Weird Facts About Filming The Wizard of Oz

[@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.

[@Akira625]

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

[@MaskedMan66]

Very true! 🙂

[@takashitamagawa5881]

Watching the movie as a child, that tornado sure scared me. It is still scary to watch - who needs Twister?

[@danidejaneiro8378]

Hot take: special effects were better and more realistic in the past ‘cause they literally built that shyt and filmed it.

[@Kevin_tx]

@@takashitamagawa5881not sure why but that tornado also scared me too. It looks so real😂

[@linguinec9984]

​@@danidejaneiro8378CGI started being used, and it was over 😭

[@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.

[@charlesstafford5261]

Thy also chose red because red would stand out more when dorthy walked on the yellow brick road instead of silver

[@MaskedMan66]

@@charlesstafford5261 Dorothy. 🙂

[@Ranechannel77]

That tornado effect was pure genius! It fooled me.

[@camm7985]

You mean to tell me you thought that they waited for a real tornado to come around to film this?

[@Ranechannel77]

@@camm7985 No they could of used live prerecorded footage in the background though, simular to how they put stop motion monster footage in the back ground of the 1930s King Kong film, either way it looks convincing to me.

[@camm7985]

@@Ranechannel77 ah, I see now lol. I'm sorry

[@IMarie-xs5dg]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@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. 🙂

[@jhhone]

​@@Cleopatra7PhilopatorPlus, executives said it wasn't dignified for an MGM star to be singing in a barnyard!

[@prekcop]

Chile that’s the white gays theme song … oh sorry friends of Dorothy…..!!!!

[@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 ???

[@maddie10173]

The fact that some of the most classic movies of all time (Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, and Snow White) were all in the same year is remarkable to me. 1939 paved the way for filmmaking and raised the bar entirely.

[@terryasheim9038]

Snow White came out in 1937.

[@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.

[@rockinresurrection6542]

​@@AndI0td763 In America at least. It's by far not that famous in Europe let alone Asia

[@MaskedMan66]

@@rockinresurrection6542 It's known all over the world; after all, the book's been around for 124 years.

[@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.

[@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._

[@revanwallace]

Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the West) was a good friend of my aunt, who was in charge of wardrobe at the Seattle Repertory Theater, and would stay with her whenever she was in town for a play. I met her once as a child and it scared me half to death.

[@mistybollinger3312]

Lord I bet!! 😂😂

[@helenmary9628]

Thank you for sharing that!! 💙💙💙

[@YouSimon1000]

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

[@user-wb9ll2oh7k]

nice!

[@justinedie191]

@@user-wb9ll2oh7kI have a big cawk

[@IMarie-xs5dg]

WoW didn't know that! ❤❤

[@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? ;-)

[@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 about "picking it out of" people's wigs; what was this person's name?

[@ProWrestlingMB1]

@@MaskedMan66it’s true it’s gypsum

[@MaskedMan66]

@@ProWrestlingMB1 I know.

[@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 🧠...

[@oiooi6460]

The tornado scene was so much more complex and impressive than you described.

[@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

[@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.

[@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?"

[@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....

[@starbug345]

Can you explain why it might be demeaning?

[@peterheimsoth159]

Not for "a girl," but for one of MGM's stars (even though Judy wasn't a major star yet).

[@peterheimsoth159]

@@starbug345 Because MGM was the most prestigious film company of the day, and some at the top felt it was beneath their high standards to have any of their performers singing in such a rural setting.

[@davidbumbera2864]

Where did you get that? Why would it be demeaning for a FARM GIRL to sing in a barnyard They thought it would slow the film down .

[@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.

[@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.

[@synetralazzar473]

My daughter and I would watch this movie on TBS around Xmas time and her re-enactment of when Dorothy landed in OZ made my holidays☺️❤!

[@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.

[@Thegrungegeek]

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

[@MaskedMan66]

What do you mean?

[@Thegrungegeek]

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

[@MaskedMan66]

@@Thegrungegeek 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. 🙂

[@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.

[@Ke1ko7]

It did but it just didn’t win best picture, arguably the most prestigious Oscar

[@robshighlights6431]

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

[@MaskedMan66]

The world has known that since it happened.

[@jacobjones-4811]

Very Frightening. Not sure why It was necessary to use the Actress in that Scene instead of a Stunt woman.

[@peterheimsoth159]

@@jacobjones-4811 Because it wasn't intended to be a stunt. The way the shot was arranged, Miss Hamilton was supposed to be under the stage when the flames went up. On the fourth take, the pyrotechnics went off too soon.

[@TheatreLover-c3r]

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. :-)

[@TheatreLover-c3r]

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

[@TheatreLover-c3r]

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

[@TheatreLover-c3r]

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

[@MaskedMan66]

@@TheatreLover-c3r Congratulations! Any production of _Wizard_ is judged by its Dorothy Gale, and it sounds like you knocked it out of the park! 🙂

[@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.

