
@@MaskedMan66 yeah got cancer? Deal with it
@@dabatman5187 What does cancer have to do with it?
@@dabatman5187 How about lost limbs, paralysis, radiation, and death?
To be fair, during the depression, they didn’t know asbestos was toxic.
Yeah they just knew it was fire proof and it was in everything especially in paint
This was after the Depression, and the snow was gypsum.
It wasn’t asbestos
It's wild that all of the stuff going on was legal.
i mean- it was the fucking 1930s, everything was legal back then lmao
What "stuff?" Make sure you know the truth from the lies.
@@rtcnoodles What do you think should have been illegal?
@@MaskedMan66my guy you’re taking this to personally
@@MusuemBucket Questions are to be answered, not run away from. Don't wimp out.
I swear, they just wanted to kill the cast
It was probably because they thought the cast was expendable
Nope.
@@Emily-cw7tj No, they were mostly big stars with a lot of clout in Hollywood.
@@MaskedMan66 this was a joke-
@@hexthegoat Couldn't prove it by me.
as a history nerd myself i kinda have to correct morbid on a few things, The reason they used that stuff for the snow ( idk how too spell it lol ) is because at the time it was very cheap and very easy to get your hands on, also the reason the studio made judy do all that too lose weight was because they wanted her to have a more child like body type and because she was a full grown women at the time they had too take extreme measures, obviously what they did too judy was fucked up but i just want to give the proper history behind it ( also the pills they had her on were pills meant to make someone lose their apatite but because she had to take them so often she got addicted ). And one last thing lol, it was a very common thing for female actors to be touched on set so i do think judy was telling the truth when she said the munchkins were doing weird stuff. other then all that this was a very good vid from morbid and i can't wait for more content.
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Hi! Oz fan, here! Majority of the stuff that you’re talking about isn’t… all correct. Like how they put Judy on pills to be on a diet The directors, nor anyone else on set made Judy take any pills (neither 80 cigarettes) It was actually Judy’s mother who did that. Also, they actually used Gypsum for the snow, not asbestos (the bad stuff that gives cancer) Gypsum is harmless btw. “Judy being SA’d/ touched by munchkins”, most likely not true. Since she chose to each lunch with the munchkin cast each day on set. Also, my source is Tori Calamito, who is an Oz historian. And, thank you for allowing me to inform you!
The snow was gypsum, not asbestos. Nothing "extreme" was done as regards Judy, except possibly her corset, which was evidently quite the contraption, created by an eccentric European woman. The term is actresses, and it was never "common" for them to be improperly touched. Judy never said that the Munchkins were "doing weird stuff."
When the studios kept calling when Hamilton was injured, the nurse stood up to her and said she won’t allow them to keep calling and let her recover and that they are lucky she isn’t suing the company. The same thing happened with Buddy Ebsen
No, they didn't, it was her doctor who pitched a hissy, and Miss Hamilton wasn't scheduled to come back for a couple of months anyway.
They couldn’t sue mgm bc then they wouldn’t have jobs
@@nvm9040 Miss Hamilton was a "she," not a "they." There was only one of her. She didn't want to sue, she wanted to finish her work because she loved playing the Wicked Witch.
@@MaskedMan66 I’m talking about the actors in mgm as a general concept
@@nvm9040 Nobody had any reason to sue MGM.
“rest in p*ss” was too nice tbh
mf censored piss ☠
Nobody deserved that.
A dog getting paid more than the actors what are they supposed to do with the money? Not just that but didn't the guy that played the lion have actual Lion skin on him
Buy dog bones and stuff lol. Wth I thought it was a fake fur like flaux fur damn
@@skystoyhunts7225 yeah the video even said it's real.
@@skystoyhunts7225 Fake fur wasn't really as available or real looking back then so they had to use real lion skin.
No, the dog's TRAINER-- who had worked with movie animals since 1929 and also ran a kennel and a trainer's school, and who was present during the whole six months of filming-- was paid more than the Munchkins-- who were extras and only worked for a month and a half. Besides, he only made $25.00 more a week than each of them.
And so what about the lion skin?
This makes the film so much more..disturbing? How unsettling.
I found you.
