Aunt Em - wikipedia Aunt Em Aunt Em Oz character First appearance The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1900 ) Created by L. Frank Baum Portrayed by Mary Carr ( 1925 film ) Clara Blandick ( 1939 film ) Theresa Merritt ( The Wiz ) Piper Laurie ( Return to Oz ) Queen Latifah ( The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz ) Information Gender Female Occupation Housewife, farmer Title Royal Mender of the Stockings of the Ruler of Oz Family Dorothy Gale ( niece ) Unnamed sister Spouse ( s ) Uncle Henry Relatives Uncle Bill Hugson ( brother - in - law ) Unnamed Australians ( in - laws ) Nationality American Aunt Em is a fictional character from the Oz books. She is the aunt of Dorothy Gale and wife of Uncle Henry, and lives together with them on a farm in Kansas. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, she is described as having been a `` young, pretty wife '' when she arrived at Uncle Henry 's farm, but having been `` grayed '' by her life there, implying that she appears older than one might expect from her chronological age. Baum tells us that when Dorothy first came to live with her, Em would `` scream and press her hand upon her heart '' when startled by Dorothy 's laughter, and she appears emotionally distant to her at the beginning of the story. However, after Dorothy is restored to her at the end of the book, we see her true nature : she cries out, `` My darling child ! '' and covers her with kisses. There is no question about Dorothy 's love for her aunt : indeed, her request to the magic Silver Shoes is `` Take me home to Aunt Em ! ''. Contents 1 Oz books 2 Film adaptations 2.1 The Wizard of Oz ( 1925 film ) 2.2 The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film ) 2.3 Journey Back to Oz ( 1974 animated film ) 2.4 Return to Oz ( 1985 film ) 3 Other adaptations 4 Comics 5 References Oz books Em spends most of her life working on farms. In The Emerald City of Oz, she states that she has raised chickens for `` nearly forty years. '' After confessing to Dorothy that their farm was facing imminent foreclosure, they all move to the Land of Oz to live for good in the Emerald City. Princess Ozma appoints Em `` Royal Mender of the Stockings of the Ruler of Oz '' in order to keep her busy. Her sister is married to Bill Hugson. It is never clarified in the books whether it is she or Uncle Henry who is Dorothy 's blood relative. ( It is also possible that `` Aunt '' and `` Uncle '' are affectionate terms of a foster family and that Dorothy is not related to either of them. ) She is featured slightly less than Uncle Henry in the Oz books, despite having a bigger role in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Ruth Plumly Thompson gave her only two brief mentions in The Royal Book of Oz and Grampa in Oz. She had somewhat larger roles in John R. Neill 's The Wonder City of Oz and The Scalawagons of Oz and Jack Snow 's The Magical Mimics in Oz. In The Emerald City of Oz, she shows herself particularly unamenable to Oz, asking for a back attic room, simpler clothing, and is gauche enough to tell Billina that chickens are for broiling and eating without realizing that such a conversation would be deeply offensive. Uncle Henry has seen more of the world than she has, and is much more prepared to accept Oz as it is. In this book, unlike in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, her speech patterns and accent indicators are very similar to Sairy Ann Bilkins, the title character of Baum 's Our Landlady, who, too, was quite set in her ways. Ultimately, though, she comes to the epiphany that she `` ha ( s ) been a slave all ( her ) life, '' and is ready for her life to change. She appears occasionally in the works of Baum 's successors in Oz literature ; one notable example is Eric Shanower 's The Giant Garden of Oz. Film adaptations The Wizard of Oz ( 1925 film ) Em was portrayed by Mary Carr in this production. Like in Baum 's 1900 novel, she is Henry 's wife. The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film ) In this film she is referred to as `` Auntie Em '' ( real name Emily ), and urges Dorothy not to bother them with her concerns when she and Uncle