Does any one know for the 75th Anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz" will a remake be made? I know it could never compare, but I thought since it is going to be 75 years in 2014. This will be great to bring back memories, collectables and to show the young people of how a classic is made.
Maggie Hamilton was an absolutely wonderful woman. She devoted much of her life to helping children. She lived a full life and died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 82.
This movie scared the be-jabbers out of me as a kid, but it is so nice to see the human element behind the making of the movie. This is a great reminder of how powerful acting can be :)
I will never understand how Judy Garland could possibly manage to think that she was fat and ugly. She was a beautiful girl with the prettiest smile. I WISH I looked like she did.
@bladesofglory12 Because she was a child when hired and from the start they told her she was fat and not pretty enough to be in competition with the fully developed pretty women in Hollywood. By the time she was older and there were people to tell her otherwise, it was too late. They had already poisoned her head with those "You're ugly!" thoughts. I think that's absolutely terrible. They didn't need to put her on a chicken soup diet. She'd have grown to look stunning otherwise.
Just before she died, she told someone, "Well, you can tell them that the wicked witch is really dead." I was terribly fightened of her in the movies as a child and when I see it, it still bothers me. Sure was a good actress.
do you have the footage of ray bolger and judy behind the scenes? it contains scenes with ray bolger and a crow, and he and judy laughing. i really want to see it again.
THE DREAMS OF MR MULDOON is now available on AMAZON KINDLE for 2.99.The publishers said this novel would make a great film.If you like the Wizard of Oz you will like this novel too.
Dear Take A Shower,Thank Judy's Mom(Mrs.Ethel Gumm)and those damn doctors that that greedy,abuisve and stupid jerk Mr.L.B.Mayer hired to give Poor Judy those drugs that turned her into a pill popping junkie.If they tried doing that to her today?
Those fools would would be in jail,they'd be sued and MGM would be a parking lot.
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@xNeptuneRisingx. Judy Garland was a pathetic drunkard and druggie. Her children hated her and she died because of her own actions. She was a real loser and the greaseball she married smelled like garlic.
The color tv interview that Maggie Hamilton did here..this was for the first real tv documentary dedicated to the film"The Wizardry Of Oz"produced and hosted by film historian:Aljean Harmetz
@butchyboxer No that's an urban legend. Totally untrue, but it's one of those things people insist upon. There are claims you can see it in one of the movie scenes but it's quite simply as the British would say "completely bollocks."
I still can't believe that this movie was made in 1939. they did a great job with the special effects! besides that, the witch is the best one, i've ever seen!
This is a stupid and odd question, but in the scene were Ms. Gulch was going up to visit the Gale's Family farm, did Margaret Hamilton learn how to ride the bike, or did she ride a bike her entire life? She's really good at it!
Wow! I knew those costumes were extremely discomforting and unbearable, but they put on their happy faces to get through the long hours. The actors had to drink their lunches while in their costumes, and I can only imagine how terrible that was.
Christ, the make-up they used for them was dangerous..lol the copper almost burning into her face, and the aluminum dust makeup that coated Buddy Ebsens lungs.
The 'scarecrow' has the same exact speech impediment as Barbara Walters. But it doesn't really sound bad. Boy the two sound like brother and sister.
If you get a chance to visit Wamego, Kansas where the Wizard of Oz museum is, Margaret Hamilton's son goes to speak there and will have lunch with the guests. Super guy! His stories about his mum are great.
@mundymanor: Yeah. I worked there for a time. Oztoberfest is brilliant. You get the Baum desendants, the children of main movie cast members, the surviving Munchkins at ages 90+, the guy who voices the documentary, the guy who penned the first definitive Munchkin-centric book, and even some of the collectors who've kept keepsakes from anything Oz-related. It would be nice to have Idina or Krisitina show up for Wicked's sake, but oh well...You can't have everything!
No Doubt that when Margaret found out that her 3 year old Son watched The Wizard Of Oz and her Son wasn't mad that his Mom played The Wicked Witch that made Margaret Very Proud No Doubt! It's amazing that Awesome Actors and Actresses can play Bad People in Movies and in real Life there Nice in Person! Jack Young saved Margaret's Life!!! Awesome Job Jack Young for saving Margaret's Life after she got Burned from the fire on her face!!!
@GhostbusterFan10001 SCARY! Not hard enough to cool her face from the burn but that added drama of getting the copper off must have been pretty scary.
You got that right!!! Thank God that Guy saved her Life because I'd be scared too if that happend to me!!! Margaret said that too that Guy saved her Life!!!
It's very sad that Margaret Hamilton had Fire on her face when she played The Wicked Witch and Thank God that she had Help because the Guy saved her life when he and Margaret ran to the First aid Station. I can tell that Margaret was a Nice Lady and she was Shocked to play The Wicked Witch. Her 3 year old Son wasn't mad that his Mom played The Wicked Witch in the Movie. I was Young when Margaret Died in 1985. R.I.P. Your a Wonderful Person!!!
