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Harburg and Gorney were offered a contract with Paramount: in Hollywood, Harburg worked with composers Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, and Burton Lane, and later wrote the lyrics for The Wizard of Oz, one of the earliest known "integrated musicals," for which he won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for "Over the Rainbow."
In the 1939 adaption of The Wizard of Oz, the Guardian of the Gates appears as the "Gatekeeper" portrayed by Frank Morgan (who also portrays Professor Marvelous, the Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City Coachman, and the Guard). When Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion reach the Emerald City, they ring on the bell which alerted the ...
She is a member of the International Wizard of Oz Club and has been from before she translated the Harry Potter series. [2] She has also translated books by Jacqueline Wilson , Diana Wynne Jones and Noel Streatfeild , and adapted an annotated edition of The Wizard of Oz for Hebrew readers.
1938 (33) Hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to compose songs for The Wizard of Oz. 1938 (33) While driving along Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and stopping in front of Schwab's Drug Store, he came up with the song "Over the Rainbow". 1939 (34) Wrote music for the Marx Brothers' film At the Circus. 1941 (36) Wrote "Blues in the Night"
Eighty-five years ago, The Wizard of Oz arrived in cinemas and forever changed the art form. Based on L. Frank Baum's novel, the beloved film follows Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and her cast of ...
The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was. East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University Press, 1957. Revised 1994. Hearn, Michael Patrick. The Critical Heritage Edition of the Wizard of Oz. New York, Schocken, 1986. Koupal, Nancy Tystad. Baum's Road to Oz: The Dakota Years. Pierre, SD, South Dakota State Historical Society, 2000. Koupal, Nancy Tystad. Our ...
Loosely based on the original 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" written by L. Frank Baum, "Wicked" tells the background story of the witches we meet in Oz during Dorothy's famous visit.
With Wicked, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, now in theaters, PEOPLE takes a look back at the 1939 classic. For years, people have claimed the fantasy film starring Judy Garland was cursed.