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In the 1985 movie Return to Oz, the character of Mombi (portrayed by Jean Marsh) was combined with head-exchanging Princess Langwidere from the third book in the series, Ozma of Oz and she is renamed Princess Mombi. Here, she is portrayed as a dark-haired, deranged and evil middle-aged sorceress.
Princess Ozma - the girl from the sanitarium and rightful ruler of Oz, who was imprisoned in a mirror by Mombi - is then freed and ascends the throne. Dorothy gives Ozma the ruby slippers, which she uses to send Dorothy home, promising she can return in the future if she wishes.
Cap'n Bill and Trot also play significant roles in the later Oz books The Lost Princess of Oz (1917), The Magic of Oz (1919) and Jack Snow's The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946). Baum borrowed from one of his own earlier characters, Naboth Perkins in Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea (1906), to create Cap'n Bill. [4]
Elements from Ozma of Oz and the previous novel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, were incorporated into the 1985 film Return to Oz, featuring Fairuza Balk as Dorothy. Although most of the plot was taken from Ozma , the action was chiefly relocated to the derelict Emerald City , ruled by Princess Mombi (Princess Langwidere in all but name, as well as ...
In Oz, Princess Ozma is shown trapped in the mirror by Princess Mombi as her reflection leads Dorothy to the Powder of Life. Following the death of the Nome King and the imprisonment of Mombi, Dorothy frees Princess Ozma who forgives Mombi and uses the ruby slippers to send Dorothy back to Kansas.
Eighty-five years on, the tear-jerking "Wizard of Oz" still looks better than almost every film that's come since, with its vibrant colors, sweeping musical numbers, and eye-popping practical sets ...
Eighty-five years ago, The Wizard of Oz arrived in cinemas and forever changed the art form. Based on L. Frank Baum's novel, the beloved film follows Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and her cast of ...
A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz” sold at auction Saturday for $28 million. In an email sent to CBS News, Robert Wilonsky, vice president of ...