Yeesh, you can't help but sympathize with these guys, huh? Must've been terrible, but I sure am gladthey put up with it and gave us this wonderful movie.
@pokegirl207 tHEY filmed the rest of the movie out of sequene and put the pieces of the film in the order that they wrote the story and as for deaths in films many stunt people have been killed in films even some stars of films have been electrocuted and shot by real guns that they though t were fake. Even too much blasting powder for smoke has injured many people.. most of it kept quiet by threats of never working again or payng people off with money.
Copper makeup...............no one knew how Dangerous it was.........I hope Hollywood and people learned from Margaret Hamilton!............She was a Great Actress and Villain!...............
is the witch (margret) saying in the scene we see in the movie wizard of oz where the smoke comes up and she disappears, the scene where she got hurt because when it went down smoke stuff was coming down on her face? it is that scene we see in the movie right? or did she say it was like...the first take they did that wasnt' in the movie?
As she relates it - The first take went fine, and that's the one we see in the movie. However, they recorded a second take (not the one seen in this clip), and that is the one which went wrong.
@FromA2mee the first take we see in the movie went great but there was a second take that they did after right before lunch and everyone was rushing so the timing was bad. and her son was younghe went to sleep over a friends house she said and she didnt want him to see the movie because of what he would think of her so when she was came to get him she was upset he saw the film but hamilto her son was happy.
Margaret Hamilton and her flying Monkeys scared the bejeezous out of me when I was a little kid and watched the Wizard of Oz. I wished I could have met her later and thanked her. She definitely made the magic happen for all of us. What a performance!
I remember meeting Margaret Hamilton and Ray Bolger back in the late 60's and both of them delighted and charmed me with their stories of the Wizard Of Oz.
A perfect moment to be a kid! I couldn't get enough!! :) I just found this and it brought back some great memories...
Jerry Maren was one of the Lollipop Guild munchkins, and is 90 years old. The main trumpeter was Karl Slover (91 yrs old). Ruth Duccini was a munchkin villager and she is 92 years old. Margaret Pellegrini, the "sleepyhead" munchkin is 86 years old.
This is and will always be the most wonderfull musical movie in history. The actors were sometimes treated so badly and worked so hard , with little time to eat or relax. Judy especialy worked so hard and still remained a wonderful person, and gave the adoring public so much of herself. We miss you Judy. We miss you all.
Thanks to all these great people who made this great movie.
Margaret Hamilton scared and still scares me to this day as the wicked witch, surely her portrayal of the witch is the template for every pantomime witch since.
My favorite Margaret Hamiton story is where she auditioned for the Wizard of Oz and got the part that she is most famous for. She was so excited that when she got home she couldn't wait to tell her kids. She burst out and said, "I just got cast in the Wizard of Oz and guess what role they want me to play?" Without hesitation her kids exclaimed, "Well, the wicked witch of course." To see and hear her tell it is priceless. She was so charming, funny and a great actress.
I've only ever seen Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch, or as Cora in the 1970s Maxwell House commercials ("Good to the last drop"), so it's funny seeing her here, just as herself.
Margaret Hamilton was a unique American institution: nobody remotely like this original lady who was a sweet woman in real life - who loved children - but scared millions of them ironically: and we loved her for it!!
@TheIzobo1 Hello, Well all the main cast have died (Garland, Bolger, Lahr, Haley, Burke, Hamilton, Morgan) But I am pretty sure a few Munchkins are still alive. :-)
@YourOasis97 said <i think the last munchkin actor died some months ago.>
No, he wasn't the last (Meinhardt Raabe, the munchkin coroner, died a couple of months ago). But Jerry Maren from the Lollipop Guild is still living & even still acting. He's probably about 90 now. Margaret Pellegrini & a couple of others are also living.
@CliffmountPictures - And it's funny how Buddy Ebsen, who wound up being replaced and never appeared in the movie, far outlived any of his Oz castmates, having passed away in 03!
@4hischurch - Margaret Hamilton and Ray Bolger lived the longest of all of them, Hamilton died in 1985 and Bolger in 1987. Jack Haley wasn't too far behind, he passed away in 1979. They may be gone but they are immortalized in this Classic, Classic film, as well as the others they did.
@TheIzobo1 - Meinhardt Raabe (9-2-1915 - 4-9-2010), played the Munchkin coroner that recently died of a heart attack in Florida at age 94. He was the last surviving cast member with any dialogue in the film. 4:56 pm April 25 2010
@sk8er2859 There are still a few living Munchkins, but Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Coroner, was the last surviving Munchkin with significant dialogue. He died three months ago.
@lisa4615 - Not quite...Jerry Maren (of the Lollipop Guild) is still w/us, as are Karl Slover, Betty Ann (Bruno) Cain, Margaret Pellegrini (who played a Sleepyhead), and a few others.
watching this makes you realise what professional actors are, not the prissy little sensitive and demanding primadonnas today.... most of whom don't have the talent these people had.