Get out animal testing profile picture
It's mostly B.S.
The cast didn't find it disturbing at all; they were proud of how it turned out, and among its biggest fans of all time were Ray Bolger, Margaret Hamilton, and Judy Garland.
Making “The Wizard of Oz” was fucking wild. Not to mention cruel beyond belief.
How was it cruel? Yes, Margaret Hamilton got sadly burnt, and the original Woodsman’s makeup caused a sickness in his lungs. But nothing was “cruel”.
@@ShriekingHyperFixatorok
@@ShriekingHyperFixator Thank you!
It was just hard work.
@@ShriekingHyperFixatormiss treating people this way is pretty cruel actually
So strange, that I feel like The Wizard of Oz movie is probably viewed almost every person in the world.
I didn‘t get to see it, idk even know the story lol
Billions have watched it.
You really put the fun in morbid for fun!
Not to mention a whole lot of rubbish.
I'm currently writing a play about the making of The Wizard of OZ film. The show depicts all aspects of the production. The good, bad and dangerous.
I'd love to see it
Send link pls when done
Just make sure everything you depict is true. None of the kak about Judy Garland being hated, drugged, starved, beaten, sexually harassed, raped and all of that B.S. Read these books, you'll find them invaluable: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
Make sure you get your facts right. I strongly urge you to read the books "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
Other books which contain useful bits of information include ”Down the Yellow Brick Road” (1976) by Doug McClelland, “The Oz Scrapbook" (1977) by David L. Greene and Dick Martin, and "The World of Oz" (1985) by Allen Eyles.
@@MaskedMan66 Of course! I've done so much research, that I had to step away from the project for a few weeks before I actually started writing to avoid burn out. The book which you mentioned "The Making Of The Wizard of OZ" has been instrumental to my process.
You should cover the behind the scenes of the exorcist but in detail this time
lots of misfortunes happened during the production of the exorcist such as: people dying post-production, the set burning down because a pigeon was nesting in a circuit box and that fire that burned the set down leaving only Raygen's room untouched by the fire William friedkin slapping a priest named William O'Malley who played father dyer, Linda Blair who plays raygen and Ellen Burstyn playing raygen mum Chris getting permanent life injuries, and so on
Post-production is by definition not "during" production. Linda's character's name was Regan. Linda didn't get any "permanent life injuries."
Not to be rude but when I said people dying post-production I meant people dying after the movie was released or at least finished before it was released
@@CroatiaBall273 Post-production means the putting together of the movie once principal photography is completed. That's when the film is physically edited together and music and sound effects-- and any post-production special effects-- are added in.
I do apologize; I had never heard of any injuries from that movie, so I blithely figured there hadn't been any. But you're right, Linda Blair and Blythe Danner both had their backs pretty badly banged up in a couple of sequences. Apparently, history repeated when Miss Danner reprised her role in _Exorcist: Believer,_ but I don't know the specifics.
Judy Garland deserved better☹
Than what? This movie was hard work, but she had it easier than everyone else.
The Hollywood in 1930's is so fucking ruthless man. Poor Judy Garland.
"Poor Judy Garland" had a ball making this movie. She wasn't bullied, abused, beaten, drugged, starved, force to smoke, sexually assaulted, or raped. The worst thing she had to deal with was her corset, which she found uncomfortable, but never complained about, and the diet of healthy food that she had to eat.
My grandpa was born when the wizard of oz came out and hes still alive
Came out. The actors were adults when it came out, while your grandpa was newborn, which is why he’s still alive
@@lookin457 Judy Garland's stand-in is still alive; she's 104.
Yeah I heard about this a while ago how fucked the production was
You heard wrong. For most of the six months of principal photography, it was business as usual. The accidents and injuries taken all together would have filled up less than a day.
I mean like how they disrespected and mistreated the woman who played Dorothy
@@evanstudios5253 At the time, Judy was a girl, not a woman, and again, you heard wrong. Judy was neither disrespected nor mistreated. Why would anyone have done that? She was the darling of the set and everyone loved her. As Margaret Hamilton once said, "Judy kept us all going."
I met the last three living munchkins at the time in 2011, including the one you singled out (Jerry Maren) and they signed my vhs tape. Thrilled to say I got to meet someone that was in the movie!
