Claim: The producer and director Otis Werner in L.. Frank Baum's Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West is a send-up of Otis Turner, an American director, screenwriter and producer born on November 29, 1862 in Fairfield, Indiana who directed 133 films and wrote 40 scenarios.
Evidence: L. Frank Baum
(as "Edith Van Dyne") Otis Werner is a thinly veiled reference to Otis Turner, a director of The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays and a film version of John Dough and the Cherub. Uncle John Merrick offers to let them meet a filmmaker before they form a lasting opinion on the medium, and this filmmaker turns out to be Otis Werner, the same director who shot the film. Otis Turner (November 29, 1862 – March 28, 1918) was an American director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Fairfield, Indiana, and died in Los Angeles. Between 1908 and 1917, he directed 133 films and wrote 40 scenarios.