[@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.

[@jameslafreniere9458]

Perfect changes amazing actors and men who made it all possible

[@peterheimsoth159]

Not perfect, but amusing.

[@dominiqueconnolly5698]

Wow ‘Over The Rainbow’ is SUCH a classic now, imagine they cut it!!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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. :-)

[@jacobjones-4811]

Was Toto going to have Lines ?

[@brianmerritt5410]

If someone told me that tornado was stock footage I'd have believed them. It looked REAL scary.

[@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.

[@liscel3556]

Love The wizard of Oz always lo love Judy Garland

[@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.

[@jamesf791]

Shirley Temple was considered for Dorothy being that Miss Temple was only 11, where Judy Garland was 16. Shirley Temple was not chosen because she was under contract with Twentieth Century Fox and the head of company would not consent on releasing her to MGM. Plus Shirley Temple voice could not compete with Judy Garland.

[@peterheimsoth159]

Not accurate. Judy was Mervyn LeRoy's first, last, and only choice for the lead. An MGM bigwig in New York said Shirley (who was in fact ten at the time) should be given a singing test, so that was duly carried out, but it was just a formality. Besides, Jack Haley was also a Fox employee, but they used him.

[@jamesf791]

@@peterheimsoth159 Not from everything I've ever read. So where did you get your information from?

[@peterheimsoth159]

@@jamesf791 Well, as far as Shirley's age, that's easy enough to Google. As for the rest, I recommend the books "The Making of The Wizard of Oz" (1977) by Aljean Harmetz with an introduction by Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History" (1989) by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman with an introduction by Jack Haley, Jr., and "The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece" (2019) by Scarfone and Stillman. Other books which contain useful bits of information include ”Down the Yellow Brick Road” (1976) by Doug McClelland, “The Oz Scrapbook" (1977) by David L. Greene and Dick Martin, and "The World of Oz" (1985) by Allen Eyles.

[@Sjp977]

I was honestly relieved to learn they didn’t use paint or dye on the horses like I thought they would’ve given the time period and all

[@peterheimsoth159]

What's the time period got to do with anything? They used vegetable dye and make-up on the horses that played the Horse. :-)

[@flamevix]

Ohhh, that explains why the shoes in Wicked are silver.

[@peterheimsoth159]

Except that "Wicked" isn't connected to any previous version of Oz, certainly not the original book, with its wizened, non-green, one-eyed Wicked Witch of the West.

[@ItsIfrah]

That is scary as hell, and wow, the wizard of Oz and the movie was amazing

[@peterheimsoth159]

What's scary? The misinformation in this thing?

[@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

[@makeupboss3568]

That’s a lot of interesting information. Very cool , I’m just glad they didn’t cut the song “ Somewhere Over the Rainbow “ … it’s such a great song.

[@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?

[@misschanandlerbong753]

@@MaskedMan66bro the wheelers are terrifying and movie Mombi tried to steal Dorothy’s head, that shit scared me too as a kid

[@MaskedMan66]

@@misschanandlerbong753 The Wheelers were very quickly revealed as bullies and cowards, so they don't matter.

[@lollie6760]

Judy Garland’s natural hair was so stunning.

[@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.

[@Ben-Hollingbery]

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

[@MaskedMan66]

Name?

[@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.

[@PaulDiNardo-pt5mj]

The lion had me cracking up laughing.

[@tonyharris7953]

Put 'em up, put 'em up. 😁

[@MaskedMan66]

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

[@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.

[@MaskedMan66]

They only trimmed a few lines of her dialogue. The rest is common knowledge.

[@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.

[@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?

[@josephgratzer]

Hollywood historians generally agree that 1939 was the most prolific year for movies as an art form because they produced the most classics.

[@peterheimsoth159]

@@josephgratzer That year, 365 movies came out of Hollywood; a record that has not been beaten since! 🙂

[@Chesterkins]

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

[@Jellie_Plays]

Fun fact: one of my family members son played the lion!! I didn’t know them personally but I saw pictures!

[@Ohjustlovely]

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

[@MaskedMan66]

?

[@MaskedMan66]

Real lions have been used in other movies.

[@psychohist]

Gone With The Wind deserved the Oscar.

[@ventiismybbg]

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.

[@AlayahAndArchie]

When I was younger I watched this film about 1M times

[@leonjones696]

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

[@peterheimsoth159]

No. Next silly question?

[@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.

[@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.

[@stressmuffin]

My mom was born in 1939, and still alive & growing strong at 85. 🎼🎶🎵🎭”Thank Goodness” 🎼🎶🎵🎤🎭

[@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.

[@scr1231]

She looked pretty with the blonde wig.

[@MaskedMan66]

She loved wearing it, too! :-)

[@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.