@playgirlc - AMEN to what you said. The weenies & WHINERS of today couldn't hold a candle to the great gifted actors of yesteryear, not only in TALENT but in STAMINA. 5:23 pm April 25 2010
@gregamo yes i agree with you, she looked like she just so happy to be where she was even while she had 2nd degree burns on her face nd its sad tht they had to work those incredibly long hrs
Yup. Shoshana Bean (her replacement on Bway) got her boot heel caught in the trap door that goes up for No Good Deed. Trapdoors and green witches, i tell ya...
Mr.Jack Young was one of the makeup artist working on "The WizardOf Oz"and Thank God.He saved Poor Maggie or she was have been seriously disfigured for life.
Kudos to Angela Lansbury for narrating this video so superbly and articulately. She starred opposite Burt Lahr on Broadway in her Broadway debut in 1957. Today, in 2010, she is still appearing on Broadway 8 nights a week in "A Little Night Music" in a part for which she has won renowned and unanimous critical and popular appraise. Go and see her if you can! She was one of the very few who tried to help Judy back in her dark days, it must be said.
I am almost certain I read it in Angela's biography. It's called "Balancing Act" and it's written by Martin Gottfried. She gave Judy her support when she expressed interest - actually, more than interest, desperation - in being Angela's replacement in "Mame." The producers visited Judy's house and Jerry Herman even helped her audition for the show, but unfortunately it became clear she was, for many reasons, unable to do it.
You're very welcome. I recommend the biography very much if you even have mild interest in Angela or the eras that her career encompassed.
If you're interested in another Judy reference Elaine Stritch also has a wonderful - and comical - recollection of a fun night partying it up with Judy in the DVD of her phenomenal one-woman show "Elaine Stritch: At Liberty." I could recount it but it will have more panache if you experience it firsthand.
Thank you:) I get that a lot with family, etc..I'm very happy I have a taste for Judy and Oz, it's really a shame they've all passed on too. It's devastating.
this film i my fav film of all times i never get bourd watching it when i was growing up and now my 9 year loves this film and watchs it at least 2 times a week when shes at my mum and dads and when ever i go and pick her up after i finsh work from my mum and dad i cant leave the house till its finsh my dad said shes justed like me when i was a kid allways watching wizard of oz ,chitty chitty bang bang and the sound of music my litty girl even maged to get her dad in to the wizzard of oz to
Does any one know for the 75th Anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz" will a remake be made? I know it could never compare, but I thought since it is going to be 75 years in 2014. This will be great to bring back memories, collectables and to show the young people of how a classic is made.
toborthegreat 2 weeks ago
@toborthegreat I think it would be really interesting, but it MUST MUST MUST follow this sort of genuine hard work and talent that we see here.
joshscomputer 3 days ago
Wow there was copper in the makeup?!? What kinds of makeup was it lol
stevmar96 1 month ago
Margaret Hamilton...I just wanted you to know you scared the " Sugar Honey Ice Tea" out of me as a kid....
But as a grown up, I realized that if a Villain in a movie could scare me...they were an A+++ Actor.
The only only Villain that scared me that much was the Man who played KAN in Star Trek.....
You are one of the best Actresses of the 20th century. Hollywood can't make them like they used to.
But actresses like you get to live forever, in our dreams, and nightmares!
RIP. *crackles*
equarg 2 months ago 4
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equarg 2 months ago
Margaret Hamilton scared me growing up. Glad to see what kind of warm and nice person she was :)
xxcharmed1xx 2 months ago
@xxcharmed1xx agree i had nightmares about the witch lolz
gizarangi 3 weeks ago
Judy Garland was so beautiful.
TheSway93 2 months ago 4
Maggie Hamilton was an absolutely wonderful woman. She devoted much of her life to helping children. She lived a full life and died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 82.
trwent 2 months ago
Does anyone else find Margaret Hamilton pretty at 3:23?
millers3888 4 months ago 4
@millers3888 I think so too, also at 2:03. I don't see why everyone used to say she was ugly.
joshscomputer 3 months ago
@millers3888 If you find LAWRENCE WELK pretty, maybe.
Otherwise that face could scare buzzards off a gut wagon.
GooglFascists 3 months ago
@GooglFascists that is mean
Annabear2628 2 months ago
This movie scared the be-jabbers out of me as a kid, but it is so nice to see the human element behind the making of the movie. This is a great reminder of how powerful acting can be :)
numoneuncfan 4 months ago
God how scary a story
MyGward 5 months ago
I will never understand how Judy Garland could possibly manage to think that she was fat and ugly. She was a beautiful girl with the prettiest smile. I WISH I looked like she did.
bladesofglory12 7 months ago 6
@bladesofglory12 Because she was a child when hired and from the start they told her she was fat and not pretty enough to be in competition with the fully developed pretty women in Hollywood. By the time she was older and there were people to tell her otherwise, it was too late. They had already poisoned her head with those "You're ugly!" thoughts. I think that's absolutely terrible. They didn't need to put her on a chicken soup diet. She'd have grown to look stunning otherwise.
DisWldFrk90 6 months ago 4
@DisWldFrk90 I agree.
bladesofglory12 6 months ago
No child , what have seen this film, can forget the face of the Wizard of OZ.
