Oz, Wicked

"The Wizard of Oz" is America's favorite children's book. And among critics and librarians, it was once the most despised.
It's widely known now that the cinematic adaptation tells the tale of how the Wicked Witch of the West from the 1939 original ...
The studio took extreme measures to ensure 17-year-old Judy Garland was big-screen ready. She had a strict diet and took ...
I grew up watching The Wizard of Oz; I played it on repeat as a little kid. However, I hadn’t revisited it until after I saw ...
Author and 'Oz' expert John Fricke separates fact from fiction about the 1939 classic movie The Wizard of Oz is one of the ...
With Thanksgiving behind us, it’s full steam ahead into the Christmas season — and that means it’s Christmas movie season.
It’s a timeless classic. And when these four words are spoken – “The Wizard of Oz” – almost everyone who hears them will have ...
His salary for the film, according to Fricke: $72,000 (around $1.63 million today). Jack Haley and Bert Lahr, who played the ...