Title: Coronado, California
Content: Babe Ruth, Oprah Winfrey, and Robert Downey. Famous actresses Mary Pickford and Marilyn Monroe also stayed there. "The Del" has appeared in numerous works of popular culture and was supposedly the inspiration for the Emerald City in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". It is rumoured that the city's main street, Orange Avenue, was Baum's inspiration for the yellow brick road. However, other sources say Oz was inspired by the "White City" of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Author L. Frank Baum would have been able to see the hotel from his front porch overlooking Star Park. Baum designed the

Title: Frank Joslyn Baum
Content: Frank Joslyn Baum Frank Joslyn Baum (December 3, 1883 – December 2, 1958) was a lawyer, soldier, writer, and film producer, and the first president of The International Wizard of Oz Club. He is best known as the author of "To Please a Child" (a biography of his father, L. Frank Baum) (1962) and "The Laughing Dragon of Oz" (1936). He was involved in the production of "Wizard of Oz" (1925), and "The Wizard of Oz" (1933), for which he also received writing credit, after which he sold "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" film rights to Samuel Goldwyn. His attempt

Title: The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story
Content: in the Dakota Territory, only to scrap that sentence in favor of Kansas. The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story is a 1990 made-for-television biographical film starring John Ritter as Lyman Frank Baum, the man who wrote "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and thirteen of the other Oz books. Also starring in this TV movie was Annette O'Toole as Baum's supportive wife, Maud, and Rue McClanahan as Baum's tough mother-in-law, Matilda Gage. John's son, Jason Ritter, makes his debut in this telefilm as Harry Neal Baum. At the time

Title: L. Frank Baum
Content: copyright) published "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" to much critical acclaim and financial success. The book was the best-selling children's book for two years after its initial publication. Baum went on to write thirteen more novels based on the places and people of the Land of Oz. Two years after "Wizard" publication, Baum and Denslow teamed up with composer Paul Tietjens and director Julian Mitchell to produce a musical stage version of the book under Fred R. Hamlin. Baum and Tietjens had worked on a musical of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in 1901 and based closely upon the book,

Title: Ruth Plumly Thompson
Content: Ruth Plumly Thompson Ruth Plumly Thompson (27 July 1891 – 6 April 1976) was an American writer of children's stories, best known for writing many novels placed in Oz, the fictional land of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and its sequels. An avid reader of Baum's books and a lifelong children's writer, Thompson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began her writing career in 1914 when she took a job with the Philadelphia "Public Ledger"; she wrote a weekly children's column for the newspaper. She had already published her first children's book, "The Perhappsy

Question: What did L. Fran Baum, author of the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, call his home in Hollywood?
Answer: Ozcot