The best witch ever!!
Dancesbetweenstars 7 months ago 3
2 Miss Gulches disliked this video
AdIgnorantiam 8 months ago 5
Marget Hamilton would later reprise her role as the witch on Sesame Street in 1974.
patrickmgaddis 9 months ago 3
@patrickmgaddis really? wow
SoJustCool 8 months ago
@SoJustCool "Wow" is the word for it, all right. I hope they have that available on YouTube.
disneyrangerblue02 8 months ago
oh man,i hope the cowardly lion didn't gas out the cast................courage pppppppppppppttt.excuse me i made a smelly..
auggdogrules 9 months ago
How intelligent for someone to be smart enough to react to the situation with the copper in the makeup!
tristan01101 9 months ago 5
my favorite movie ever ever since i was little i lost this movie when i was little want it back again.
BlondiefaceexD 9 months ago
Just before she died, she told someone, "Well, you can tell them that the wicked witch is really dead." I was terribly fightened of her in the movies as a child and when I see it, it still bothers me. Sure was a good actress.
Songsmirth 10 months ago 4
Did anyone else notice that NOBODY said "like" while talking? Oh the old days...
singingshiningstar 10 months ago 130
@singingshiningstar I fully agree with you. Thank you for putting that out there. I wish I was alive in those days.
Cance251 5 months ago
@Cance251 :) your welcome. i wish i lived there too. but i do love it the way it is too..
singingshiningstar 5 months ago
@singingshiningstar Good point. When did that word used that way creep into our language?
Jayee123 4 months ago 2
@Jayee123 I dont know, but whoever did cursed my language. I use it like, way to much.
singingshiningstar 4 months ago
@singingshiningstar like i like dont like know like what like ur like talking like about like
weatherfreak123 3 months ago
do you have the footage of ray bolger and judy behind the scenes? it contains scenes with ray bolger and a crow, and he and judy laughing. i really want to see it again.
guntzborg 10 months ago
THE DREAMS OF MR MULDOON is now available on AMAZON KINDLE for 2.99.The publishers said this novel would make a great film.If you like the Wizard of Oz you will like this novel too.
MrWhiteknight7 10 months ago
Dear Take A Shower,Thank Judy's Mom(Mrs.Ethel Gumm)and those damn doctors that that greedy,abuisve and stupid jerk Mr.L.B.Mayer hired to give Poor Judy those drugs that turned her into a pill popping junkie.If they tried doing that to her today?
Those fools would would be in jail,they'd be sued and MGM would be a parking lot.
TheStanbabe 11 months ago 13
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@xNeptuneRisingx. Judy Garland was a pathetic drunkard and druggie. Her children hated her and she died because of her own actions. She was a real loser and the greaseball she married smelled like garlic.
TakeAShowerStinky 11 months ago
She still scares the he'll out of me:
that wicked old witch:
Favorite movie of my life.
willypdyer 11 months ago 2
Too bad Judy Garland turned into a pathetic drunk and druggie!
TakeAShowerStinky 11 months ago
The color tv interview that Maggie Hamilton did here..this was for the first real tv documentary dedicated to the film"The Wizardry Of Oz"produced and hosted by film historian:Aljean Harmetz
TheStanbabe 11 months ago
Does anyone know if a munckin really hung himself on set. I heard it today but didn't beleive it
butchyboxer 11 months ago
@butchyboxer No that's an urban legend. Totally untrue, but it's one of those things people insist upon. There are claims you can see it in one of the movie scenes but it's quite simply as the British would say "completely bollocks."
pleasuretrip 11 months ago
I still can't believe that this movie was made in 1939. they did a great job with the special effects! besides that, the witch is the best one, i've ever seen!
sounds73 11 months ago
@sounds73 Nobody has ever done a better wicked witch than Margaret Hamilton!
dallaskeffer 11 months ago 3
@dallaskeffer ya she did a great job
moneyfreak1231 11 months ago
Why would copper eat your face?
waffeboy 1 year ago
@waffeboy im pretty sure its corosive if its in a liquid state, but dont quote me on it.
SnappyTune22 11 months ago
This is a stupid and odd question, but in the scene were Ms. Gulch was going up to visit the Gale's Family farm, did Margaret Hamilton learn how to ride the bike, or did she ride a bike her entire life? She's really good at it!
protectorofillinois2 1 year ago
Wow! I knew those costumes were extremely discomforting and unbearable, but they put on their happy faces to get through the long hours. The actors had to drink their lunches while in their costumes, and I can only imagine how terrible that was.
protectorofillinois2 1 year ago
Christ, the make-up they used for them was dangerous..lol the copper almost burning into her face, and the aluminum dust makeup that coated Buddy Ebsens lungs.
PenItFoMeYo 1 year ago
2:31
she kind of old there
so this must have been, what? 60 years ago?
nickmandl 1 year ago
@nickmandl These interviews were done in the late 70s or early 80s. So more like 25 or 30 years ago.
