Maragaret Hamilton in "The Wizard of Oz"-1939-(1/2)

[joshscomputer]

...AND WHY DOES SHE NOT HAVE A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME?

[JodieNoFodie98]

She is A Brilliant Actress

[timothyw98]

as a media student, I think oz was a fantasy world. She calls the women a horrible evil witch, she feels lonely at home and i need of a friend. I think people and oz was made up of her personality.

[BonJoviFan96]

"I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too!" Best line of the whole movie

[ravenandshegofan1234]

6:03

CALL 888! THIS IS A FASHOIN CRIME!

[sdasher69]

When anyone says witch she's the one I think of first she owns this

[fran9860]

margaret hamilton had a dry pussy.

[Edwardwert]

6:53



[DarthWill3]

LOVE this gal!

[Scrabbler27]

I am a 31 year old man and I was crying at the start when toto was going into the basket.

[Blain1971]

A lot of people probably don't know that in the scene where she leaves Munckin land in the puff of smoke and fire, she was actually burned and had to be taken to the hospital. Not quite sure I would have remained with a proect after something like that.

[PuppetPerformance]

@Blain1971 Yep! Her makeup had traces of copper in it ( to make green!) As she goes down, the heat started to melt the copper,The copper in tuen started to eat and melt its way through her skin. 2nd degree burn to her face, 3rd to her hands. I've been told that this ^ is the 'take'.

In the days before MAC, makeup was alot more dangerous!

The original 'Tin Man' also had problems as the power they used caused him to lose his voice and to have breathing difficulties.

[MrTheamazeman]

I learned that the first 20 minutes of the start is black and white then during the time the movie was getting made they invented color for movies so they fought of doing the rest of the movie in color. Fact: Each frame was painted in by hand! Give a thumbs up if this helped.

[rmctoledo]

@MrTheamazeman

Technicolor was around in 1939. The scenes of Dorothy in Kansas were filmed in monochrome (black & white) to portray the simple drab life of Kansas. Color movies in 1939 were for large productions only since it was very expensive. The frames were not painted by hand. They utilized the Technicolor system of the day.

[Bebyko2008]

Back in 1939 they had this kind of color movies ? wtf ?

[stinabinababe]

8:55 i would have said "i'll give YOU your slippers if you give ME your broomstick!

[stinabinababe]

Re: Miss Gulch----If you were lame, you wouldn't be able to walk, so quit overreacting!! Oh how I'd love to shove a vallium or a lorazepam up your rear end! witch!

[mlc2005]

One of the most iconic performances of ALL time. Margaret Hamilton will be a name people know forever!! Simply wonderful.

[ravenandshegofan1234]

If Dorothy was Kiba and Toto was Akamaru...this would have been a whole different story.

[DEMY160]

poor child! her dog was taken away! :(

[Odilwerk]

Wicked Witch of the West was actually just a hard done by ( slightly grouchy sure ) witch in the film.

They kill her sister, steal her inheritance, then march to her home in order to steal her broom too.

All because Gilda was after more power! She lied to Dorothy, knowing all she had to do was click her heels and wish to go home.

Talk about getting nieve kids to do your dirty work or what.

[YouWillDeal]

@Odilwerk Talk about being a cunt, that Glinda! WW of the West was right all along!

[etrax2000]

there are sound tracks from many of the deleted scenes where you can hear Hamilton sayig to someone, possiablity the camerman or the director,, "I don't know if I can make that turn , not with all this,"< then a gentle laugh. then a man says,"don't worry just keep walking backward and we'll pick it up from the other side, hamilton', What about my arm' ? Man : 'Don't worry, we' ll pick it up from the corner, this area will be cleared tommorow, we'll pick it up back then".let's continue

[pinkvespa95]

Galinda and Elphaba!!! :)))))

[LaneCormier]

@pinkvespa95 This isn't Wicked. -_-

[heresjohnny1231]

If there was a play I'd either want to be Dorothy, Glenda, or the Wicked Witch! :D

[jasonr1929]

good job thanks for doing this

[crazylab86]

Now begone! Before someone drops a house on you too!

[Pokemonfan4ever22]

she died at a young age

[joshscomputer]

@Pokemonfan4ever22 She was 82...

[broadwaywannabe1]

so we've go the witches of the west, east, and south.... who's the north? the wizard?

[archsagejulz]

@broadwaywannabe1 Glinda is the Good Witch of the North.

[broadwaywannabe1]

@archsagejulz yea i realized that after i posted it.... oh, well. just switch the "and south.. who's the north?" around and its right :)

[archsagejulz]

@broadwaywannabe1 indeed :P

[ravenandshegofan1234]

*Big Red Cloud*

Munchins: OH SHIZZ!

[ravenandshegofan1234]

Dorothy: You wicked bitch!

Witch: What did you just call me!?

Dorothy: Umm... Itch?

[entertainer1987]

Judy had a very difficult time pretending to hate Maraget in this film. She thought that Maragaret was a very nice lady and didn't like saying things to her like "You go away or I'll bite you myself" or "You wicked old witch!" Also, after Maraget injured herself when going down a trap door in the Muchkinland scene Judy came to visit her in the hospital.

[jammes122]

I love the line "I've sent a little insect on ahead to take the fight out of them" - a reference to The Jitterbug song, which was cut.

[jp3sucks]

King Kong released in 1933, then this was the next big thing, as far as pushing FX history goes.

[therealKINDLE]

How DID they do it! These FX are so incredible for there time.

[shihtzulover24]

I remember watching The Wizard of Oz when I was five. The witch used to scare me every time she came onscreen but now... she's really enjoyable to watch! :D

[DaxterD1]

She was a great actor, I always loved how she flinches about the idea of a house dropping on her XD

[0on0o]

just because you run half the county doesnt mean you own the rest of us!

