Weird Facts About Filming The Wizard of Oz

Weird Facts About Filming The Wizard of Oz #shorts
Amazing and interesting facts about filming the classic film The Wizard of Oz.
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[@greensgrains4053]

Dude how’d the dog make more than real life humans 😂

[@celiaallen6798]

Maybe because the dog was cute and you could carry it around in your hands and do tricks the munchkins maybe not so much.shirley temple would have also being a perfect Dorothy,her vocals was beautiful.

[@justbplz]

Why do you think they started the lollypop guild? To get better pay ;p

[@celiaallen6798]

@@justbplz yeah,but everyone knows white people will go above and beyond for animals,especially Dogs.mans best friend and trusty companion no matter the size or breed.

[@Waywardtrickdogs]

The dog might have had more previous acting rolls .. I know Terry (later changed to Toto) had many acting rolls .. being trick trained might have helped her get paid more

[@potatopirate5557]

Because little people were not considered as full human beings.

[@0ne0nlyLarry]

So Toto was gonna be played by a Man while the Lion was gonna be a real Lion...What a Twist

[@MaskedMan66]

Toto was never going to be played by a man. And they only considered using Jackie for three seconds or so.

[@johnburke6332]

It's a twister!

[@MaskedMan66]

@@johnburke6332 kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4msfYGkmLaqfpY

[@bell6dandy564]

Said in the Robot Chicken Shamalan voice lol

[@MaskedMan66]

@@bell6dandy564 ???

[@dazem8]

Someone in the production team suggested the slippers be red because they felt it would look better onscreen since MGM had just acquired technicolor.

[@MaskedMan66]

They'd been using Technicolor for a while, as had other studios.

[@daronjohnson9095]

The wizard of Oz has deep symbolism , black, silver, red and gold, look into it, mark passio

[@MaskedMan66]

They didn't acquire Technicolor; it was an independent tech rented (at a pretty penny) by all the studios. Natalie Kalmus was its boss, and she set the terms.

[@stolenalt]

We would of had 3 different Dorothy's if the lion was involved.

[@donarthiazi2443]

😂

[@flip1325]

🤣

[@MaskedMan66]

It's "would have," and what are you talking about?

[@stolenalt]

@@MaskedMan66 ._.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@stolenalt That's no answer. What's this notion of yours about "three Dorothys?"

[@Akira625]

The effects for the tornado is quite impressive. That, and the other special effects hold up nicely after 85 years.

[@MaskedMan66]

Very true! 🙂

[@amc042759]

Glad they didn't cut Over The Rainbow. One of my favorite songs.

[@MaskedMan66]

Mervyn LeRoy fought to keep it in the movie, just as he had fought to star Judy Garland in it.

[@Cleopatra7Philopator]

The MGM Management said, "It Slowed the Pace of the Movie, and adding Nothing to the Story." It IS the Story!

[@MaskedMan66]

@@Cleopatra7Philopator It's certainly the exposition. 🙂

[@neu_dae]

the tornado in that movie scared me so bad..

[@rachelr375]

Still scares me at 41!😮

[@lindseymorris3432]

Turns out it was only a stocking. It was terrifying the first time I ever watched it though.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@lindseymorris3432 No, it was a thirty-foot muslin tube.

[@randilevson9547]

My older brother ran out of the theatre when the Wicked Witch appeared on screen. She frightened the bejeebers out of him.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@randilevson9547 I'm guessing this was at a special event, rather than the original release back in 1939? ;-)

[@ZeoViolet]

Over the Rainbow was almost cut because some higher-ups felt it was demeaning for a girl to be shown singing in a barnyard. Glad they were overruled.

[@SeanTheDon-vj4kw]

But I guess it wasn't demeaning for that same girl to be forced to have her breasts taped and fed sleeping pills by said higher-ups....

[@babylonhasfallen1329]

The scarecrow was going to played by a real scarecrow but he kept forgetting his lines.

[@mimiplayz627]

😂

[@mikey2363]

I heard his acting was a little stiff

[@SeanTheDon-vj4kw]

Well of course he forgot his lines, because he had no brain! 😆

[@KyleKing-vx4by]

👍🌟🤣🤣🤣

[@SeanTheDon-vj4kw]

@@babylonhasfallen1329 If he only had a 🧠...

[@Ranechannel77]

That tornado effect was pure genius! It fooled me.

