Judy Garland: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [part 3 of 4] (1990)

[waitwtfisgoingon]

judy garland was much more than just a little girl from Kansas.........

[ForensicsOnTheScene]

I saw the Wizard of Oz stoned once... best movie EVER!!!!

[BasilSherlockson]

I actually have a VHS copy of the movie that has been autigraphed by several of the remaining munchkins, including Jerry Maren. :) I don't often think about it, but it is probably one of my most prized possessions.

[princesslwin]

Does anyone agree that Margaret Hamilton has an uncanny resemblance to Amy Farrah Fowler from The Big Bang Theory?

[16kynewell]

LOL..... Singer Midgets

[christo930]

While all this sweetness and love is going on film, the world is entering the worst 6 years in it's history with 55 million men women and children killed, Europe's cities destroyed and 40% of US productive capacity going towards bombs, and other items of war. Adolf Hitler is about to create Auschwitz, ghettos, mass killings of Russians, Jews and others and both sides (axis and allies) perform war crimes unthinkable until that point. This story needs a little dose of reality.

[Leask17]

@christo930 This film was probably a nice escape for people in a time of such despair.

[christo930]

@Leask17 You are probably right, but was just putting the film in it's historic context, middle of the depression and released right before the beginning of the European theater of war (the war in the pacific started a few years before) and 6 years of massive suffering.

[juicymegan123]

love that movie it would of been awesome if sherly timple was in it!

[taypar11]

The old studio system was bad in many ways, but in some ways it was good. Oz probably couldn't have been made today because of egos and commitments. Having three dircetors would never happen today. Great work on special effects by Gillespie is nothing short of briliant....and all without a blue screen or computers!

[MckyMseNTarotCrds]

The Jack Haley/Bert Lahr reclining board story: haha. Classic.

[WhatsAYak]

@MckyMseNTarotCrds - Jack censored it in that particular retelling...he's typically quoted Lahr as saying "that sonuvabitch/bastard can sleep on a meathook". :-D

[MckyMseNTarotCrds]

The tornado story and the falling house: I think the way they did special effects back then was so cool. Way better than the go to CGI today. It just looks cooler. I guess it would be cost prohibitive to do things that way now. It's just so much cooler looking that all that usual green-screen stuff.

[EmilyGreene1984]

Poor Margaret Hamilton

[bigjmac0816]

drunk Munchkins would have been awesome in the movie

[arnoldrm0123]

@bigjmac0816 I know right!? lol