The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

:For the novel, see The Wonderful Wizard of Oz;

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:For other senses of this title, see The Wizard of Oz.

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The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is based on L. Frank Baum's turn-of-the-century children's story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which a resourceful American girl is snatched up by a Kansas tornado and deposited in a fantastic land of witches, talking scarecrows, cowardly lions, and more. It stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton. It also featured a cast of little people in the roles of the munchkins including Jerry Maren as the Lollipop Kid and Meinhardt Raabe as the Munchkin Coroner. While not the first feature film produced in Technicolor (as commonly believed), The Wizard of Oz makes conspicuous use of the technique; its Kansas bookend sequences are in sepia-toned black-and-white, while the Oz scenes are in full three-strip Technicolor.

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1939 - Musical fantasy film - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Kansas - Tornado - Fantastic land - Witch - Scarecrow - Lion - Judy Garland - Frank Morgan - Ray Bolger - Jack Haley - Bert Lahr - Billie Burke - Margaret Hamilton - Technicolor - Sepia-toned - Black-and-white

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