[@nancylowe2692]

That movie would come on twice a year on TV. Usually around holidays like Christmas & Easter. I remember watching it on a little black & white tv at our house. It was always on a Sunday evening & our parents would let us stay up later than our bedtime to watch it. I never knew that it turned to color when Dorothy's house lands in Oz. The first time I saw it at the movies, I was flabbergasted & so amazed it was in color! The monkeys & the witch were so scary! That movie lived in my head for weeks after seeing it....❤❤❤❤❤

[@jenniferlloyd9574]

Ha! Yes. Watched it on a B&W TV, too. My dad said "this is where it would be in color" after she lands in OZ. Then, the Wonderful World of Disney had Fantasia on one Sunday evening and, of course, we had to watch in B&W while they showed all those beautiful colors we couldn't see... That week my dad went out and bought a color television set.

[@annaarviso1520]

In the book Dorothy’s slippers are in fact silver, but directors and producers thought the colour red would stand out more in contrast to the yellow brick road.

[@MaskedMan66]

It wasn't up to the directors, and there was only one producer.

[@ginogatash4030]

Didn't they change it to pretty much showoff the technicolor technology?

[@MaskedMan66]

@@ginogatash4030 Indeed, by contrasting the yellow with the red. 🙂

[@ginogatash4030]

@@MaskedMan66 or even just in general, a silver pair of slippers is obviously not as colorful as a deep bright red so if you really wanna flex your technicolor tech red is the way to go.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@ginogatash4030 True. It is odd that they changed the name of the footwear type as well. In the book, they were shoes, not slippers. A pity in a way, because "silver slippers" would be nicely alliterative. Indeed, that's what they called them in the movie version of _The Wiz._

[@YouSimon1000]

The carriage used in the Emerald City was once used by Abraham Lincoln.

[@user-wb9ll2oh7k]

nice!

[@justinedie191]

@@user-wb9ll2oh7kI have a big cawk

[@Vortecs.]

For the trillionth time. As Oz historians Jay Scarfone and William Stillman made clear in their book "The Road to Oz," the snow was crushed gypsum. And seeing as how they have actually read files and requisition forms from the movie, they'd be the ones to know.

[@MaskedMan66]

Word!

[@angelaphillips1731]

Let the people know!

[@Vortecs.]

Yooo? @@MaskedMan66

[@MaskedMan66]

@@Vortecs. ?

[@Vortecs.]

Saw you replying on all WoO videos and really glad you actually replied :)@@MaskedMan66

[@Fuzzgeneral]

We all know how that would have ended if they got an actual lion 💀

[@MaskedMan66]

What do you mean?

[@Fuzzgeneral]

@@MaskedMan66 if not trained correctly the lion probably would have eaten everyone

[@MaskedMan66]

@@Fuzzgeneral That's why any time a dangerous animal is used in a movie, someone's standing by with a gun, either to (preferably) knock out or (if need be) kill the animal.

[@metaldiscipline3955]

Nonsense, the lion would have stood on his hind legs and declared himself "king of the forest" whilst breaking into song!

[@MaskedMan66]

@@metaldiscipline3955 When I was a wee one, I was firmly convinced that Bert Lahr was a real lion that they had trained to talk and sing. 🙂

[@anakelly76512]

They used the ruby slippers to show off because tv went to color.

[@kenya1067]

Oh yea my mom told me about that, because my great uncle and great aunt (my mom's uncle and aunt) had got the first color tv in the family so everyone went over and watched the movie and it was a super fun time. (Thanks for reminding me, I think it's such a pleasant story)

[@tlw1950]

That’s ridiculous. They chose ruby slippers to show off the Technicolor. It had nothing to do with television which was virtually non existent in 1939.

[@anakelly76512]

@@tlw1950 The slippers were silver. They used ruby because they wanted to show off color tv.

[@tlw1950]

That’s incorrect. Think about it. You’re saying a movie made in 1939 was anticipating being show on color TVs which wouldn’t exist for more than 20 years in the future??? They used ruby slippers because the Oz portions would be filmed in Technicolor and would look fabulous on the big screen in 1939 when the movie premiered. Educate yourself and learn some film history. You’re embarrassing yourself!

[@anakelly76512]

@@tlw1950 Insults? Really? Grow up. I know what I heard from them during the documentary. They wanted to show off the vivid color! They also wanted to make sure you could see the slippers on the yellow brick road. They were taking advantage of the Technicolor.

[@dianacooper-havlik4115]

One of my all-time favorite movies!

[@annabelles1622]

My all time favorite!!!! 😅

[@cheesyboygouda]

Judy was r*p*d on set.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@cheesyboygouda No, she was not.

[@meatduck-ki3do]

Yes she was

[@MaskedMan66]

@@meatduck-ki3do Prove it.

[@LaBellesGrace]

The snow was actually made of gypsum, according to someone who handpicked it out of Bert’s lion mane and Judy’s hair. This fact can be backed up by a book he wrote years ago that mentioned records of this.

[@andrewgates8158]

Gypsum is still not good to breathe in.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@andrewgates8158 Which is why they didn't!

[@MaskedMan66]

I've seen this claim before; what was this person's name?

