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Released 80 years ago today great movie Wizard of Oz

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bobwjr 10 Aug 26
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this is worth a minute...

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the thermin is amazing. invented by a russian physicist in 1928.
my 2nd fav movie.

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Somewhere over the Rainbow . . . From the movie, Wizard of OZ . . . played on a Thermin . . . .

Originally sung by Judy Garland in the movie . . . 1939!

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Frank Baum's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was published in 1900, and seems to have been an attempt at social satire, as well as a children's book. It also seems to have been an effort at transposing "Gullivers Travels" to an American setting. I always get a laugh out of the Wiz telling the scarecrow that all he needs is a diploma!

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Great classic. I would love to play the Wicked Witch in a Broadway play.

Look more like the good witch Glenda

@bobwjr

Thank you. But, she's boring and wouldn't be nearly as fun to play!

@Athena yup
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I posted this on 17th August in the “This Day In History Group “ as that day in 1939 The Wizard Of Oz opened at Leows Capital Theatre, New York. Was I wrong...I got the information online when I looked it up?

Not sure a friend posted it

@bobwjr I have looked up its release date and it went on general release in the USA on 25th...but it had already been shown in selected venues prior to that....
11th August. - Cape Cod, Mass.& Kenosha, Wis.
12th August. - Oconomowoc, Wis.
15th.August. - Hollywood (Premiere at Graumans Chinese Theatre & Philadelphia
17th August. - New York.

@Marionville thanks
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Buddy Ebsen was going to play the tin Man but he was allergic to the silver makeup.

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It wasn't until the late sixties that I found out that it turned to color once they got to Oz, damn black and white TV. 😁

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That Wicked Witch of the West creeped me out for years.

BD66 Level 8 Aug 26, 2019
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It’s the bat-monkeys that creep me out!
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