I met four of them while they were still with us, including Mr. Maren. Great guy!
Buddy ebsen was originally going to be the scarecrow while Ray Bolger the tin man. But Bolger wanted the scarecrow role because he had great dancing skills (very obvious in the film) so they agreed to switch.
That wasn't quite it. Bolger was the Scarecrow from the start, but his and Ebsen's names got mixed up in news reports, so he went to the suits at MGM to make sure what was what.
Okay so abt the munchkin thing, a lot of ppl don’t know that there was a sort of revamp of the wizard of oz in the 70’s with a cassette rerelease. And in that, the part where the munchkin was hanging looks different. Because it was most likely edited to look like a bird. But old footage of the original still exists where it looks more like a hanging munchkin, so I wouldn’t say that it’s been debunked.
There was no hanged munchkins. They shot that scene before they prepared the munchkinland scene. People almost died on set but nobody actually did.
@@SeyaDiakite7 Nobody "almost died," there were just a few mishaps.
The first videotape release was in 1980.
the 30s was crazy
How so?
i knew that the production was pretty cruel but this is worse than i thought, jesus christ
No need to blaspheme; this is largely B.S.
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Hollywood still gets a way with a lot of bad stuff
That's as may be, but they didn't "get away" with any "bad stuff" with this picture.
Man bro the first time I heard the background of the movie I never saw it the same 😢
You've probably heard a lot of lies and B.S. The cast and crew *loved* the movie.
Oh look at that you finally zoomed your camera out, you're slowly but surely improving so far
Fact: the snow was asbestos
yeah, he already said that
no it was gypsum
Fun fact: It was actually gypsum! Which is harmless! Nice try, though.
@@ShriekingHyperFixator "🤓 Nice try, though."
@@rtcnoodles Correct!
so many people got sick and hurt during this...
One person got sick. About four or five people got hurt. Far worse things have happened to other people on other movies. I'm talking about lost limbs, paralysis, radiation, and death.
Oh my God this day was boring until you uploaded
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Get a kick out of lies and half-truths, do you?
Nice video morbid! I see some new improvements in your videos
This video wants improvement, like accurate information.
I don't doubt her story about Mr. mayer! Shirley temple called him out publicly in an interview in the 80's saying he was like that with Shirley's mom.
Like what?
Fire hair dude love it!
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I Already Binged All Of His Videos In The Span Of A Few Days Last Week!
Not when it's full of kak like this one.
Rest easy toto the dog
Her name was Terry.
Morbid is honestly on the same level as tuv i don't know why he has less subs.😢
Does tuv also spread lies?
@@MaskedMan66 these aren't lies and you aren't worth my time
@@MrRottweiler11 90% fabrication, especially the B.S. about Judy. These books are worth your time: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
Hollywood being evil since those times doesn’t surprise, but sure as hell pisses me off. The studio was deserving of a heavy lawsuit.
This is all rubbish.
This video is full of it.
Subbed, thanks for the video
I didn't know that before it was terrible production and I feel terribly sorry for judy Garland I mean for godsake she's only 16 give her a break you can't just treat her like she your dog and I didn't really know that snow effect may cause people cancer.
miss garland deserved so much better than this
Knock it off; she was not put through 90% of what weird people say she was. In reality, she had as good a time as anyone could have had working under those blazing hot lights. Nobody treated her badly; they'd have had Mervyn LeRoy, Victor Fleming, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, and Bert Lahr to reckon with if they had!
The snow was gypsum, not asbestos.
@@soosibms And she got better than this, because this is largely B.S.
@@MaskedMan66 oh okay
It was gypsum
Awesome Video!
Largely misinformed.
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Im pretty sure the studio wanted to just end everyone in the process
Nope. This video is full of B.S.
OMG HOW THAT IS SOO GOD DAMN SADDDDD BTHAT THEY SEXUALY ABUSED HER ON SET AND DRUGGED HR TO BE THINNER THATS SO F UPP
No, they did not sexually abuse her on the set-- OR ANYWHERE! Get it? They liked her! They weren't about to mistreat her. To reduce her curves, she ate less and also went swimming and hiking with her stunt double.