[@cesco1990]

Gone With the Wind, also a very good movie.

[@MaskedMan66]

Also directed by Victor Fleming; in fact, when he was called away from _Wizard_ to work on _Wind,_ Judy Garland was very angry; she had a crush on him.

[@loringbush1455]

And there will never be another like it!

[@karenwilloughby3952]

Absolutely not. The best film in my opinion!!!!

[@AndI0td763]

@@karenwilloughby3952 Well at the very least if not the best it has to be the most famous right? For an American movie I can’t think of anything more well known than Wizard of Oz.

[@DaRealTaylorPlayz]

Hi there! With all due respect, the poppy scene fact you mentioned was wrong. It's actually Gypsum Salt, as confirmed by the book "The Wizardry of Oz" by Jay Scarfone and William Stillman.

[@MaskedMan66]

I think you mean "The Road to Oz," but yes, you are correct!

[@MaskedMan66]

My bad, they evidently did write a book by the title you gave; I've somehow managed to miss when it was published.

[@MUNCH13T1M3]

The way they did their research and made the tornado scene look so violent and realistic was brilliant. One of the best scenes in the whole movie in my opinion.

[@peterheimsoth159]

The MGM movie is the third big-screen version of the story; the first was in 1910 and the second in 1925. The 1925 one strayed wildly from the book, but on the plus side, it also had a terrifyingly effective storm scene.

[@OG-GenX065]

I took my grandson to see the 75th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz. After the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow, everyone in the movie theater stood up and gave a standing ovation.

[@belinda1443]

This movie terrified me as a child, now I know it was for a very good reason.

[@MaskedMan66]

And what reason would that be?

[@justaguy2365]

Ha!! Ever see return to oz?

[@MaskedMan66]

@@justaguy2365 Many times, and love it! What of it?

[@robshighlights6431]

The scene where the witch disappeared with fire gave her second degree burns

[@MaskedMan66]

The world has known that since it happened.

[@singer3188]

Slightly misleading saying Shirley Temple was supposed to be Dorothy. She was considered for the role but its not like she was hired and something happened to prevent her from playing the part. She just didn't get it.

[@Ohjustlovely]

Shirley Temple as Dorothy? "Over the Rainbow" sounding like "Animal Crackers." ☹️

[@MaskedMan66]

@@Ohjustlovely Shirley could do ballads as well.

[@MaskedMan66]

It was Judy's part from the beginning; part of the reason that Mervyn LeRoy wanted to make "The Wizard of Oz" as a movie was so he could display Judy's remarkable talents. Some MGM bigwig in New York demanded that Shirley be given a voice test, but that was just a formality.

[@astorkitty]

Precisely! I always have to check people's perception of this, they always get it wrong, and it drives me nuts. The part was literally tailored for Judy...and the higher ups saw box office appeal and money in Shirley. The creative integral ones who were actually evolving it always crafted it with Judy in mind.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@astorkitty Correct! Even though she had only been with MGM for three years, Mervyn LeRoy knew she had the chops to make his movie a classic. He had no idea of just how big and beloved it would become, but he lived to see it happen.

[@Hollytree118]

The tin man role original belonged to another actor ( Buddy Ebsen) but sadly the make up they used in the beginning for him as the tin man (a powder based makeup) made him very ill as it got in his lungs and even cause an allergic reaction 😢 so another actor had the part and they changed the make up

[@MaskedMan66]

It wasn't "powder based." The base was white greasepaint with aluminum powder dusted over it. Since it was as fine as normal setting powder, nobody foresaw any problems. But it got into the air and then into Ebsen's lungs, though the reaction was not an allergic one.

[@bratz_fan0840]

I heard about that in a video once It’s sad

[@MaskedMan66]

@@bratz_fan0840 That's showbiz. Most "actors" today would pitch a hissy fit, but in those days it was just the sort of stuff that went along with the job. Once Ebsen recovered, MGM cast him in two more movies which were released the same year as _Wizard._ FUN FACT: Some years after the movie, Ebsen played the Scarecrow in a stage version!

[@dillonworrall2739]

They never changed the makeup, the powder irritated his eyes and coated his lungs to the point where he was hospitalized. They used the same makeup for the second actor but it didn’t get into his lungs

[@Honeydoyou]

@@MaskedMan66you don’t put the lives of people in danger and call it showbiz. They neglected and abused the shit out of those people and it was wrong.

[@nurseshelly]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate what a beauty Judy Garland was... The golden age of Hollywood will never be again. They sure ruined many child actors. The ones that survived were very lucky. There is nothing for this industry to be proud of!

[@celiaallen6798]

Ms Garland was in her twentys when she did this movie if i am not mistaken.These women of back in the day are indeed beautiful and timeless compared to modern day actors lots of fillers/fake ass,body parts/some have no talent etc.makes you hate going to the movies these days.

