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Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.
* 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
His voice over acting talents can be heard on animated shows like Ren and Stimpy, Scooby Doo, Batman: The Animated Series, Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs, Little Wizard Adventures, The Oz Kids and Disney's Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
Another example is the place of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) in American and British gay culture, although a widely viewed and historically important film in greater American culture.
" Yip " Harburg ( performed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), " White Christmas " written by Irving Berlin ( best-known performance by Bing Crosby ), " This Land Is Your Land " written and performed by Woody Guthrie, " Respect " written by Otis Redding ( best-known performance by Aretha Franklin ), and " American Pie ".
During this period, beginning in 1964, he acted as television host to the annual CBS telecasts of MGM's The Wizard of Oz.
1939, a major year for American cinema, brought such films as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with The Wind.
Frank L. Baum published “ Mother Goose in Prose ” in 1897, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, and American Fairy Tales in 1901.
The Wizard of Oz, in particular, is considered to be an allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.
It failed to win any Oscars partly because of the number of other major pictures that were nominated that year, including The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.
He filmed the cave scene for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ) and, following the firing of its original director Richard Thorpe, Cukor spent a week on the set of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).
* Hickory, portrayed by Jack Haley, the farm worker who became the Tin Woodsman in Dorothy's dream in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz
Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film ) | The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 )
Lyman Frank Baum ( May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919 ) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Baum's description of Kansas in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is based on his experiences in drought-ridden South Dakota.
In 1900, Baum and Denslow ( with whom he shared the copyright ) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to much critical acclaim and financial success.
Baum and Tietjens had worked on a musical of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1901 and based closely upon the book, but it was rejected.
This stage version, the first to use the shortened title " The Wizard of Oz ", opened in Chicago in 1902, then ran on Broadway for 293 stage nights from January to October 1903.
The Wicked Witch of the West was eliminated entirely in the script, and the plot became about how the four friends, being allied with the usurping Wizard, were hunted as traitors to Pastoria II, the rightful King of Oz.
Beginning with the success of the stage version, most subsequent versions of the story, including newer editions of the novel, have been titled " The Wizard of Oz ", rather than using the full, original title.
He did not get back to a stable financial situation for several years, after he sold the royalty rights to many of his earlier works, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Frank Baum's grave in one of the films, whose younger brother Harold Rosson photographed The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).
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Former Wizard / Sporting Kansas City player Sasha Victorine provided color commentary in the beginning of 2011 but stepped down to spend more time with family.
After the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake the Wizard has planned to retire and leave Christchurch for good saying the town he loved had gone and that it was the end of an era.
* The 2011 revival of The Wizard of Oz contains a musical number entitled " Bacchanalia ", which is a dance number in act two at The Witch's Castle.
* 2011: The Wizard of Oz opened at the theatre on February 7, 2011 and played through September 2012.
In 2011 it was announced at the New York Toy fair that a second Elvis Mr. Potato Head ( based on his 1968 TV special ) would be released, as well as sets for The Wizard of Oz ( Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Lion ), the Three Stooges, and Star Trek ( Kirk and Kor ).
* The Wizard of Oz ( 2011 musical ): Danielle Hope
* In the 2011 direct-to-DVD animated film Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz, the Wizard is voiced by Joe Alaskey.
Warrenpoint Pantomime Club, established in 1950, has staged 55 highly popular pantomimes in the town, the latest being “ The Wizard of Oz ” in 2011.
* In the 2011 direct-to-DVD animated film Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz, the Tin Man was voiced by Rob Paulsen.
* The Wizard of Oz-London Palladium, London ( 2011 )
* Cash Wizard ( 2011 )
Skeletor appears in the 2011 fan film " The Wizard of Stone Mountain ", portrayed by actor Andrew Brett.
The most recent direct-to-video film, Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz, was released on August 23, 2011 and was the first made-for-video Tom and Jerry movie made for Blu-ray.
* Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz ( Warner Home Video, 2011 )
The 2011 event, sponsored by Wizard Jeans, was held on 8 June with winners Carol Vorderman and Anton du Beke receiving the awards.
On January 24, 2011, it was announced that Wizard magazine would cease publication after 20 years, and would be changed to an all digital magazine called Wizard World launching in February 2011.
Wizard or Wizard: The Magazine of Comics, Entertainment and Pop Culture ( previously titled Wizard: The Guide to Comics and Wizard: The Comics Magazine ) was a magazine about comic books, published monthly in the United States by Wizard Entertainment from July 1991 to January 2011.
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* ' Over the Rainbow ' contestant Jenny Douglas performed her version of ' Send in the Clowns ' during the 2010 talent contest to find a leading lady for the Wizard of Oz, in musical theatre week.
* August 15 – MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
** MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, is released in theaters everywhere.
* The Wizard of Oz ( 1902 stage play ), a musical by L. Frank Baum, Paul Tietjens and others
* The Wizard of Oz ( 1942 musical )
* The Wizard of Oz ( 1987 musical )
Kiedis recalled the event, saying " It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he had said was too ludicrous to take seriously ", as his proposition was too different from the band's musical style.
* January 5-The Wiz, a new musical version of the classic Wizard of Oz story, opens at Broadway's Majestic Theater in New York City.
* May 7 — Lyricist Edgar Yipsel Harburg and composer, Harold Arlen, begin work on the musical score for The Wizard of Oz.
While in London, Balk was cast by Walt Disney Productions to star as Dorothy Gale in Return to Oz, the loose sequel to MGM's 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz.
In 1995 he performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, a musical performance of the popular story at the Lincoln Center in New York to benefit the Children's Defense Fund.
* 2001 – " A View to a Kill "/" The Never Ending Story "/" Pinball Wizard "/" Can You Feel the Love Tonight " < small >< nowiki > tracks performed by Limahl from the Compilation album | compilation entitled What a Feeling II – The Rock ' n ' Pop Musicals in Concert from the musical of the same name </ small >
Vereen appeared in the Broadway musical Wicked as the Wizard of Oz in 2005.
She has had even more musical roles in Annie Get Your Gun, Grease, The Wizard of Oz, Cats and Nils Karlsson Pyssling.
In 1995 Winger performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a musical performance of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund.
For the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, Dorothy ( originated in The Wiz by Stephanie Mills ) is reimagined as a young African-American girl, though most of her other characteristics, as well as the general plot of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, remain intact.
* The Wizard of Oz ( 1902 Broadway musical ): Anna Laughlin
* In the 1902 musical extravaganza, The Wizard is the usurper of the throne of King Pastoria II, who is returned to Oz by the same cyclone that brought Dorothy Gale.
* In author Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ( a 1995 revisionist novel based on the inhabitants of Oz ) and in the 2003 Broadway musical Wicked ( based on Maguire's novel ), the Wizard is a tyrannical ruler who uses deceit and trickery to hide his own shortcomings.
It also revealed, in both the book and musical, that the Wizard is in fact Elphaba's biological father.
" The Wizard is portrayed in a better light in the musical, Wicked.
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