ChristianGreenia 11 months ago
I think Margarets smile at the end is unexpectedly pretty.
phoneke 1 year ago
Why was Margaret upset that her son had watched the Wizard of Oz- and of her being the Wicked Witch? Sorry
BlueRimmedGlasses 1 year ago
The 'scarecrow' has the same exact speech impediment as Barbara Walters. But it doesn't really sound bad. Boy the two sound like brother and sister.
If you get a chance to visit Wamego, Kansas where the Wizard of Oz museum is, Margaret Hamilton's son goes to speak there and will have lunch with the guests. Super guy! His stories about his mum are great.
mundymanor 1 year ago
@mundymanor: Yeah. I worked there for a time. Oztoberfest is brilliant. You get the Baum desendants, the children of main movie cast members, the surviving Munchkins at ages 90+, the guy who voices the documentary, the guy who penned the first definitive Munchkin-centric book, and even some of the collectors who've kept keepsakes from anything Oz-related. It would be nice to have Idina or Krisitina show up for Wicked's sake, but oh well...You can't have everything!
TherealRNO 7 months ago
My god poor maggie
RaeRae914 1 year ago
No Doubt that when Margaret found out that her 3 year old Son watched The Wizard Of Oz and her Son wasn't mad that his Mom played The Wicked Witch that made Margaret Very Proud No Doubt! It's amazing that Awesome Actors and Actresses can play Bad People in Movies and in real Life there Nice in Person! Jack Young saved Margaret's Life!!! Awesome Job Jack Young for saving Margaret's Life after she got Burned from the fire on her face!!!
GhostbusterFan10001 1 year ago 5
@GhostbusterFan10001 SCARY! Not hard enough to cool her face from the burn but that added drama of getting the copper off must have been pretty scary.
jenbanter 1 year ago
@jenbanter
You got that right!!! Thank God that Guy saved her Life because I'd be scared too if that happend to me!!! Margaret said that too that Guy saved her Life!!!
GhostbusterFan10001 1 year ago
It's very sad that Margaret Hamilton had Fire on her face when she played The Wicked Witch and Thank God that she had Help because the Guy saved her life when he and Margaret ran to the First aid Station. I can tell that Margaret was a Nice Lady and she was Shocked to play The Wicked Witch. Her 3 year old Son wasn't mad that his Mom played The Wicked Witch in the Movie. I was Young when Margaret Died in 1985. R.I.P. Your a Wonderful Person!!!
GhostbusterFan10001 1 year ago 3
Yeesh, you can't help but sympathize with these guys, huh? Must've been terrible, but I sure am gladthey put up with it and gave us this wonderful movie.
Trekkietothemaxx 1 year ago 2
my all time favourite movie,thanks for uploading .xx
MultiKez2010 1 year ago 3
If that was the first scene of the movie for the witch... then how did she do the rest of the movie?
i can not belive that some of the actors and actresses almost died in the movie because of their makeup.
pokegirl207 1 year ago
@pokegirl207 tHEY filmed the rest of the movie out of sequene and put the pieces of the film in the order that they wrote the story and as for deaths in films many stunt people have been killed in films even some stars of films have been electrocuted and shot by real guns that they though t were fake. Even too much blasting powder for smoke has injured many people.. most of it kept quiet by threats of never working again or payng people off with money.
etrax2000 1 year ago
thank you whatsak i love the movie & i am in my 40ish :-0
lisa4615 1 year ago
These casting videos are absolutely fascinating! Thank you for them.
stenocruiser 1 year ago 67
@stenocruiser You're Welcome :-)
CliffmountPictures 1 year ago 16
@stenocruiser Yes! Outstanding job!
Glinkaism1 1 year ago
Copper makeup...............no one knew how Dangerous it was.........I hope Hollywood and people learned from Margaret Hamilton!............She was a Great Actress and Villain!...............
redmark19666 1 year ago 2
The Prehistoric Star Wars...............Still the Best Movie of all time!
redmark19666 1 year ago
betty anne bruno was a tv reporter for channel2 news in the san francisco-oakland bay area for years and was a munchkin in the W of OZ
UNDERGROUND2000 1 year ago
judy garland is still the most beautiful actress.
soccerchic99100 1 year ago
i wish she got to see WICKED!!!!!!!
micMAXkey 1 year ago
OMG MAKEUP BACK THEN WERE SO DANGEROUS
thedancegroupstudio1 1 year ago 2
0:30 she really was pretty. shes free now!
theflowshow1 1 year ago
@theflowshow1 My thoughts exactly! A wonderful smile, I love it!!
scorpietta 1 year ago
is the witch (margret) saying in the scene we see in the movie wizard of oz where the smoke comes up and she disappears, the scene where she got hurt because when it went down smoke stuff was coming down on her face? it is that scene we see in the movie right? or did she say it was like...the first take they did that wasnt' in the movie?