[@celiaallen6798]

@This Guy Thanks for the correction👍.I had read the twenties age in an old article some time back.

[@carrieannstallcup99]

@This Guy ya they treated her like shit, MGM nothing to be proud of the Way they treated children the way they treated people......

[@carrieannstallcup99]

@This Guy Ya MGM was nothing to be proud of.. The way they treated children was just disgusting as well as way they treated people..... 🤢

[@carrieannstallcup99]

@@celiaallen6798 they have fillers which I'm not against but the fake-ass body parts put on there ass 🤢 why not just get it natural like get a fat spot of your body and take it out of there just put it in your ass,, but big ass don't do shit for me I like skinny.....

[@TheatreGirl-j3w]

I’m doing the wizard of oz right now with my musical theatre group and I’m Dorothy! I am so excited!

[@MaskedMan66]

Congratulations! Please let us know how it goes. :-)

[@TheatreGirl-j3w]

@@MaskedMan66 thank you, I will try to remember.

[@TheatreGirl-j3w]

@HollyTheYellowSceneRabbit that’s cool, but it’s not mine.

[@TheatreGirl-j3w]

@@MaskedMan66it went so well! And I got so many compliments after the show.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@TheatreGirl-j3w Congratulations! Any production of _Wizard_ is judged by its Dorothy Gale, and it sounds like you knocked it out of the park! 🙂

[@jameslafreniere9458]

Perfect changes amazing actors and men who made it all possible

[@leonjones696]

Are they performing MK Ultra to get Judy Garland to become 'Dorothy'?

[@peterheimsoth159]

No. Next silly question?

[@Velvettyy_]

LMFAOOOO the way the narrator points out toto was supposed to be played by a man sent me

[@MaskedMan66]

That wasn't true.

[@randilevson9547]

A tiny little man?

[@peterheimsoth159]

@@randilevson9547 They had a few of those in the movie, and tiny little women too. :-)

[@GinaBecker]

Buddy Ebsen originally played the Tin Man but had an allergic reaction to the tin paint.

[@MaskedMan66]

It wasn't an allergic reaction, and it wasn't to the paint. The paint was just ordinary clown white greasepaint. What he reacted to was the aluminum powder that was dusted over it to make it silver. It got into his lungs and kicked up a congenital bronchial condition he had.

[@michaelshultz2540]

It was not tin paint. It was aluminum powder . And not an allergic reaction. The powder got into his lungs and clogged them up it took months for him to recover and he almost died of slow suffocation. They continued to use the aluminum powder but blended it with a max factor neutral base cream first. After the accident with Buddy. You can find aluminum powder inside of etch-a-sketch toys. I dressed as a silver alien one holoween using the aluminum powder from an etch-a-sketch mixed with a clear makeup base. In case you ever want to duplicate.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@michaelshultz2540 It only took Ebsen a month and a half to recover, which was long enough. When Jack Haley took over the role, the make-up was changed to an aluminum paste.

[@livewiiiiire]

You should make a video detailing Judy Garland's experience while filming - such as her prescribed diet of cigarettes and amphetamines. Once you learn about what she had to go through as a young actress, the rest of her tragic life makes a lot of sense.

[@livewiiiiire]

@This Guy I was suggesting *another* Short or several shorts, since she is doing an Old Hollywood series with her Shorts right now.

[@cheryledwards3730]

So sad all the things Judy Garland endured throughout her career. She was an amazing actress and woman. Anxiety, stress, depression, and pills were her demise. The problems with the Tin Woodmans, Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witche's costumes were just terrible. But, they didn't have the knowledge then that they have today.

[@livewiiiiire]

@@cheryledwards3730 agreed! She was horribly abused by the studio (as was the norm back then) and yes, hindsight is 20/20 but dang they really messed her up for life. Among others who worked on that film. All of it sounds horrific, but I will always be particularly salty about the way Garland was treated by Hollywood and the movie studios. She was failed by everyone around her when they made money off of her back.

[@millers3888]

No doubt Judy was put on a diet, but I think the whole “100 cigarettes a day diet” is an urban legend. I’ve never heard or read about that in any of her biographies, and those many cigarettes would have absolutely destroyed her singing voice, which didn’t start to really fade until the mid-1960s.

[@livewiiiiire]

@@millers3888 I didn't claim it was 100 a day, but she was definitely made to smoke cigarettes in order to curb hunger.

[@aarongilmore1254]

The horses were colored with gelatin but not green gelatin…the horse was various colors Also Toto’s original name was Terry

[@MaskedMan66]

The horses were covered with a mix of make-up and vegetable dye.