Henry ( Charley Grapewin ) are counting chicks. Hickory ( Tin Man 's alter ego ) addresses her as `` Mrs. Gale '' just before she offers crullers to the three farmhands, and Hunk ( Scarecrow 's alter ego ) does so just afterward. As many women of her time, she is a knitter. The name `` Gale '' appears on the mailbox. Miss Almira Gulch ( Wicked Witch 's alter ego ) says to Henry, `` Mr. Gale ! I 'd like to speak with you and your wife right away about Dorothy ''. Since Dorothy 's last name is also Gale, this implies that Henry is her blood - uncle, and Em is his wife. When Miss Gulch arrives to collect Toto, Aunt Em tells her off, saying to her : `` Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county does n't mean that you have the power to run the rest of us. For twenty - three years I 've been dying to tell you what I thought of you ! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I ca n't say it ! '' ( Baum 's character never mentions anything about religion beyond the implications of Sunday best clothing. ) She is seen during the tornado calling for Dorothy after she ran away, but seeks shelter with Henry who ends up losing his hat when the storm approaches their farm. Unlike Zeke ( Lion 's alter ego ), Hickory and Hunk also lose their hats as they struggle to pry open the cellar door. Both Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are the only characters whose roles are limited to the Kansas sequence and do not make an appearance in the Oz sequence ( though in the stage show Aunt Em is Glinda and Uncle Henry is the gatekeeper ), but Aunt Em is seen again in the crystal ball at the Wicked Witch 's castle still looking for Dorothy. She reunites with Uncle Henry, their three farmworkers, and Professor Marvel ( Wizard 's alter ego ) when Dorothy awakens from being unconscious. Aunt Em was portrayed by Clara Blandick. Journey back to Oz ( 1974 animated film ) Margaret Hamilton who portrayed Miss Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West voiced Aunt Em. She and Uncle Henry ( voiced by Paul Ford ) have a farmworker named Amos ( voiced by Larry Storch ). He does not have an alter ego in Oz. Return to Oz ( 1985 film ) Piper Laurie plays Aunt Em, portrayed as a comely, blonde woman of perhaps fifty years -- a physical depiction very different from Baum 's worn and greyed original character. She is worried and concerned of Dorothy 's talk of Oz and presses that they are going to have two mortgages into her mind before taking her to shock therapy in administered by Dr. J.B. Worley. She mentions having a sister named Garnet who would lend them money for the therapy. Garnet may or may not have been intended to be Bill Hugson 's wife. Dr. Worley calls her `` Mrs. Blue, '' which contradicts the MGM film, in which Henry 's last name is Gale, or it may refer to her maiden name. Other adaptations Aunt Em was played by Queen Latifah in the ABC made - for - television movie The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz where this character owned a diner. In the VeggieTales episode The Wonderful Wizard of Ha 's, Aunt Em and her husband Uncle Henry were substituted by a father ( Dad Asparagus ) to retell The Prodigal Son, a biblical parable from the Gospel of Luke. She was voiced by Lurene Tuttle in 1980 's Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Lucie Arnaz performed this character in The Wizard of Oz in Concert : Dreams Come True ( based on the 1939 MGM film ) to benefit the Children 's Defense Fund. She was voiced by Frances Conroy in the direct - to - video animated film Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz. Conroy also voiced Glinda. Aunt Em appears in the Once Upon a Time episode `` Ruby Slippers '' portrayed by Gina Stockdale. Her being the aunt of Dorothy Gale is still intact with this show, but in this version, she, along with Dorothy, is from a fictional version Kansas and not from Earth ( dubbed the Land Without Magic in the show ). After Dorothy returns from her trip to Oz, Dorothy tells her family about her trip. While the rest of the family refuses to believe, Aunt Em was the only one who believed Dorothy and refuses to send Dorothy to an asylum after she