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Sherwood Smith uses this name for a new Wicked Witch of the West in her 2005 book The Emerald Wand of Oz. Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked takes the familiar Oz story and inverts it, with the Wicked Witch (given the name Elphaba in homage to L. Frank Baum) as the novel's protagonist and Dorothy as a hapless child.
In 1939, Hamilton played the role of the Wicked Witch of the West, opposite Judy Garland's Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz, her most famous role, and one of the screen's most memorable villains. Hamilton was cast after Gale Sondergaard , who was first considered for the role, albeit as a more glamorous witch with a musical scene, declined the ...
Just because the Wicked Witch of the West melted at the end of The Wizard of Oz doesn’t mean character actress Margaret Hamilton did. In fact, she went on to have an illustrious film career ...
The Wicked Witch of the West originated as the primary villain and main antagonist of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), in which she is given no name. She is described as being completely blind in one eye, and there is no mention of her having green skin.
With Wicked in theaters, PEOPLE is looking back at The Wizard of Oz. Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West, was burned on set, and removing the makeup around the ...
Will the real Wicked Witch of the West please stand up? ... It was Margaret Hamilton's unforgettable performance, in the 1939 film, that made The Wicked Witch of the West a central Oz character ...
Rebecca Leigh Mader (born 24 April 1977) [1] [2] is an English actress, best known for her roles as Charlotte Lewis in the ABC series Lost, and as Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, on ABC's Once Upon a Time.
Everything You Need to Know About Margaret Hamilton, The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West The pair married in 1914 and built their life together, welcoming daughter Patricia in 1916.