[@Herowebcomics]

Wow! So many things almost went wrong in this movie! Over the rainbow is like the theme song of Wizard of OZ now!😮

[@MaskedMan66]

Worse things have happened on other movies. For just one example, David Holmes, who was Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double on _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,_ is a quadriplegic because of stunt that went wrong.

[@Ohjustlovely]

Using a REAL lion? Well, that was a short movie. 😀

[@MaskedMan66]

?

[@MaggieMasse]

Directors: we’re doing the best we can Actors: are you trying to kill us? 😮

[@Ben-Hollingbery]

One of my American ancestors was the cinematographer on Gone With The Wind

[@MaskedMan66]

Name?

[@bigdeal6852]

Knew about all of it... except the Cowardly Lion suit material. Interesting ! 👍

[@MaskedMan66]

That one is true, but a lot of this is rubbish.

[@natalierich5191]

Wizard of Oz should have least one a Oscar they play that movie more than gone with the wind I love wizard of Oz so much over the rainbow

[@MaskedMan66]

It won three Oscars.

[@Aarenthewriter]

This is amazing facts, poor Judy, Lord knows what she had to do to get the part😢

[@MaskedMan66]

She didn't have to do a thing; Mervyn LeRoy had seen her work in other movies and was hugely impressed by her singing, dancing and acting. "Poor Judy" was the darling of the set, and not at all hated or abused.

[@alyshakelley403]

She was absued

[@8jaime8]

@MaskedMan66 She was abused. Her mother and the studio saw to it that she was given highly addictive prescription drugs, even though she was a child. It was to control her weight and make her sleep and wake as required, so she could perform through the crushing hours she worked. This created the addiction that would eventually kill her aged just 47.

[@whatdacatdoin7640]

@@MaskedMan66she was actually very infamously abused. the information is there, look it up if you’re interested

[@MaskedMan66]

@@8jaime8 She took a prescription appetite suppressant which is still on the market today. That was it. Why would she have needed anything to "make her sleep" when she was going to need to be awake for doing her job? By the way, being a minor, and therefore subject to California child labor laws, she only worked for four hours of the eight-hour shooting day. She had two hours for school with her tutor, and the rest was free time. Judy's death was as a result of an accidental overdose of barbiturates, to which, ironically, she was not addicted.

[@MaskedMan66]

Judy Garland was always the number one choice to play Dorothy; part of why Mervyn LeRoy made the movie was as a showcase for her amazing talents. Toto was never intended to be played by a human performer. There's nothing odd about people wearing animal skins; those were our first garments. The snow was crushed gypsum, not asbestos. Terry was not paid, her trainer was. Each of the Singer Midgets made $100.00 a week. One of them, Mickey Carroll, made $500.00 a week thanks to his buddy Zeppo Marx of the Marx Brothers. Green was the one color that the Horse of a Different Color did NOT turn. And the coloring was done with a mixture of make-up and vegetable dye. There was no gelatin in the formulation. Not "producers." There was only one producer on the film. But it was an interim director, George Cukor, who decided that even though the literary Dorothy Gale was blonde, Judy should look more like herself. They considered using a real lion as the Cowardly Lion for about three seconds.

[@nancylowe2692]

Two of the best movies ever made were made that year 1939. Instant classics.

[@peterheimsoth159]

Only two? A ton of great movies came out in 1939. What's the other one you mean?

[@dabzprincess92]

Wow finally after 50 plus years a quality video on facts. The one important missed was the lead and other medals in the tin man's makeup making him extremely sick. Hats off mates. GREAT job.

[@MaskedMan66]

Not a very good job at all, actually. Most of this is in error.

[@dabzprincess92]

@@MaskedMan66 how's that? Care to expand on that? I'm always fact interested and wikipedia has been the worst thing to happen to the world 9f definition and grammar being anyone can add their 2 cents. Please explain so I better educate myself.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@dabzprincess92 Judy Garland was always the number one choice to play Dorothy; part of why Mervyn LeRoy made the movie was as a showcase for her amazing talents. Toto was never intended to be played by a human performer. There's nothing odd about people wearing animal skins; those were our first garments. The snow was crushed gypsum, not asbestos. Terry was not paid, her trainer was. Each of the Singer Midgets made $100.00 a week. One of them, Mickey Carroll, made $500.00 a week thanks to his buddy Zeppo Marx of the Marx Brothers. Green was the one color that the Horse of a Different Color did NOT turn. And the coloring was done with a mixture of make-up and vegetable dye. There was no gelatin in the formulation. Not "producers." There was only one producer on the film. But it was an interim director, George Cukor, who decided that even though the literary Dorothy Gale was blonde, Judy should look more like herself. They considered using a real lion as the Cowardly Lion for about three seconds. Is there anything else you might be curious about?

