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In 1914, Baum adapted the book to film through his Oz Film Manufacturing Company. The book was followed by Tik-Tok of Oz (1914). In the previous Oz book, The Emerald City of Oz, magic was used to isolate Oz from all contact with the outside world. Baum did this to end the Oz series, but was forced to restart the series with this book due to ...
The Wizard of Oz is a 1925 American silent fantasy-adventure comedy film directed by Larry Semon, who has the lead role of a Kansas farmhand disguised as the Scarecrow.. This production, which is the only completed 1920s adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, stars Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman, and Curtis McHenry briefly disguised as a ...
The book version of the movie Return to Oz (1985), which is based on the second and third books, The Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz. Was: Geoff Ryman: 1992: Was employs the literary conceit that a Kansas girl named Dorothy existed and that, as a school teacher, L. Frank Baum made up the story of the first Oz book to amuse her. The novel takes place ...
Some of the major characters from Baum's first book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) from left to right; Tin Woodman, Toto, Dorothy Gale, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow. This is a list of characters in the original Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum. The majority of characters listed here unless noted otherwise have appeared in multiple ...
In addition to The Wizard of Oz, he’s best remembered for playing the devious Barnaby in the original Babes in Toyland (1961) film. He married Gwendolyn Rickard in 1929, and the couple remained ...
Baum's book inspired the 1939 classic starring Judy Garland, “The Wizard of Oz.” “Wicked” the movie, which stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, dips into the past and examines how ...
We all remember 'The Wizard of Oz' from the ruby slippers to the emerald city -- not to mention how cute Toto was. So in honor of the 77th anniversary of the classic film, take a look at the life ...
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) is a silent film made by L. Frank Baum's The Oz Film Manufacturing Company. It was based on the 1913 book The Patchwork Girl of Oz. [1] The film was written and produced by L. Frank Baum and directed by J. Farrell MacDonald. It makes almost no use of the dialogue from the book in the intertitles. While there are ...