Seeing Dorothy's silver shoes, they dare not harm her.

Her shoes are then confiscated by the Good Witch of the North for Dorothy's use.

Glinda, who was nearby, sends Dorothy off with Nessa's shoes for fear of their power igniting a civil war in Munchkinland, as well as to ensure Dorothy's safety.

She meets her demise when Dorothy's house lands on top of her, leaving only her enchanted shoes intact.

No mention is made of what happened to Dorothy's real parents, other than a passing reference to her mother being dead.

This Dorothy's adventures in Oz force her to mature, as is the case for most versions of the Wizard of Oz story, although in this case, Dorothy is made to overcome a case of arrested development.

Glinda clearly made the Fountain at a point in Oz's history when the Land was unified under one of the members of the Royal Family of Oz, albeit a tyrannical king in this isolated incident, and so she was able to intervene in a way that she couldn't when the country was divided between the Wizard and the Wicked Witches of the East and West et al., prior to Dorothy's arrival.

As mentioned above, he is not an expert on Oz, but this statement made by Guph once again foreshadows a much later cinematic rendition of Glinda, in the film version of the Broadway musical The Wiz in which Glinda ( played by Lena Horne ) is responsible for the twister that brings Dorothy's house to Oz and sets all subsequent events into motion.

Mark and Dorothy's son, Charles Van Doren, made front page news both by winning $ 129, 000 on a television game show in 1957, then admitting in 1959 that the program was rigged.

Her mother made those bows and would spend two hours every night brushing and putting Dorothy's hair up in curlers.

She made an appearance in Matlock, another popular detective series and in The Golden Girls as Trudy McMann, Dorothy's friend from high school.

His uniqueness has made the Leopard an outcast and a pariah in the jungle ; but he fits right in with the unusual beings who are Dorothy's companions, is welcomed among them, and is grateful for their acceptance.

Dorothy's desire to return home is not as desperate as in the first book, and it is her uncle's need for her rather than hers for him that makes her return.

Baum never states Dorothy's age, but he does state in The Lost Princess of Oz that she is a year younger than Betsy Bobbin and a year older than Trot, whose age was specified as 10 in Ruth Plumly Thompson's The Giant Horse of Oz, a book full of controversial changes.

Oz is, in the first book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, distinguished from Dorothy's native Kansas by not being civilized ; this explains why Kansas does not have witches and wizards, while Oz does.

In the book he entertains each member of Dorothy's party on a different day, and takes a different form for each.

Like the book, Dorothy's house fell on the Wicked Witch of the East.

She is Dorothy's animal companion for this adventure, the role that Toto the dog serves in the first book.

The stages of Dorothy's plight-the coming to herself in the London street, the sense of being cut off from friends and the familiar, the destitution and the cold-enact the nightmare in which one may be dropped out of respectable life, no matter how debt-laden and forlorn, into the unthinkable pit of the beggar's hunger and the hopelessly declassed.

Glinda the Good Witch of the North ( Billie Burke ) magically puts the dead woman's ruby slippers on Dorothy's feet to protect her from the Witch's vengeful sister, the Wicked Witch of the West ( Margaret Hamilton ).

Aubrey downsized the struggling MGM and sold off massive amounts of historical memorabilia, including Dorothy's ruby slippers ( from The Wizard of Oz ), the majority of the studio's backlots in Culver City and overseas operations such as the British MGM studio at Borehamwood.

The series incorporated visual elements from the 1939 classic film, including the Scarecrow's diploma and Dorothy's ruby slippers.

Sonny poked a little fun at himself when he guest-starred on The Golden Girls, in the episode " Mrs. George Devereaux ", aired November 17, 1990, as himself vying with Lyle Waggoner for Dorothy's ( Beatrice Arthur ) affection in a dream, where Blanche ( Rue McClanahan ) dreams her husband is still alive.

He gets drunk and is involved in an accident that leaves Dorothy's face disfigured.

" Dorothy's reply to Jerry is, " You had me at hello ".

Though Dorothy's surname is not mentioned in dialogue, in early episodes of the series Dorothy's namebadge shows it to be ' Martin '.

mother Dorothy's private journals, in which she writes at one point: " Diane ... is a mystery ... At times, she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me.

Dorothy, Eureka, who is Dorothy's cat, and Zeb are riding a buggy being pulled by a cab-horse named Jim when an earthquake starts and opens a crevice beneath them that sends them hurtling into the bowels of the earth.

The fictional Dorothy's last name is never mentioned in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or The Marvelous Land of Oz, the first two Oz books.

It is never clarified in the books whether Aunt Em or Uncle Henry is Dorothy's blood relative.

Uncle Henry makes reference to Dorothy's mother in The Emerald City of Oz, possibly an indication that Henry is Dorothy's blood relative.

( It is also possible that " Aunt " and " Uncle " are affectionate terms of a foster family and that Dorothy is not related to either of them, although Zeb in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz claims to be Dorothy's second cousin, related through Aunt Em.

Dorothy's surname, Gale, is first mentioned in Ozma of Oz.

Popular in crossword puzzles is Dorothy's cow, Imogene, from the 1902 stage version, and implicitly, though unnamed, in the 1910 film.

It is not actually confirmed that Oz is merely Dorothy's dream ; it is only implied, since she awakens in bed at the end, with Aunt Em telling her she had a dream, although Dorothy insists the experience was real.

The land of Oz is depicted as real in the books, unlike the 1939 movie adaptation, which presented it as a dream of Dorothy's.

Two good witches would have been superfluous in a movie of that type at best, and would not have contributed to the drama and to Dorothy's personal journey and character growth in any meaningful way, which is what the filmmakers were interested in portraying.

In the movie, the Lion walks on his hind legs instead of all four, except when he is first seen bounding out of the forest to attack Dorothy's friends.

She is a Winfield, Kansas farm girl, a reference to Dorothy Gale as played by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic movie The Wizard of Oz ( occasionally wearing Dorothy's ubiquitous pigtails and a gingham dress ).

They then fall into some spooky woods where they meet Pumpkinhead ( voiced by Paul Lynde ), the unwilling servant of Mombi, the cousin of both the deceased Wicked Witch of the East ( who was killed when a tornado dropped Dorothy's house on her in the first movie ) and the Wicked Witch of the West ( who melted after Dorothy doused her with water in the first movie ).

* In the movie, Dorothy and The Witches of Oz, Dorothy's parent's can see her in Oz through a magical snow globe.