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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 ...
The Wicked Witch of the West also had plans to invade Wonderland, Neverland, Camelot, Narnia, and Shangri-La. The Wicked Witch of the West has a cameo appearance in Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return during one of the Jester's songs. The Jester is presented as her brother who was cursed to be trapped in a jester's costume by the Witch with Glinda ...
Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz, or simply Wicked, is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman.It is loosely adapted from Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which in turn is based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation.
It was Margaret Hamilton's unforgettable performance, in the 1939 film, that made The Wicked Witch of the West a central Oz character. As she has remained, ever since.
It wasn’t always easy being green for Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. In 1939, nearly a century before Cynthia Erivo went viridescent ...
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 ...
Bertha "Betty" Danko (September 19, 1903 – February 3, 1979) was an American stuntwoman and stunt double.She doubled for many leading actresses of the 1930s and 1940s, but is best known for having doubled for Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
Though they are nearly thwarted by the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton), the gang, of course, makes it to the Wizard (Frank Morgan) before Dorothy returns to Kansas with the aid of ...