[@dii392]

Not that actor. The original choice was Buddy Ebsen.(Later, played Jed Clampett) He had an extreme reaction to the silver makeup, so was replace by Jack Haley.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@dii392 It wasn't the make-up itself, that was just greasepaint, but the aluminum powder dusted over it like setting powder was what affected him. Otherwise, you've got it.

[@gionnijohnson408]

It's funny because when i was younger i used to think the tornado was a giant moving spoon in the background lol!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gionnijohnson408]

@HollyTheYellowSceneRabbit I'm a bit confused.

[@jerodcraig8898]

The original movie was almost 2 hours long. The wicked witch had more dialogue and more scenes. After 3 test showings in theaters they decided the witch was too scary for kids. There was also an entire dance scene where the witch sends a jitterbug to bite the group and a musical number in oz after the witch was killed that was cut from the original novie. The scene where dorothy meets the scarecrow was originally longer also.

[@medicalmisinformation]

Buddy Ebsen was cast as the Tin Man but was hospitalized for an allergic reaction to the silvery paint.

[@jeffbirch3407]

The snow was made of Gypsum. Just read any reference book on the Wizard of Oz.

[@KrystalRussell-Wof81]

I read some of this in a magazine I couldn't buy because I didn't have the money.

[@MaskedMan66]

If it's the magazine that was put out a year or two ago, it's probably just as well; those mags always get something wrong.

[@PaulDiNardo-pt5mj]

A great movie. With good messages. Funny. Hilarious. I laughed at the lion he was the funniest. Especially when he started to sing if I were king of the forest. It lost to gone with the wind. Wow. A classic though.

[@peterheimsoth159]

Bert Lahr was a comedy genius!

[@kayodephillips5435]

One of my favorites movies

[@Nenernener123]

Toto was gonna be played by a Dachshund but with negative mentality towards Germany they decided on the terrier.

[@MaskedMan66]

Wrong.

[@KyleKing-vx4by]

So GLAD they didn't take out "Over the Rainbow!" That song became Judy's theme🙏🌹👏🌟👍💞

[@jillianparson7425]

Those are all pretty well known facts 🤣

[@MaskedMan66]

Except that some of them aren't facts.

[@northernbettygirl]

you had me right up till you said the cowardly lion was supposed to be originally played by the REAL MGM LION!!! The real thing! A 9 to 10 foot long animal, weighing in excess of 500 pounds!

[@tonyharris7953]

Put 'em up, put 'em up. 😁

[@MaskedMan66]

Awright, which one o' ya foist? I'll fightcha both togedder if ya want!

[@AssemblyKittyKzzrnn]

I’d love the mgm lion being played as cowardly lion

[@MaskedMan66]

They never seriously considered using a real lion, though they did consider having Jackie the Lion in a cage with Professor Marvel's caravan.

[@MaskedMan66]

What would have been fun would have been to have Bert Lahr do the opening in his Lion gear, but I guess there were contractual reasons they couldn't have. lol

[@jaxbarnettprice]

Nahh Toto was making that bread tho 💵 😭

[@PamPooh1111]

A real lion? Wow lol

[@MaskedMan66]

Two real lions.

[@user-zm4rw5bs3x]

Get A FRIGGIN LIFE "Masked FREAK:.

[@carolineedrawzz]

This makes me happy, seeing wizard of oz videos! I am in my school play as Dorothy and love the movie. Although that one about the lion’s costume..

[@MaskedMan66]

What about it? We've always worn animal skins.

[@Daofro0]

That asbestos snow was diabolical🙌

[@stardusth2o]

Proceeds to share the most circulated facts about the filming that she could possibly think of

[@MaskedMan66]

Most of which are not facts.

[@giovanmorabonilla6400]

Yo the lion suite one had me shoocked

[@azerial]

I love that the horses tried to lick off the jello

[@MaskedMan66]

It wasn't Jell-O, and they didn't try to lick it off. It was a mixture of vegetable dye and make-up.

[@Ricebread343]

None of the horses were colored green, they are white, yellow, red, purple, which represent the colors of Oz. Yellow in the West, Red in the north, purple in the South.... might have that wrong.... anyway id have to look it up again. Thank you

[@MaskedMan66]

You swapped the colors of the North and South, but given that Glinda also swapped locales for the MGM movie, that's probably how it goes in that version of Oz.

[@ollieoreoo]

I wish it hadn’t been made at the same time as Gone With The Wind. Both films are incredible and I wish they’d both have gotten awards.

[@MaskedMan66]

They both did!