Please read these books: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
10:44 its a crane
It’s crazy how happy and fun this movie looks but it’s really sum dark and evil stuff about this film
Nothing dark or evil. It was just hard work. This video is full of misinformation.
This is about the umpteen gazillionth video I've seen on the making of this movie, and not to hurt your feelings, but there's really nothing new here, so I'm forced to wonder why you bothered.
Nobody on this movie was underpaid. The Singer Midgets each received $50.00 a week during the time they were getting costume fittings, make-up tests, and doing rehearsals. When the cameras started rolling on the Munchkinland sequence in December of 1938, their pay was doubled, which made it more than most of them were getting in their everyday jobs. Many of them stayed in show business as a result. Mickey Carroll, thanks to his benefactor Zeppo Marx of the Marx Brothers, actually made $500.00 a week, which makes it all the more ironic that when _Wizard_ was completed, he went back to his family's monuments business. All told, they were on the project for a month and a half. Carl Spitz, the trainer of Terry the terrier, worked the entire five-month filming period, and it was he, not the dog, who was paid a weekly sum of $125.00.
Terry's paw was likely only sprained, because she was back within two weeks.
There was no "toxic paint." What got into Buddy Ebsen's lungs was an aluminum powder which was dusted over his quite ordinary white greasepaint. It was also not a case of "the studio" not caring about his health; they just didn't realize at first how severe his reaction (brought on by a congenital bronchial condition) had been. Jack Haley's make-up did, in fact, contain aluminum; it was an aluminum paste. His "severe" eye infection cleared up in four days; you can get an eye infection from any number of things accidentally getting in your eyes. Haley had no further incidents.
Bert Lahr's Lion suit weighed seventy pounds, which was quite enough for him, thanks! 🙂The cast and crew took frequent breaks; Victor Fleming ordered that the lights be shut off every half hour or so in order for everyone to relax and cool off-- and yes, so folks, including Lahr, could get a sip of water. It's still not recommended even now that someone in elaborate prosthetics should eat while wearing them. The ironic thing about Lahr is that he actually gained weight while working on the movie.
Miss Hamilton didn't make her exit via a trap door, but via an elevator. The idea was that she'd be under the set before the flames went up. The elevator worked perfectly, but on about the fourth take, the flames went up too soon. Miss Hamilton wasn't even aware that she was on fire, and couldn't figure out whey stage hands were suddenly all over her to put her out. Her make-up was also not "toxic," but there was a danger of toxicity if the copper in it caught fire, but her make-up man was able to clean it off before that could happen, and the studio doctor saw to her wounds there and then. She herself called her friend to take her home. The studio called to check up on her, but in fact, she had finished her work on the Munchkinland sequence (barring one short shot that she did a few months later), and wasn't required back on the set until February. She only needed a glove for her right hand. Betty Danko was scarred more than burned, and it was not the worst injury she'd sustained in her career; that was a few years earlier when her foot had nearly been bitten off by a mountain lion.
A SWEET STORY: While Miss Danko was laid up in hospital, the cast sent her a copy of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in which they'd all written messages. Miss Hamilton's read, "Between fire and explosions it's been fun! Thank you, Betty dear, for 'taking one' for me. Much love, Mag the Hag." 🙂
As clarified by Oz authorities Jay Scarfone and William Stillman in their 2019 book "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece," the snow was not asbestos, but crushed gypsum, which had been used for snow in movies since the Silent Era.
The biggest lies told about this movie-- and repeated by people who haven't read the right books-- are the ones concerning Judy Garland. The fact is that of all the main cast, she had the easiest time. Victor Fleming and Judy got along like a house on fire. The only names he called her were "Judalein" and "Ange." Judy herself said of him:
"He’s perfectly marvelous. He has the nicest low voice and the kindest eyes. Besides, he realizes that a girl who is sixteen is practically grown-up. He shows me all the courtesies he would to Hedy Lamarr. That’s very important to me."
The only person whom Judy ever claimed called her a "pig with pigtails" was MGM boss Louis B. Mayer, and that only later in life when she liked to tell tall tales to get a rise out of people. Nobody called her fat at that time, but she was required to trim down because of her very mature curves, since she was playing a prepubescent.
