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 ).

The main characteristics that are common between all Ibanez RG guitars ( RG stands for Roadstar Guitar ) is that they feature 24 frets and use thin necks, known as " Wizard ", which allows for faster playing.

It has models with either 22 or 24 frets that are housed in slightly larger necks, known as the Wizard III, compared to the thinner Wizard necks that the RG has.

While " The Wizard of Oz " nickname was an allusion to the 1939 motion picture of the same name, Smith also came to be known as simply " The Wizard " during his playing career, as Smith's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque would later attest.

During this time Scott became known by the nickname " The Wizard of the North ".

Edison became known as " The Wizard of Menlo Park ," New Jersey.

* In Italy, The Wizard of Id is known as Mago Wiz ( Wiz The Sorcerer ) and has been published with great success in the comics magazines Il Mago and Linus, and in the science fiction magazine Urania, plus several hardcover editions also by Mondadori.

Wizard and the Princess, also known as Adventure in Serenia, is a 1980 video game by On-Line Systems for the Apple II and Apple II Plus.

* Ozzie Smith, the acrobatic St. Louis Cardinals shortstop of the 1980s known as the " Wizard of Oz "

The Wizard of Oz parallels continue inside, where the Wizard is revealed to be Marten Broadcloak, also known as Randall Flagg, who flees when Roland attempts to kill him with Jake's Ruger and narrowly misses ( Flagg has bewitched Roland's own guns, saying, " Only misfires against me, Roland, old fellow ").

Some artists well known for breakbeat include NAPT, DJ Icey, DJ Marmik, Stanton Warriors, Beat Assassins, Pendulum, Krafty Kuts, The Freestylers, DJ Loopy & Dj G3NjUiCe, K-Swing, Soul Of Man, Deekline And Wizard, The Breakfastaz, Ctrl Z, DJ Sharaz, Freq Nasty, Annie Nightingale, Plump DJ's and avant-garde performance troupe Lucent Dossier Experience.

He was also one of the Senate's strongest supporters of the Vietnam War and was known as " The Wizard of Ooze " for his oratorical style.

Besides the UU, Wizard magic is known to be taught at Bugarup University in Fourecks ( Archchancellor, Bill Rincewind ) and Krull University in the secretive nation of Krull, as well as the recently-established Braseneck College in Pseudopolis.

He is best known for playing five separate characters, including the title character, in The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

He was widely known to have had a drinking problem, according to several who worked with him, including actress Margaret Hamilton ( the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, 1939 ) and " Oz " historian Aljean Harmetz.

The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, based on the novel, gave it the name by which it is better known, the Yellow Brick Road ( it is never referenced by that title in the original novel ).

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o's literary works include Caitani Mutharabaini ( 1981 ), Matigari ( 1986 ) and Murogi wa Kagogo ( Wizard of the Crow ( 2006 )) which is the largest known Kikuyu language novel having been translated into more than thirty languages

Raymond Wallace " Ray " Bolger ( January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987 ) was an American entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hunk in The Wizard of Oz.

* Terry ( 1933-1945 ), dog actress, best known for playing Toto in the Wizard of Oz

After him the valley became known as Nan Curunír, or " Valley of the Wizard ".

Finding an individual to challenge, the hero was the one who would become the one known as the Wanderer, who went on to save the princess and defeated the Wizard.

It has to be said, though, that he's only known as " The Hobgoblin " in the English translation — in the Swedish edition of the book, The Hobgoblin is simply referred to as " Trollkarlen " (" The Wizard ") and his species is not mentioned.