FromA2mee 1 year ago
@FromA2mee
As she relates it - The first take went fine, and that's the one we see in the movie. However, they recorded a second take (not the one seen in this clip), and that is the one which went wrong.
dazzababes 1 year ago
@FromA2mee the first take we see in the movie went great but there was a second take that they did after right before lunch and everyone was rushing so the timing was bad. and her son was younghe went to sleep over a friends house she said and she didnt want him to see the movie because of what he would think of her so when she was came to get him she was upset he saw the film but hamilto her son was happy.
thewizfan78 1 year ago
@thewizfan78
I didn't know that Margaret was upset that her Son saw the Wizard Of Oz! At least her 3 year old Son was Happy after he saw The Wizard Of Oz!
GhostbusterFan10001 1 year ago
These people and this movie will live on.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 1 year ago
1939 was a good year in American film..... Gone With the Wind and the Wizard of Oz
SnickleFritz79 1 year ago 4
This movie molded Judy's coffin.. Not the movie or even MGM"s fault... this is where it began though...RIP Judy..
jamycraballen69 1 year ago
Margaret Hamilton and her flying Monkeys scared the bejeezous out of me when I was a little kid and watched the Wizard of Oz. I wished I could have met her later and thanked her. She definitely made the magic happen for all of us. What a performance!
barryb83110 1 year ago 5
that is SO interesting i never knew that
1215aphrodite 1 year ago
I laugh when today's actors talk about suffering for thier craft. Try being a cast member in TWofOZ. Effing pussies.
TheRadar77 1 year ago 5
Great. For Judy Garland it was the hardest, her work schedule. She was wearing a wig. She had to wear something tight.
nellie2581 1 year ago
SACRAFICE!
packleader1215 1 year ago
I remember meeting Margaret Hamilton and Ray Bolger back in the late 60's and both of them delighted and charmed me with their stories of the Wizard Of Oz.
A perfect moment to be a kid! I couldn't get enough!! :) I just found this and it brought back some great memories...
strangebeautifullife 1 year ago 2
@strangebeautifullife you met them? oh man,that must have been awesome. your so lucky.
macyjrey 1 year ago
I feel bad for Bert.
SlitMouthWoman 1 year ago
Jerry Maren was one of the Lollipop Guild munchkins, and is 90 years old. The main trumpeter was Karl Slover (91 yrs old). Ruth Duccini was a munchkin villager and she is 92 years old. Margaret Pellegrini, the "sleepyhead" munchkin is 86 years old.
tallgirl15 1 year ago
Judy Garland looked so pretty with red hair, such a beautiful girl, its a shame what that studio did to her.
maleficentdiva 1 year ago
The test footage was in colour? This must have been a VERY expensive film.
bobbobato 1 year ago 2
This is and will always be the most wonderfull musical movie in history. The actors were sometimes treated so badly and worked so hard , with little time to eat or relax. Judy especialy worked so hard and still remained a wonderful person, and gave the adoring public so much of herself. We miss you Judy. We miss you all.
Thanks to all these great people who made this great movie.
Tinmansplace 1 year ago 3
The end of this with Maraget smiling, green makeup and all... She DOES look very pretty. Not drop-dead goregous, but still quite pretty.
BlueJeanBaby012 1 year ago 2
Judy was so goregous.
BlueJeanBaby012 1 year ago
So the fire got the wicked witch melting, melting.
MegaBoxer77 1 year ago
Margaret Hamilton scared and still scares me to this day as the wicked witch, surely her portrayal of the witch is the template for every pantomime witch since.
okee9 1 year ago
ohh poor lady. i feel bad for her. that must've been horrible to have your face burning off.
and why would they put copper in makeup if your face is gonna catch on fire??
jalcrox2 1 year ago 2
@jalcrox2 I assume for the green color. Copper has a green color to it so some form of copper prob was there for that green color. Just a guess.
TruthSurge 1 year ago 2
@jalcrox2 This was back in 1939. Make-up has come a long way since then, lol
Edustin 1 year ago 3
thts soo scaryy! like she coodv burnd
her whole face off! omgg!
t0mb0yAtHeart9327 1 year ago
My favorite Margaret Hamiton story is where she auditioned for the Wizard of Oz and got the part that she is most famous for. She was so excited that when she got home she couldn't wait to tell her kids. She burst out and said, "I just got cast in the Wizard of Oz and guess what role they want me to play?" Without hesitation her kids exclaimed, "Well, the wicked witch of course." To see and hear her tell it is priceless. She was so charming, funny and a great actress.
SThompsonRAMM 1 year ago 2
I've only ever seen Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch, or as Cora in the 1970s Maxwell House commercials ("Good to the last drop"), so it's funny seeing her here, just as herself.
mthivier 1 year ago 4
thank you cliffmountpictures for these uploads.
AmbiencePhotography 1 year ago
thank you cliffmountpictures for these uploads....
AmbiencePhotography 1 year ago
I'm so happy this footage exists! How wonderful. Thank you for posting!
BatALash 1 year ago 3
none of them are alive they are all dead
healthyey 1 year ago
Wow, Margaret Hamilton makes getting a second degree burn on your face with heavy makeup on seem like it was no big deal!
