Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Munchkin Country is the fictional eastern region of the Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). It is popularly known as Munchkinland, as it was first called in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Munchkin Country is in the East, noted by being ruled by the Wicked Witch of the East.
The story reverted to the Wizard's having built the city in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908), with the four witches having usurped the king's power before the Wizard's arrival. [ 8 ] The only allusions to the original conception of Emerald City among the Oz sequels appeared in The Road to Oz (1909), where the Little Guardian of the Gates ...
The Silver Shoes are the magical shoes that appear in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as heroine Dorothy Gale's transport home. They are originally owned by the Wicked Witch of the East but passed to Dorothy when her house lands on the Witch.
Dorothy is delighted by the local Munchkins of Munchkinland but enveloped in a tragedy: Her house has killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and her sister the Wicked Witch of the West vows vengeance.
If you've ever seen the original Wizard of Oz movie (and even if you haven't), you're likely familiar with Dorothy's ruby slippers.. They're kind of iconic. The sparkling red sequin shoes are the ...
The "Wizard of Oz" star was a mom to Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft and Joey Luft. ... Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz." ... (of the Luft family's house) on Rockingham Avenue was ...
The house comes down in an unknown land, and Dorothy is greeted by a good witch named Glinda, who floats down in a bubble and explains that Dorothy has landed in Munchkinland in the Land of Oz, and that the Munchkins are celebrating because the house landed on the Wicked Witch of the East, killing her.
When Dorothy and her friends meet the Wizard again, Toto tips over a screen in a corner of the throne room that reveals "the Wizard", who sadly explains he is a humbug—an ordinary old man who, by a hot air balloon, came to Oz long ago from Omaha. He provides the Scarecrow with a head full of bran, pins, and needles ("a lot of bran-new brains ...