*It is time for the "chicken soup, coffee, and cigarettes diet" lie to die.* Judy ate food, primarily vegetables and other healthy things. She drank coffee, yes, as well as tea, milk, and fruit juice. She was at liberty also to drink soda, but she didn't like it. And *she did not smoke.* More words from Judy, taken from an interview given during the making of the film:
"I take awfully good care of myself. I won't ever smoke or drink."
Yes, we know she did both as an adult, but not in her teens, and certainly not while she was making _Wizard._ She did take an appetite suppressant, but she was never underweight. Her addictions came in adulthood and had other causes, most of them to do with her personal life rather than her career.
Judy, being a happy and ebullient teen with a good sense of humor, frequently got giggle fits, and then everyone would just wait until she calmed sown and then they'd get on with things. On one, single, solitary occasion, she got the giggles when the studio was just about to close up for the evening, and they had to get the shot done. Fleming administered a slap to snap her out of it, as one would with someone in hysteria, and then she nailed the take. It was nothing to do with the cost of film (not "film tape"), because MGM had deep pockets, and the movie's budget was close to three million dollars.
What you and so many people leave out is that Fleming hated what he'd done and told John Lee Mahin to break his nose for it. Judy overheard him and kissed his nose instead. She forgave him, and the matter was closed.
The fact that Judy was playing the lead had zilch to do with her salary. In those days, actors were paid according to how long they'd been with a studio or in the acting business in general. In Judy's case, she'd only been with MGM for three years, starting at $100.00 a week, going up exponentially as time went by. In fact, she was to have had an increase to $750.00 a week come 1940, but when _Wizard_ made her a star, her pay zoomed to $2000.00 a week.
Judy was not groped by anybody; she was too feisty for anyone to have gotten away with it. Judy would punch and kick, she was that kind of girl. Sid Luft was full of baloney, as his and Judy's own children would tell you. Lorna and Joey Luft dedicated a lot of time to working with the surviving Munchkins to clear their names of the unfounded-- and frankly bigoted-- lies told about them.
Likewise, while Mayer was undeniably an eccentric and an emotional manipulator, the story of him touching Judy's chest is very likely a lie.
Judy wasn't forced to do anything, you may rest assured on that. As a minor, she was subject to California's child labor laws, which meant that she was only allowed to work for four hours a day; in fact, since time at the studio getting ready was counted as "work," her hair and make-up people put her together at her house before she went to the studio. 🙂 Consider these facts: she stayed friends with her co-stars decades after the movie had wrapped, she always spoke fondly of them, Fleming, and producer Mervyn LeRoy, and of course she adopted "Over the Rainbow" as her personal anthem. After Bert Lahr died in 1967, Judy dedicated a performance of that song to "my dear Cowardly Lion."
You should have mentioned that Judy's overdose involved barbiturates, to which, ironically, she was not addicted.
There was no "hanging Munchkin." In the first place, the clip you show is the many-times-proven fake created by a TH-camr in 2011. In the real movie, it has always been a sarus crane. Look at any legit release of the movie from any year in any format, and there will always be a crane. In any case, the Tin Woodman sequence was filmed a month before the Munchkinland sequence. And my friend, the cameras and all their related equipment were state of the art; MGM was the premiere movie company in those days and had the best of everything. What audiences saw on the big screen in 1939 is what we see in the latest digital release; that's why it's called "restoration!" 🙂
Caren Marsh Doll is still alive. She was Judy's stand-in (and classmate when Judy took her lessons from a tutor during her off time), and turned 104 this year. Many children who filled out the Munchkin population for wide shots of the city are likewise still with us. But yes, given that many of the cast were over thirty, it would be a bit ludicrous to expect them to still be around today.
Nobody on the movie mistreated Judy, as has already been explained.
To sum up, the making of this movie (like thousands of other movies) involved hard work and a lot of sweat, but was certainly not "evil."
I came here to learn more about the production, after watching the video I was freaking out cause thats Wild (not as Wild as the film Roar) but still Wild.