was doomed insane by the others. Sometime later, Aunt Em dies, gifting Toto to Dorothy. In the Underworld, Aunt Em runs a diner called `` Auntie 's Chicken and Waffles '' that the Blind Witch considers as the competition. Emma, Mary Margaret, and Red make an attempt to use a bottle given to them by the Blind Witch to have Aunt Em blow some kisses in there as part of an attempt for Ruby to wake Dorothy from the Sleeping Curse as part of her unfinished business of knowing that Dorothy is alright. Before she can do, Aunt Em 's body turned to water before dissolving. Hades appears stating that he has spiked her soup with the River of Lost Souls as Regina stated that they were trying to help Dorothy. After mopping up the watery remains of Aunt Em and putting them in a jar, Hades informs the other souls present to let Aunt Em 's fate be a warning to anyone who turn to the Underworld visitors for hope. Later on while meeting with Zelena, Hades dumped Aunt Em 's watery remains into the River of Lost Souls. Aunt Em appears in the crossover video game Lego Dimensions, as the character of an escort mission in which the player has to take her back home to the Gale farm. Comics In the comic book The Oz / Wonderland Chronicles # 1, Em takes Dorothy to Henry 's grave in St. Ann 's Cemetery. The gravestone has been snapped in two. Em later returned the slippers to Dorothy, having kept them safe at Glinda 's insistence. References Jump up ^ Jack Snow, Who 's Who in Oz, Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954 ; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988 ; p. 10. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Canonical books L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1900 ) The Marvelous Land of Oz ( 1904 ) Ozma of Oz ( 1907 ) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ( 1908 ) The Road to Oz ( 1909 ) The Emerald City of Oz ( 1910 ) The Patchwork Girl of Oz ( 1913 ) Tik - Tok of Oz ( 1914 ) The Scarecrow of Oz ( 1915 ) Rinkitink in Oz ( 1916 ) The Lost Princess of Oz ( 1917 ) The Tin Woodman of Oz ( 1918 ) The Magic of Oz ( 1919 ) Glinda of Oz ( 1920 ) Ruth Plumly Thompson The Royal Book of Oz ( 1921 ) Kabumpo in Oz ( 1922 ) The Cowardly Lion of Oz ( 1923 ) Grampa in Oz ( 1924 ) The Lost King of Oz ( 1925 ) The Hungry Tiger of Oz ( 1926 ) The Gnome King of Oz ( 1927 ) The Giant Horse of Oz ( 1928 ) Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz ( 1929 ) The Yellow Knight of Oz ( 1930 ) Pirates in Oz ( 1931 ) The Purple Prince of Oz ( 1932 ) Ojo in Oz ( 1933 ) Speedy in Oz ( 1934 ) The Wishing Horse of Oz ( 1935 ) Captain Salt in Oz ( 1936 ) Handy Mandy in Oz ( 1937 ) The Silver Princess in Oz ( 1938 ) Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) Others The Wonder City of Oz ( 1940 ) The Scalawagons of Oz ( 1941 ) Lucky Bucky in Oz ( 1942 ) The Magical Mimics in Oz ( 1946 ) The Shaggy Man of Oz ( 1949 ) The Hidden Valley of Oz ( 1951 ) Merry Go Round in Oz ( 1963 ) Yankee in Oz ( 1972 ) The Enchanted Island of Oz ( 1976 ) The Forbidden Fountain of Oz ( 1980 ) The Ozmapolitan of Oz ( 1986 ) The Wicked Witch of Oz ( 1993 ) The Giant Garden of Oz ( 1993 ) The Runaway in Oz ( 1995 ) The Rundelstone of Oz ( 2000 ) The Emerald Wand of Oz ( 2005 ) Trouble Under Oz ( 2006 ) Alternate Dorothy of Oz ( 1989 ) Locations and elements Land of Oz Emerald City Munchkin Country Gillikin Country Winkie Country Quadling Country Yellow brick road Oogaboo Deadly Desert Nonestica Forest of Burzee Land of Ev Merryland Mo Ix Nome Kingdom Noland Ruby slippers Silver Shoes Apocrypha The Oz Film Manufacturing Company Characters Dorothy Gale Toto Princess Ozma The Wizard of Oz Scarecrow Tin Woodman Cowardly Lion Jack Pumpkinhead Tik - Tok Sawhorse Trot Hungry Tiger Good Witch of the North Glinda, the Good Witch of the South Wicked Witch of the West Wicked Witch of the East Aunt Em Uncle Henry Betsy Bobbin Billina Boq Button - Bright Cap'n Bill Eureka Herby Jellia Jamb Jenny Jump Jinjur Jinnicky the Red Jinn John Dough Kabumpo Mombi Munchkins Nome King Ojo the Lucky Pastoria Patchwork Girl Peter Brown Pigasus Polychrome Queen Lurline Shaggy Man Soldier with the Green Whiskers Winged monkeys Woggle - Bug