[@RozzaMitch0706]

I’m sorry, but the snow was actually gypsum not asbestos

[@DB71995]

Well Judy garland blew that roll out of the water 💦 it was made just for her.

[@garyhillman4993]

More facts - The witch was burned badly and was hospitalised for 11 days. The tin man was poisoned by the silver paint and spent 6 weeks in hospital and was replaced . The director was changed 6 times , 6 different scripts were used n boiled down to two . Dorothy was given tablets to keep her awake up to 18 hours per day and tablets to make her sleep . The film went over one million over budget and lost money , the first nasty witch used was deemed too beautiful and she refused to be made to look ugly so was replaced by the witch who became friends with Judy and appeared in the next film along side her .over 6 different scenes were cut including a singing and dancing part by the main four which cost over 100 grand .

[@jacobjones-4811]

There was an Entire Sequence of the Scarecrow Singing and Dancing in the Cornfield that was Cut.

[@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.....

[@PlatinumPlayAzParlayPartie]

Yeah everything sounded real except the end..... Go scarecrow😅🎉❤

[@Nenernener123]

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

[@MaskedMan66]

Wrong.

[@JacquelineWoodson-b4g]

That is smart with the tornado. Cool!

[@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.

[@Fusion_4000]

Its a timeless movie that has a dark background of how it was made

[@jillianparson7425]

Those are all pretty well known facts 🤣

[@MaskedMan66]

Except that some of them aren't facts.

[@jacobjones-4811]

Glad they didn't mention the Urban Legend where one of the Munchkins hanged himself on the Set.

[@sarahb8695]

Video: "Shirley Temple was supposed to play Dorothy" Me: "lol I knew that" "Toto was going to be played by a man" "WHAT"

[@PamPooh1111]

A real lion? Wow lol

[@MaskedMan66]

Two real lions.

[@RansomShindawakei]

Get A FRIGGIN LIFE "Masked FREAK:.

[@jacobjones-4811]

How would they have made him Talk and Sing ?

[@maggieavilla1336]

Having a real lion would have made this movie a whole other genre.

[@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 .

[@Jay_Blu3]

I actually knew her shoes where silver, in a play I did called the enchanted book shop I played her and went with the book accurate shoes 😊

[@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.

[@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!

[@Waywardtrickdogs]

Fun facts .. Toto’s original name was Terry (her owner/trainer Carl Spitz changed it after the movie was filmed and became popular because lots of people recognized her as Toto). She was brought to Carl for training and never picked up

[@MaskedMan66]

Another fun fact: She worked again with Margaret Hamilton on a movie called _Twin Beds._ Here's a fun publicity picture they took: pbs.twimg.com/media/ErVNL5eWMAAy_sf.jpg

[@AliceMadnessReturnsFangirl_173]

And fun fact about the wizard: Frank Morgan who played the Wizard also played as The Carnival Huckster: Professor Marvel, The Gatekeeper, The Palace Guard, and the Carriage Driver on the Color changing horse! If I remember correctly he actually requested to do all five roles instead of just one I’m not 100% sure!

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

"Colored green with Jello" now that's creative 😊

[@MaskedMan66]

The horse was never green, and the coloring was a mixture of make-up and vegetable dye.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

@MaskedMan66 horse 🐎 was never "seen" right ...sounds right

[@MaskedMan66]

@@MapleSyrupPoet Sorry, what?

[@CandaceDreamer]

To be fair, the dog had way more screen time than the munchkins. With that consideration is makes more since why the dog was paid more. Plus it want really the dog getting paid but the trainers and handlers/owners.

[@KyleKing-vx4by]

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

[@InterplanetareFreiheitTV-br9mn]

Sweet Film

[@ItzKurxmii]

I saw all of these facts bc i love researching flims especially from the past

[@celiam3407]

Jami did the cowboy boots fix Lyssa 😊 😊

[@Lindsayisanosyhooch]

Wait how did a movie lose to another movie that same year with both directed by Vic Fleming? Thats insane. Thats never happened before or since right?

[@qtmatt]

So Toto was actually supposed to be played by a human, but they wanted the cowardly lion to be a real lion. I’m glad sense prevailed.

[@peterheimsoth159]

Neither is true. They were always going to use a real dog as Toto, and they only joked about using Jackie as the Lion.

[@n.k.7208]

The snow was gypsum according to the memoir of Howard J Smit who worked on set as a makeup artist. His job (among others) was to pick the stuff out of Judy’s hair between takes.

[@Zacmaster78]

Can you imagine, on top of everything that went down….including a lion on set!??

[@melissacooper8724]

I would've voted for The Wizard of Oz than Gone With the Wind because of the storyline and the special effects.

[@Urfavmiaaa4]

we all know that if the MGM lion were to be in the movie that Dorothy would've gotten eaten alive

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

It ws gypsum. People love to throw out shock terms like that without actual knowledge.