Then I went throught the comments and I realized that you where really mad with the video. Then I read about the books you said and all off that. Your comments makes much more sense than the video and the source it's just way better. Cause the dude fron the vid has as a source ANOTHER TH-cam video and THAT TH-cam video has as a SOURCE! A Tiktok video.
Which means, I havent read those books but is 99% more likely you are more right than the youtuber. So thank you for passionately trying to tell the truth about the production. I'm so glad there werent asbestos and that Judy was well treated, in this movie at least.
Also sorry if something is difficult to understand english is not my native language. Have a nice day.
@@maffius5428 Your English is fine! I wouldn't have known it wasn't your first language if you hadn't said so. 🙂
Thank you very much for your kind words.
thank you!! theres so many rubbish rumors about this movie with no actuql reliable source, only reliable sources ive ever seen have been people sauing the production was fun and good. thank you
@@oogabooga2337 It was hard work under hot lights, but they were a solid team and got along with each other and held each other together.
@@MaskedMan66where do you get this information from? when ever i search anything about this movie its nothing but the infomation in this video with no other sources than simply just what other videos and articles have said. such as where do u find what judy ate during filming?
God, the production on that movie sounded like hell. Learning about how horrible the Director mistreated Judy Garland was terrible
All lies. Here are Judy's own words about Victor Fleming:
"He’s perfectly marvelous. He has the nicest low voice and the kindest eyes. Besides, he realizes that a girl who is sixteen is practically grown-up. He shows me all the courtesies he would to Hedy Lamarr. That’s very important to me."
It was hard work, but those people were tough.
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I mean to be fair, now, they'd probably just hire free volunteers to play the munchkins, and being on screen for a minute or two, that's slightly generous
It's not how much time you're on screen (which was way longer than a minute or two), it's how much actual work you put in.
The dog didn’t get paid the trainer did
Thank you! And he also worked on the whole movie, not just the Munchkinland sequence.
”Rest in piss“ Morbidforfun 2023 11:51
Nobody deserved that.
Here before it blows up (btw I was just in the play the wizard of Oz)
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Who did you play?
Am I remembering correctly that the actor playing the scarecrow also had a bad reaction to his makeup?
No, it just left imprints on his skin for a few weeks; they faded in time.
Love the mullet
date of the great depression is wrong
it started:1929-1933, so that wasn't in the great depression
I know you probably won't read this and probably find it quite annoying but I was looking at the cast 1 cast member is still living Betty Ann Bruno
Also Judy Garland's stand-in, Caren Marsh Doll.
Oh man, that hair is back again and truly baffling.
I actually know about this, Cause I know some info but not all
Much of this "info" is false. Read these books: "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
11.24 not everyone there only 1 that it’s living Caren Marsh Doll Judy Garland’s stand-in she is 105 now in 2024
11:52😂😂😂😂
why does this feel like a SunnyV2 video for some reason lol
Same
And Hollywood still hasn’t changed, and our government allows the actions taking place in there. 😂
The original Tin Man that got sick would also become Jed Clampett in The Beverly Hillbillies.
And Barnaby Jones!
FUN FACT: Buddy Ebsen had a cameo in the feature film version of _The Beverly Hillbillies._ He played Barnaby Jones!
These Oz stories drive me to🍷
They're mostly lies.
This is why I get sick of people moaning about how 'PC' society is now. Do they really want to go back to this?
To what? This is a hugely misinformed video.
Holy shit I just realised how early I am
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wasn't there a theory of a guy in a munchkin suit killing himself in the woods in the background after the tinman and scarecrow encounter the witch?
There was no munchkin hanged. People almost died on set but nobody did. Besides, the scene was made before they prepared the munchkinland scene
It wasn't a theory, it was a lie.
@@SeyaDiakite7 Nobody almost died, there were just a few accidents.
@@MaskedMan66 thats what I said, some almost died during the accidents. Like Buddy Ebsen
@@SeyaDiakite7 Except that nobody almost died; "almost," as the saying goes, "only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades." You don't die from a broken ankle, nor from having your face and hand burned. Ebsen was close to death's door, but that wasn't the result of an accident, that was because of a congenital bronchial condition aggravated by the aluminum powder.
The only person associated with the movie who actually did die while it was being made was Bert Lahr's stuntman, and that was in a traffic accident on his day off.