Other writers Authors John R. Neill Jack Snow Rachel Cosgrove Payes Eloise Jarvis McGraw Dick Martin Alexander Volkov Gregory Maguire Sherwood Smith Roger S. Baum Illustrators William Wallace Denslow Frank Kramer Dirk Gringhuis Dick Martin Eric Shanower William Stout Adaptations and other derivative works Films The Fairylogue and Radio - Plays ( 1908 ) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1910 ) Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz ( 1910 ) The Land of Oz ( 1910 ) John Dough and the Cherub ( 1910 ) The Patchwork Girl of Oz ( 1914 ) The Magic Cloak of Oz ( 1914 ) His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz ( 1914 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1925 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1933 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) Return to Oz ( 1964 ) The Wonderful Land of Oz ( 1969 ) Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde ( 1971 ) Journey Back to Oz ( 1974 ) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1975 ) The Wiz ( 1978 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1982 ) Return to Oz ( 1985 ) Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz ( 1987 ) The Dreamer of Oz : The L. Frank Baum Story ( 1990 ) Lion of Oz ( 2000 ) The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz ( 2005 ) Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz ( 2011 ) Dorothy and the Witches of Oz ( 2011 ) After the Wizard ( 2011 ) Oz the Great and Powerful ( 2013 ) Legends of Oz : Dorothy 's Return ( 2014 ) Ozland ( 2014 ) Guardians of Oz ( 2015 ) Tom and Jerry : Back to Oz ( 2016 ) Stage The Wizard of Oz ( 1902 ) The Woggle - Bug ( 1905 ) The Tik - Tok Man of Oz ( 1913 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1942 ) The Wiz ( 1974 ) The Marvelous Land of Oz ( 1981 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1987 ) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 2000 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 2011 ) The Woodsman ( 2012 ) Television Tales of the Wizard of Oz ( 1961 ) Off to See the Wizard ( 1967 ) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1986 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1990 ) The Oz Kids ( 1996 ) Lost in Oz ( 2002 ) Once Upon a Time ( since 2011 ) The Wiz Live ! ( 2015 ) Lost In Oz ( 2015 ) Emerald City ( 2017 ) Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz ( 2017 ) Comics Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz ( 1904 -- 05 ) Adventures in Oz ( 1986 -- 92 ) The Enchanted Apples of Oz ( 1986 ) Oz Squad ( 1991 ) Lost Girls ( 1991 -- 92 ) Oz ( 1994 ) Dorothy of Oz ( 2006 ) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 2009 ) Video games The Wizard of Oz ( 1993 ) The Wizard of Oz : Beyond the Yellow Brick Road ( 2008 ) Emerald City Confidential ( 2009 ) Parodies The Wozard of Iz Os Trapalhões eo Mágico de Oróz The Wonderful Wizard of Ha 's Wizard of Odd Reimagining The Wizard of Mars ( 1965 ) Hunter ( 1973 ) Zardoz ( 1974 ) Oz ( 1976 ) The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ) A Barnstormer in Oz ( 1982 ) The Wizard of A.I.D.S. ( 1987 ) The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz ( 1990 ) Twister ( 1994 ) The Dark Tower IV : Wizard and Glass ( 1997 ) Tin Man ( 2007 ) Dorothy Must Die ( 2014 ) The Wicked Will Rise ( 2015 ) The Wicked Years Wicked Son of a Witch A Lion Among Men Out of Oz Wicked ( musical ) Characters Others Rainbow Road to Oz MÄR The Wizard of Oz ( pinball ) The Wizard of Oz ( arcade game ) Related The International Wizard of Oz Club The Baum Bugle Portal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aunt_Em&oldid=808775740 '' Categories : Oz ( franchise ) characters Fictional characters from Kansas Fictional characters introduced in 1900 Fictional farmers Fictional housewives Hidden categories : Wikipedia articles needing clarification from June 2010 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Português Edit links This page was last edited on 5 November 2017, at 02 : 31. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. 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Question: what does aunt em feed the farm hands
Answer: crullers