[@MaskedMan66]

Judy was Mervyn LeRoy's only choice to play Dorothy. An MGM bigwig in New York said Shirley should have a singing test, so that was duly done, but nothing resulted from it. Toto was always going to be a real dog. Yes, the suit was made from lion pelts. How is that weird? The snow was gypsum, not asbestos. Nothing weird about using chocolate syrup for oil, especially since it was going to be going into Jack Haley's mouth. Terry wasn't paid, her trainer Carl Spitz was, while the Singer Midgets each got $100.00 a week, except for Mickey Carroll, who netted $500.00 a week thanks to Zeppo Marx. The horses were covered with a mixture of vegetable dye and make-up; they did not try to lick it off. Also, green was the one color that was not used. Nothing weird about the change of the shoes' color. Nothing weird about a blonde Dorothy; Dorothy Gale *is* blonde in the books. There was only one producer, and that was Mervyn LeRoy. True about "Over the Rainbow." It wasn't really weird that GWTW got Best Picture; it had been hotly anticipated. The cyclone was a tube, not a stocking. Who has legs that enormous? They only considered using Jackie as the Lion for about three seconds.

[@brendamyers6320]

I heard Judy Garland speaking about the movie once, she said the munchkins tormented her, peaking up her dress, touching her all sorts of stuff.. They were getting drunk and fighting.. amazing interview.

[@MaskedMan66]

No, you didn't, because she never said any of that kak.

[@PDaher]

Actually the horse of a different color was covered with gelatin powder… not Jello! The production team had to monitor the horse carefully, as it kept licking off the gelatin.

[@MaskedMan66]

It was two horses, they were covered with a mixture of vegetable dye and make-up, and they did not try to lick it off.

[@owenhans3633]

Dorthy “Toto I don’t think we’re in Kansas” Toto“I praise the rains down in Africa”

[@MaskedMan66]

"Bless," not "praise."

[@LavendarHazeSw1ftie.13]

Did you know that the author who wrote the original book made Dorothy's hair blonde instead that's the reason she wore a wig but decided not to

[@MaskedMan66]

Baum never described Dorothy's hair color one way or the other, but the man who illustrated most of the Oz books drew her as a blonde.

[@TexasNorthDFW]

Knew about Shirley Temple. She had a horrific experience in her MGM meeting. The asbestos snow, which was common on sets back then. The horse covered in Jell-O is common knowledge. Over the Rainbow almost being cut is in a few documentaries. The Oscar winner that year being Gone With The Wind is VERY well known.

[@MaskedMan66]

Shirley had a singing test, and nothing untoward happened. The snow was gypsum, which was far more common. The horses were covered in a mixture of vegetable dye and make-up.

[@User01xo]

I mean Toto was in the movie longer then the munchkins 🤷‍♀️

[@PaulDiNardo-pt5mj]

The lion had me cracking up laughing.

[@christianaguiare544]

They were gonna use a real life predator on the set while playing someone as a dog 😂

[@ih8utbe]

Joan Crawford and Gale Sondergard were trying for the Wicked Witch of the West.

[@MaskedMan66]

They didn't have auditions. Miss Sondergaard was screen tested for the Wicked Witch, but Miss Crawford was not.

[@jaengen]

Joan Crawford would have been a great choice. She could have had a wire hanger in hand!

[@ih8utbe]

@@MaskedMan66 Joan dropped out because of the film "The Women" she was filming.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@ih8utbe She was never in the running for the role of the Wicked Witch. Interesting bit of trivia about _The Women:_ it was one of two movies, the other being _The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,_ that were released on the day that World War II began in Europe.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@jaengen She wasn't even a mother yet, or at least had only just become pregnant; her daughter was born in 1939.

[@antoinettegreen5344]

Would have love to see The MGM Lion singing!!

[@candyostrander2884]

Glad it went the way it did, I like the movie, the way it is

[@LanceSolo72]

Shirley Temple didn't take the role bc William B Mayer (of MGM) exposed himself to her when she came in to audition (she was 12)

[@andrewnelson3403]

L Frank Baum wrote much of the book vacationing in the winters on Coronado island. Hotel del Coronado is said to be his inspiration for the emerald city.

[@MaskedMan66]

I don't know who said that, but whoever it was was either lying or badly misinformed. The Emerald City was inspired by the White City at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which Baum visited with his family.

[@ZoSo_x]

Blonde Dorothy reminds me of Alice in Wonderland 😅 she looked great with blonde hair though 💛

[@MaskedMan66]

Dorothy is blonde in the Oz books.

[@peterheimsoth159]

Producer Mervyn LeRoy always had Judy in mind for the role of Dorothy; one of the reasons he made the movie in the first place was so he could star her in it, knowing she could carry the film. An MGM exec in New York said Shirley should have a singing test, so that was done, but it was just a formality. Nothing weird there. Toto was always going to be a dog. Nothing weird there. Bert Lahr wasn't the first human being to wear animal skins, and he wasn't the last. Nothing weird there. The snow was gypsum. Nothing weird there. Nothing weird about the chocolate syrup; it was quite a sensible idea, really Terry did not get paid, her trainer did. Carl Spitz had a weekly salary of $125.00, only 25 bucks more than the Singer Midgets, who obviously made more than fifty bucks a week. Nothing weird there. The horses were covered in a mixture of make-up and vegetable dye-- and they were never green. They also didn't try to lick it off. Nothing weird about the change of shoe color. Nothing weird about a blonde Dorothy Gale; she's blonde in the books. (P.S.: There was only one producer on the film) Jackie was never going to be the Lion.

