The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed primarily by Victor Fleming, the film stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale alongside Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr and Margaret Hamilton. It was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but lost to Gone with the Wind. The 1956 television broadcast premiere of the film on the CBS network reintroduced the film to the public.
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The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed primarily by Victor Fleming, the film stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale alongside Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr and Margaret Hamilton. It was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but lost to Gone with the Wind, also directed by Fleming. The 1956 television broadcast premiere of the film on the CBS network reintroduced the film to the public; according to the Library of Congress, it is the most seen film in movie history. The film is the source of many quotes referenced in contemporary popular culture. It is one of the few films on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. In 1989, it was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being \”culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\”. It was among the top ten in the 2005 BFI list of \”50 films to be seen by the age of 14\”, and is on the BFI’s updated list of films to be seen by the age of 15 in May 2020. The movie was considered a critical success upon release in August 1939, but it failed to make a profit for MGM until the 1949 re-release, earning only USD 3,017,000 on a USD 2,777,000 budget, not including promotional costs, which made it MGM’s most expensive production at that time. The Wicked Witch of the West arrives to claim her sister’s ruby slippers, but Glinda transfers them onto Dorothy’s feet.
Glinda tells Dorothy to follow the Yellow Brick Road to Emerald City, where she can ask theizard to help her return home. Despite the Witch’s attempts to stop them with sleeping spells and other magic, they reach the city and see the Wizard, who appears as a giant ghost. As they make their way to the castle, the Witch captures Dorothy and plots to kill her, as she cannot kill her. The Witch sets fire to the Scarecrow, causing Dorothy to accidentally toss a bucket of water on him until only her black outfit remains. They ambush three guards, don their uniforms, and free Dorothy, who leads her three friends to the Castle of Oz. The Wizard and more guards surround Dorothy and free her, but she escapes and leads them to the land of Munchkinland. The house lands in Munchkins in the Land of Oz, as the falling house has killed the Wickedwitch of the East. She invites them to accompany her and ask the Wizard for what they lack, and he agrees to grant their requests if they bring him the Wizard’s broomstick. The Good Witch and the Tin Woodman, who seeks a heart; and the Cowardly Lion, who desires courage. The Scarecrow and the Witch give Dorothy the broomstick to remove her outfit and give her only a black outfit to remove the witch’s black outfit.
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