Trekkeee 1 year ago 2
Margaret Hamilton was a unique American institution: nobody remotely like this original lady who was a sweet woman in real life - who loved children - but scared millions of them ironically: and we loved her for it!!
scotnick59 1 year ago 6
@scotnick59 Exactly ! She scared the "shite" out of me when I was a kid....and still does.......and I'm 56 years of age!
Kdogdude26 1 year ago 4
I sing about The Wizard of Oz in The Celebrity Song.
superdavid002 1 year ago
i luv the movie it is my fave x
RuthK1996 1 year ago
are the actors still alive? I know most of them died, but which ones are still alive?
TheIzobo1 1 year ago 9
@TheIzobo1 Hello, Well all the main cast have died (Garland, Bolger, Lahr, Haley, Burke, Hamilton, Morgan) But I am pretty sure a few Munchkins are still alive. :-)
CliffmountPictures 1 year ago 14
@CliffmountPictures oh ok. do u know how old the munchkins could be?
TheIzobo1 1 year ago
@CliffmountPictures i think the last munchkin actor died some months ago.
YourOasis97 1 year ago
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@YourOasis97 said <i think the last munchkin actor died some months ago.>
No, he wasn't the last (Meinhardt Raabe, the munchkin coroner, died a couple of months ago). But Jerry Maren from the Lollipop Guild is still living & even still acting. He's probably about 90 now. Margaret Pellegrini & a couple of others are also living.
amberlights1 1 year ago
@CliffmountPictures i think the last one just passed...
SnappyTune22 1 year ago
@CliffmountPictures - And it's funny how Buddy Ebsen, who wound up being replaced and never appeared in the movie, far outlived any of his Oz castmates, having passed away in 03!
WhatsAYak 1 year ago
@CliffmountPictures It's so sad to think they are all gone. :(
4hischurch 1 year ago 32
@4hischurch Very True, but their Legend will live forever with this movie :-)
CliffmountPictures 1 year ago 48
@CliffmountPictures Absolutely. Seventy years on, and it has NOT been surpassed, IMO.
4hischurch 1 year ago
@CliffmountPictures Seventy years on and this is STILL the best movie, IMO.
4hischurch 1 year ago
@CliffmountPictures Seventy years on and this is STILL the best movie, IMO.
4hischurch 1 year ago
@4hischurch - Margaret Hamilton and Ray Bolger lived the longest of all of them, Hamilton died in 1985 and Bolger in 1987. Jack Haley wasn't too far behind, he passed away in 1979. They may be gone but they are immortalized in this Classic, Classic film, as well as the others they did.
soeffingwhat 1 year ago 2
@soeffingwhat Absolutely!
4hischurch 1 year ago
@soeffingwhat
I remember Hamilton and Bolger dying, although I was very little at the time.
ma7799 1 year ago
@4hischurch awwwwwwwwwwh tht comment made me bus out and cry, its something i nevr even thoght of
moroney1 1 year ago
@4hischurch I believe there are still a few survivors! Like Jerry Maren.
SirOhsis 11 months ago
@4hischurch and the woman who played the witch was reportedly the nicest person!
ra86226 11 months ago 6
@ra86226 Yes! And, apparently, a great actress!
4hischurch 11 months ago
@CliffmountPictures last munchkin died last year
nickmandl 1 year ago
@TheIzobo1 the only was that's alive is the munchkin who said. "she's really most sincerelly dead
wiisalute 1 year ago
@TheIzobo1 - Meinhardt Raabe (9-2-1915 - 4-9-2010), played the Munchkin coroner that recently died of a heart attack in Florida at age 94. He was the last surviving cast member with any dialogue in the film. 4:56 pm April 25 2010
teedeeiss 1 year ago
@TheIzobo1 Everyone that was in the Wizard of Oz is now dead. The last munchkin died a few years ago.
sk8er2859 1 year ago
@sk8er2859 There are still a few living Munchkins, but Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Coroner, was the last surviving Munchkin with significant dialogue. He died three months ago.
BroadwayRULZ 1 year ago
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sk8er2859 1 year ago
@BroadwayRULZ Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up.
sk8er2859 1 year ago
there are still 5 of the munchkins left but there all in there late 90's
xXRiseAgainstMexX1 1 year ago
@TheIzobo1 there isnt any meinhardt was the last to die altho u could google it
lisa4615 1 year ago
@lisa4615 - Not quite...Jerry Maren (of the Lollipop Guild) is still w/us, as are Karl Slover, Betty Ann (Bruno) Cain, Margaret Pellegrini (who played a Sleepyhead), and a few others.
