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Subject: The Wizard Of Oz
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Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 13:45:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 13:45:40 1983
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In response to the person who asked why part of "The Wizard
of OZ" was in b/w and part in color - if you think about it, it`s
pretty obvious.  The b/w parts were at the beginning and at
the end, when Dorothy was in Kansas.  The part in color was
when she was in and around OZ.  Fantasy/reality = color/black&white.

Did anyone see "Ripley`s Believe It or Not" Sunday?
The last 10 minutes talked about problems and cast
changes in TWOO and showed a clip from a song & dance
number that was cut.  It happens just as Dorothy and
her friends enter the forest.  It was almost spooky
that this missing clip was shown (taken from home
movies someone working on the movie took).  The song
was called "The Jitterbug" and kinda sounded like a
swing tune.  Other bits of trivia:

Buddy Ebsen (Barnaby Jones, Jed Clampett) was supposed to be
the tin man, but had a bad reaction to the make-up and was
replaced by Jack Haley, who also had trouble with the
aluminum based makeup.

Dorothy was originally supposed to be played by Shirley Temple.

Ray Bolger was cast as the cowardly lion, but talked himself
out of that and into the scarecrow.

Margaret Hamilton was not the first choice for the wicked witch,
and like Ebsen and Haley, had problems with the make-up.

"Somewhere Over The Rainbow" almost got cut because the idea
of having the star singing in a cornfield didn`t go over
too well with some studio people.

The movie didn`t make money till it was sold to tv.

I must have seen this movie every time it`s been on tv
since I was 4 (that makes 21 viewings) and I never grow
tired of it.

Tom O`Connor