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The ruby slippers from 1939’s The Wizard of Oz are now the most expensive piece of film memorabilia in history. The shoes, worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in the beloved film, sold at auction in ...
The ruby slippers are a pair of magical shoes worn by Dorothy Gale as played by Judy Garland in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film The Wizard of Oz.Because of their iconic stature, [1] they are among the most valuable items of film memorabilia. [2]
A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz” sold at auction Saturday for $28 million. In an email sent to CBS News, Robert Wilonsky, vice president of ...
The ruby slippers worn in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, and once stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota in 2005, auctioned for over $30 million on Dec. 7, 2024.
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum , it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming , who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind .
The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory (2002) Hearn, Michael Patrick (ed). (2000, 1973) The Annotated Wizard of Oz. W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-04992-2; Ritter, Gretchen. "Silver slippers and a golden cap: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and historical memory in American ...
Sale was nearly 10 times the predicted amount
The Scarecrow first appears in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), when he joins Dorothy to go to the Wizard in search of brains. When the Wizard leaves Oz, he makes the Scarecrow ruler, a position he holds until the middle of the second book. Later, he moves to a corn-shaped house in the Winkie Country.