WhatsAYak 1 year ago
@TheIzobo1 7 munchkins are alive,you can find their names in wikpedia
cahlindinhaloira 1 year ago
@TheIzobo1
At least two of the main actors lived into my era. The Wicked Witch died in 1985, and the Scarecrow died in 1987.
ma7799 1 year ago
I've always thought that Jack Haley looked really tired in this movie.
my god! the makeup was deadly!
wattever333 1 year ago 3
watching this makes you realise what professional actors are, not the prissy little sensitive and demanding primadonnas today.... most of whom don't have the talent these people had.
playgirlc 1 year ago 3
@playgirlc - AMEN to what you said. The weenies & WHINERS of today couldn't hold a candle to the great gifted actors of yesteryear, not only in TALENT but in STAMINA. 5:23 pm April 25 2010
teedeeiss 1 year ago
that is my favorite movie of all time!!! but i didn't know that a great video had a mad expeirence in the making! wow! poor gal..
ox0xJACKiEx0xo 1 year ago
i feel very honored now that i just finished playing the wicked witch in our high school's production of Wizard of Oz :3
FOBkicksbuttt 1 year ago 2
Margaret is so awesome! I'm glad she was alright.
mle011 1 year ago 5
In those final frames at the end she looked young vibrant and pretty~ I mean really, don't you think? What a time she was having then...
gregamo 1 year ago
@gregamo yes i agree with you, she looked like she just so happy to be where she was even while she had 2nd degree burns on her face nd its sad tht they had to work those incredibly long hrs
KhidFresh 1 year ago
^^ Wow..I just recalled a similar thing happened to Idina Menzel when she was playing Elphaba.
<3 I love hearing about The Wizard of Oz.
NinjaMuffinMaster 1 year ago
and what would that be?? I'm mildly curious now! :)
Katluver56 1 year ago
In one of the performances the elevator didn't come up in time and she got hurt.
NinjaMuffinMaster 1 year ago
@NinjaMuffinMaster
Yup. Shoshana Bean (her replacement on Bway) got her boot heel caught in the trap door that goes up for No Good Deed. Trapdoors and green witches, i tell ya...
BlueJeanBaby012 1 year ago 2
@BlueJeanBaby012 And Idina got dropped when she stepped on her trap door and was rushed to the hospital with a fractured/broken(?) rib.
floritka85 11 months ago
Hail to Margo!
harliette 1 year ago
Mr.Jack Young was one of the makeup artist working on "The WizardOf Oz"and Thank God.He saved Poor Maggie or she was have been seriously disfigured for life.
143AC 1 year ago
The voice of these casting things is the main old lady in Bed knobs and Broomsticks! :D
OreeoShowproductions 1 year ago
Kudos to Angela Lansbury for narrating this video so superbly and articulately. She starred opposite Burt Lahr on Broadway in her Broadway debut in 1957. Today, in 2010, she is still appearing on Broadway 8 nights a week in "A Little Night Music" in a part for which she has won renowned and unanimous critical and popular appraise. Go and see her if you can! She was one of the very few who tried to help Judy back in her dark days, it must be said.
Rudy61287 2 years ago 5
Correction. That's Bert Lahr, not Burt Lahr.
Rudy61287 2 years ago
That's also criticial and popular praise, not appraise.
Rudy61287 2 years ago
How did you find out she tried to help her? I'm not doubting, I'm just curious...very sad:(
Garlandfan94 1 year ago
I am almost certain I read it in Angela's biography. It's called "Balancing Act" and it's written by Martin Gottfried. She gave Judy her support when she expressed interest - actually, more than interest, desperation - in being Angela's replacement in "Mame." The producers visited Judy's house and Jerry Herman even helped her audition for the show, but unfortunately it became clear she was, for many reasons, unable to do it.
Rudy61287 1 year ago
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Garlandfan94 1 year ago
You're very welcome. I recommend the biography very much if you even have mild interest in Angela or the eras that her career encompassed.
If you're interested in another Judy reference Elaine Stritch also has a wonderful - and comical - recollection of a fun night partying it up with Judy in the DVD of her phenomenal one-woman show "Elaine Stritch: At Liberty." I could recount it but it will have more panache if you experience it firsthand.
Rudy61287 1 year ago
By the way I also have to compliment you for having great taste at age 15. It's a rarity to have that.
Rudy61287 1 year ago
Thank you:) I get that a lot with family, etc..I'm very happy I have a taste for Judy and Oz, it's really a shame they've all passed on too. It's devastating.
Garlandfan94 1 year ago
this film i my fav film of all times i never get bourd watching it when i was growing up and now my 9 year loves this film and watchs it at least 2 times a week when shes at my mum and dads and when ever i go and pick her up after i finsh work from my mum and dad i cant leave the house till its finsh my dad said shes justed like me when i was a kid allways watching wizard of oz ,chitty chitty bang bang and the sound of music my litty girl even maged to get her dad in to the wizzard of oz to
gummie1066 2 years ago
Wow ... that was really impossible to foreseen.
Today this will never happened, specially because they digitalized almost anything.
I heard they use a ink in the costume for the tin man that was very dangerous to his health. :-( how unfortunately.
lialammas 2 years ago
Actually the origially Tin Man, Buddy Ebsen almost died. They used a lead power, which almost killed him
elvis3700 2 years ago
Wow, knowing what the cast had to endure during filming just makes me appreciate this movie even more. Talk about dedication to the craft.
ArielBlaise 2 years ago 2
This movi