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 ).

* Florence Ryerson ( 1892-1965 ), screenwriter and playwright ; co-author of script for The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film )

* April 5 — Noel Langley completes the first script for The Wizard of Oz.

The script was written by playwright Noel Langley, one of the screenwriters of The Wizard of Oz.

However, his finished script for The Wizard of Oz was somewhat revised by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, revisions that Langley himself strongly objected to, but which appear in the finished film.

The second guest was Don Herbert, TV's " Mr. Wizard ", and the show ended with a young comic named Steve Fessler reciting aloud the script of an obscure Bela Lugosi movie Bowery at Midnight.

Dorothy's last name of Gale comes from Baum's script for the 1902 Broadway stage version of The Wizard of Oz.

After Denslow quarreled with Baum over royalty shares from the 1902 stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, for which Baum wrote the script and Denslow designed the sets and costumes, Baum determined not to work with him again.

* Edgar Allan Woolf ( 1881-1943 ), American playwright and co-author of the script for The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film )

It includes Midnight Nation # 1-12, the Wizard # 1 / 2 issue, a cover gallery, and extras such as a script, layout page, and super-gloss poster ( ISBN 978-1607060406 ).

When it is demonstrated that Terr can read Draag script, the leader ( known only as " Mighty One ") is willing to accept Terr into the tribe, but the Wizard is not, and demands a trial by combat – to the death.

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.

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.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the only element of romance lay in the backstory of the Tin Woodman and his love Nimmie Amee, which explains his condition and does not otherwise affect the tale, and that of Gayelette and the enchantment of the Winged Monkeys ; the only other stories with such elements were The Scarecrow of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz, both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them.

Gone with the Wind and Dark Victory both earned him Academy Award nominations, however, he lost to the score of The Wizard of Oz by Herbert Stothart.

Nicknamed " The Wizard " for his defensive brilliance, Smith set major league records for career assists ( 8, 375 ) and double plays ( 1, 590 ) by a shortstop ( the latter since broken by Omar Vizquel ), as well as the National League ( NL ) record with 2, 511 career games at the position ; Smith won the NL Gold Glove Award for play at shortstop for 13 consecutive seasons ( 1980 – 1992 ).

During his speech, he compared his baseball experiences with the characters from the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, after which his son Dustin presented his Hall of Fame plaque.

Children's author and playwright L. Frank Baum referred to a seat in this passage of his novel Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ; “ At once a little girl rose from her seat and walked to the door of the car, carrying a wicker suit-case in one hand and a round bird-cage covered up with newspapers in the other, while a parasol was tucked under her arm .”

Jittlov released his footage the following year to 16mm film collectors as a short film titled The Wizard of Speed and Time, along with four of his other short multi-technique animated films, most of which eventually evolved into his own feature-length film of the same title.

Dubbed " The Wizard of Menlo Park " ( now Edison, New Jersey ) by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

( The title is a play on The Wizard of Oz, combined with the Freudian psychological term Id, which represents the instinctive and primal part of the human psyche.

The Wizard of Id deals with the goings-on of the rundown and oppressed mythical kingdom of Id.

For instance, in 1967 there was a six-week story with the Wizard taking over the throne.

For example, the old style of the King's head was more rectangular, had a crown with identifiable card suits on it ( club, diamond, heart ), his mustache and beard always hid his mouth, and his beard frequently extended to a curved point when the King was shown in profile ( see The Wondrous Wizard of Id, 1970, Fawcett Publications ).

* 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.

A compact set of fanatsy role-playing rules derived from Melee, Wizard and ITL, with simplified combat and magic.

The Vice Chancellor offered to do all he could and in 1969 Channell, who wanted to stay on campus and continue his social experiments, was able to persuade the VC to appoint him official University Wizard with a small honorarium paid jointly by the University Administration and the Student Union.

The Wizard, his partner and two boarders were lucky to escape with their lives, and the wizard's extensive book and video collections were destroyed.

The documentary includes interviews with The Wizard, Mike Moore and many others who narrate a portrait of a man held by many New Zealanders to be a national Icon.

The Wizard explores the Wizards views that woman cause wars through their shopping habits and that governments with Monarchies are more stable, and explores the life of the Wizard of New Zealand.