[pussiologist1]

If they ever do a remake I'm trying out for the part as Witch.

[joshscomputer]

@pussiologist1 I call Scarecrow!

[joshscomputer]

I thought that too; but the line is actually "bring a damage suit"

[TherealRNO]

@GoSkandarKeynes: She was most notably burned in the departure from Munchkinland (the one in the film is the first take, which "ran like clockwork", but afterwards, there was one mistake after another, one of which included the elevator shute failing to catch her when the flames appeared too soon, thus burning her hand and face). The scene in which she was to torch Scarecrow was hard as well, since she was afraid she'd hurt him (and she "fainted dead away" after the shot was done).

[TherealRNO]

@bjoh249: They used a miniature Witch for the castle departure--since ONLY the stairs on which Elphaba corners the 4 characters & the tower room were ACTUAL castle sets (the rest was a matte painting)--and did close-ups of Maggie cackling when required.

[Operaman41]

Has anyone ever noticed where she says "Damn"??

I remember as a child the moment when they sang that High C she was coming!!

[GronHatchat]

Something with poison in it...but attractive to the eye...and soothing to the smell? Hmm....why am I suddenly thinking of Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy? =D

[troylockhart05]

its amazing how we are now in 2011 huh

[yojason1998]

you can tell they cut out a part here at 3:27 to 3:31 she says well my little pretty i can cause accidents too and her mouth goes up and glinda says arent you forgetting the ruby slippers

[TherealRNO]

Yeah. If they would've let Elphie have the slippers, she wouldn't have had a beef with Dorothy, since the Ms. Gulch/Toto deal wasn't finished. If it weren't a dream, it'd make sense that she would have an issue with the girl, but since it was a dream, Almira Gulch & The Witch are two separate beings played by the same person (despite the Cyclone scene, as that was part of the dream). Even Maggie herself said that she loved The Witch but hated Ms. Gulch, because Maggie & Toto got along off-set.

[bellamovie2]

''They're gone!''

I love that part

[joshscomputer]

I've always wondered what happened to Dorothy's Kansan shoes after Glinda magicked the ruby slippers onto her feet. Any theories?

[Pokemonfan4ever22]

so old

[ocnlvr]

@WinterWonder99-Thanks. I might have to read the book.

[GAvillain]

One person has no taste in villains.

[zipjok]

brilliant

glad you mad this

[lookwhatdrugswilldo]

SHE IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER

Went as her for Halloween once(:

[sykning]

Can i just say that she was my favorite character?

[penninefilms]

She was the first really which of film.

[TheLolbot3000]

the effect with the cloud of smoke and fire when se dissapears is pretty good

[TherealRNO]

@TheLolbot3000: Except the second take, in which Maggie received her infamous burns on her hand and face. Never mind that her green make-up was toxic to infected skin.

[ocnlvr]

What is the item her monkey hands her after Dorothy was awakened in the field?

[WinterWonder99]

@ocnlvr It's her "thinking cap" there was a deleted scene in the film where she tells her monkey "Nikko" to give it to her. This scene was also the only time she referred to her head monkey by name and it was cut haha. It's a reference to the book where she has a thinking cap.

[byranntherockstar1]

"I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too!"

[PuffLippy06]

I cannot imagine anyone being a better Witch. Heath Ledger's "Joker" is in the same category. She's a Witch right out of Macbeth. 

[MrBuckley123]

one of the best of all time

[grimalover]

I went to watch a scene with Margaret hamilton, and there were some idiots doing voiceovers...Thank you for playing the real voices.

[furyplum44]

does anyone know what they used to produce that vibrant red smoke?

[dmyerz7]

@furyplum44

A smoke bomb mixture of potassium nitrate, sugar, and organic orange dye was lit underneath the trap door before the door was opened. When the smoke was already filling the chamber the door was hurled back and the witch was very quickly sent upward. She stepped forward onto the ground and they shut the trap door before the smoke disappeared so you couldn't see the hole. Same goes for her exit, as you can see the square shaped trap door opening, full of smoke as she waits to jump down

[furyplum44]

@dmyerz7 Thank you very much =] I always wondered how it was done, and i presumed for the smoke to come up at such a speed there would be a fan or something underneath the trapdoor? same with the Cottage roof dissapearing scene

thanks again

[phantomphreak85]

i can remember being terrified as a child when margaret hamilton changed from ms gulch to the wicked witch of the west... now it's one of my favorite parts of the movie.

[dylnvcufilm]

@phantomphreak85 I agree with you 100%. When I was a kid, I saw it differently, though. Because it was sepia toned and the harsh lighting, her caped formed an effect that looked like it was on fire! I thought THAT was terrifying.

[snakes3425]

@phantomphreak85

and to think she was a kindergarden teacher in her day job, and she was nearly killed when in the Munchkinland Scene (the trapdoor became delayed and she got caught in the fire ball)

[MegaCrazygirl18]

9:00 OUCH! I bet that hurt!

[AzulaLover1]

I'D BITE THAT LADY MYSELF TOO

[XxGirlTankxX]

I love this woman, she's the greatest! I wish I could do the witch as well as she does!

[darthvandola]

why wasn't she nominated? she was fantastic!

[elvisfan22]

@darthvandola Who knows. Another fun fact is that Hamilton was in the original horror film "13 Ghosts" (1960). They remade it in 2001 with Tony Shalhoub. What I hate is that hardly anyone knows it was remade and that Hamilton starred in it.

[etrax2000]

@darthvandola she was.. hatie macdaniels from gone with the wind won

[Mspendragon1972]

@darthvandola ...it was ALL ABOUT GLAMOUR back then... sadly :(