Leaving another comment to say you’re saying not true things or they were very exaggerated
oh damn i didint know that they were suffering i thought it was normal movie everythint normal
What's "normal" is that movies are hard work. They still are. They weren't suffering, just bearing up under difficult-- but everyday-- conditions.
@@MaskedMan66 ik but that was like not fair and if somebody would do the stuff that the producers did then they'd get sued
@@IReallyLikeTurtlesYay What wasn't "fair?" There was only one producer on this movie (as there is on most movies) and he was well-liked by the people who worked for him. He got on particularly well with Judy because (a) he was a big fan of the work she'd already done in the three years she'd been with MGM, and (b) as a former child actor himself, he knew how to relate to her.
@@MaskedMan66 ig ur right lol
Rizzard of Oz
Wow I'm early
It’s messed up
What is?
..Yeah But So Far As The Wicked Witch Was Concerned The Flying Monkeys Preferred Her That Way 😹
The *Winged* Monkeys hated her.
WSG
Less height less pay
No, the full-sized extras got the same.
The darkside of the rainbow.
More like utter B.S.
There was a Famous Story about one of the Munchkins hanging himself.
It's been Debunked, Though.
They made this scene before preparing the munchkinland scene.
An infamous lie, you mean.
@@SeyaDiakite7 Correct!
Honestly with all the abuse stories, the munchkin hanging is true 100% and they just put the bird in to cover up the kill.
Either the munchkin actor was 3 things.
1. Saw the horrors of the production and probably went through so much trauma he hanged himself.
2. Hanged himself out of guilty for r"" ""g Judy Garland.
3. He did something that pissed off the director so bad that he was murdered for it (probably trying to sue and expose the studio)
@@abstraction6212 There was no abuse. It was just hard work. Everybody who worked on the movie was delighted with the finished product.
1. Nope.
2. Nobody raped anybody.
3. Nope.
The simple fact is that the Tin Woodman sequence was completed a week before any Little People even set foot on the MGM lot. Nobody died on any of the sets.
Damn...
Relax; a lot of this is bullhockey.
@@MaskedMan66 wait, it is?
@@netherfreakultima4498 Sure as shootin'. I'll list you some books to have a look at. "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman.
Those people are the real authorities on this movie, not anyone on TH-cam.
@@MaskedMan66 how so?
can you give evidence please?
(Not saying you're wrong I'm Lagitamently curious)
@@clobertina8176 Scroll up a little and you'll see the titles and authors of three books that everyone needs to read.
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In one of the scenes of the movie i think it was the yellow break road scene but the original version you can see someone hanging themselves. I think it was censored to where you can't see it
Did they actually show someone doing the process of hanging themselves ?
That's a myth
@@adrianrodriguezjr.4050 How do you know ?
There were accidents on set but no one ever died.
People say it’s a munchkin hanged= the scene was shot before preparing the munchkinland scene
People say it’s some woman supposed to play Dorothy that killed herself for not getting the role= nope. Only Shirley Temple and Judy Garland were considered playing Dorothy
@@SeyaDiakite7 What you mean by the scene was shot before preparing the munchkinland scene ?
It's cuz the little bit younger movie thay edited the hanging munchkin and pout a bird
It was always a bird.
Ha dogs get Ton of money BUT THEY GOT INJURED? HOW TERRIBLE
How does $125.00 a week prevent injury?
"Rest in Piss" 💀
Nobody deserved that.
Glade terry was ok but ty god it wasn’t a horse
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I felt bad for all of them
They would not want to be pitied. They were just doing their jobs, and they loved how the movie turned out.
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Awwwwww... Nooooooo... Totos doggo actor was Injured... Poor dog... That's soooo sad...
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They gr*p£d her!? Oh... Oh no...
Judy Garland did NOT deserve that treatment...
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Yeah... The hanging munchkin thing... that is sad...
Why did you feel the need to put time stamps 🙄🙄
She got over it, and came bounding back after two weeks.
No, they didn't. Judy didn't GET any such treatment.
"The hanging munchkin (sic) thing" never happened.
“Rest in piss” 💀
Nobody deserved that.