[@aliciamorris07]

Why is no one talking about he wore real lion skin

[@donarthiazi2443]

Meh... no big deal. Just a costume 🧏‍♂️

[@oliviacarr8582]

It’s a little creepy to look at yeah

[@MaskedMan66]

@@oliviacarr8582 Oh, come on.

[@MaskedMan66]

So? People wear animal skin, fur, and other things. We have done ever since we've been wearing anything.

[@Andrew-mi7bt]

Many people used ( and still) fur coats , so I don’t see the paranoia . Yea is not correct for the animal abuse but, was a simple fur coat .

[@baylorsailor]

The dog trainer made the money not the dog itself. It was hard to find trained dogs, cats, or any animals at that time. He was given that money because that's what his fee was for his hard work training the dog.

[@MaskedMan66]

It wasn't hard at all. That man, Carl Spitz, had been training animals and animal trainers since 1929.

[@DankPeezy]

No one has ever explained to me where the scarecrow got the gun from.

[@MaskedMan66]

Figure it out for yourself. The Wizard ordered them to kill the Wicked Witch. The next time we see them, the boys are all armed. Where do you THINK they got their weapons from?

[@kenya1067]

I'm just glad they used Jello and not lead paint. Everything else sounds insane and it's a shock any of them survived or created descendents.

[@Ohjustlovely]

They had more regard for the horses than for human actors (Buddy Ebsen, Margaret Hamilton).

[@MaskedMan66]

They didn't use lead paint on anything. Nor did they use Jell-O on the horses; they used a mixture of vegetable dye and make-up.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@Ohjustlovely No, they did not.

[@frustratedmajority851]

And originally, her slippers were silver, not ruby. It symbolizes the corrupt financial system

[@MaskedMan66]

It doesn't "symbolize" anything; it was just another in the long line of magic shoes one finds in fairy tales.

[@InterplanetareFreiheitTV-br9mn]

Sweet Film

[@gabb387]

I was not prepared 💀 hahha

[@yoseflopez5141]

I guess now we know how the tornado was made lol

[@MaskedMan66]

We've known it for almost a century.

[@markyounan9347]

A munchkin hung themselves during filming. It’s in the very original version. Can be seen on KZbin also

[@change691]

Willy Wonka: the nazis unalived so many dwarfs that they had to bring them in from all over the world as the movie was filmed in Germany.

[@MaskedMan66]

Most of the Oompa-Loopas were Germans; only one of them wasn't. And the movie was filmed in Germany, long after WWII.

[@user-yo1gz5yl4y]

Whenever doing something cutting edge and really new also, you may have some unwanted results during the process. Nevermind of the afterwards, when the cutting edge and new project, is finished completely for.

[@KKonYouTube]

No. Shirley was the imagined roll and i believe tried out, but i cave remember. but not "supposed to" play the part.

[@MaskedMan66]

Judy had it in the bag from the start.

[@saber5585]

More than one director worked on the movie but Victor Fleming was given credit because his name held more clout. He was hired after they had already started. He told them that he had a previous obligation. He left to do another movie. The other movie??? Gone With The Wind!!!

[@MaskedMan66]

And Judy Garland was not best pleased when he was called away! She and he had a great rapport, and for many days, nobody dared mention Vivien Leigh's name in Judy's presence if they knew what was good for them!

[@julianmitchell5776]

This movie horrified me as a kid . It’s still weird as hell and kind of disturbing

[@MaskedMan66]

Yeah, right. *smh* You loved it as a child and you know it.

[@ItsSHAYNAofficial]

Fun fact: My dads dads dads cousin was a munchkin I feel bad she only got 50 but hey 50 and 50 is 100 so 🎉😂❤

[@MaskedMan66]

The Munchkins each made $100.00 a week when the cameras started rolling on the Mucnhkin City sequence. What was this person's name?

[@sherriepugh1935]

Toto actually got stepped on by another actor, and the wicked witch suffered third-degree burns on her hand and second-degree burns on her face

[@MaskedMan66]

Ancient news. Terry's paw healed and so did Miss Hamilton's hand and face.

[@wadewilson8011]

Yeah for a movie that's been out for 85 years, safe to say that I knew about 98% of this already.

[@MaskedMan66]

And most of it is wrong.