The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Quotes - IMDb The Wizard of Oz (1939) Dorothy : How do you talk if you don't have a brain? Scarecrow : Well, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking don't they? Uncle Henry Gale : Well, howdy, Miss Gulch. Miss Gulch : [comes into the Gales' yard] I want to see you and your wife right away about Dorothy! Uncle Henry Gale : Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done? Miss Gulch : What she's done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg! Uncle Henry Gale : Oh, she bit her dog, eh? [Uncle Henry tries to shut the gate, but it hits her on the backside] Dorothy : [has just arrived in Oz, looking around and awed at the beauty and splendor] Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more. Dorothy : [after a pause] We must be over the rainbow! [a bubble appears in the sky and gets closer and closer.

It finally lands, then turns into Glinda the Good Witch wearing a spectacular white dress and crown, holding a wand] Dorothy : [to Toto] Now I... I know we're not in Kansas! Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Auntie Em Gale : Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn'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 can't say it! Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Wizard of Oz : Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options [Dorothy watches the Wicked Witch melt] Wicked Witch of the West : You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Oooooh, look out! I'm going! Oooooh! Ooooooh! Wizard of Oz : As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. Tin Woodsman : But I still want one. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Cowardly Lion : All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Scarecrow : I haven't got a brain... only straw. Dorothy : How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?

Scarecrow : I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they? Dorothy : Yes, I guess you're right. Dorothy : How about a hippopotamus? Cowardly Lion : Why, I'd thrash him from top to bottomus! Dorothy : Supposing you met an elephant? Cowardly Lion : I'd wrap him up in cellophane! Scarecrow : What if it were a brontosaurus? Cowardly Lion : I'd show him who was king of the forest! [the Flying Monkeys walking away, Tin Man and the Lion comes to him] Tin Woodsman : Well, what happened to you? Scarecrow : They tore my legs off and they threw it over there! Then, they took my chest off and they threw it over there! Tin Woodsman : Well, that's you all over. Cowardly Lion : They sure knocked the stuffings out of you, didn't they? Scarecrow : Don't stand there talking, put me together. We've got to find Dorothy.

[the Tin Man and the Lion trying the fix the Scarecrow] Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options [last lines] Dorothy : Oh, but anyway, Toto, we're home. Home! And this is my room, and you're all here. And I'm not gonna leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all, and - oh, Auntie Em - there's no place like home! Dorothy : Now which way do we go? Scarecrow : Pardon me, this way is a very nice way. Dorothy : Who said that? Dorothy : Don't be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don't talk. Scarecrow : [points other way] It's pleasant down that way, too. Dorothy : That's funny. Wasn't he pointing the other way? Scarecrow : [points both ways] Of course, some people do go both ways. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Cowardly Lion : Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage!

What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got? Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Dorothy : My goodness, what a fuss you're making! Well naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are. Why, you're nothing but a great big coward! Cowardly Lion : [crying] You're right, I am a coward! I haven't any courage at all. I even scare myself. [sobs] Cowardly Lion : Look at the circles under my eyes. I haven't slept in weeks! Tin Woodsman : Why don't you try counting sheep? Cowardly Lion : That doesn't do any good, I'm afraid of 'em. [sobs loud] Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Tin Woodsman : What have you learned, Dorothy?

Dorothy : Well, I - I think that it - it wasn't enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em - and it's that - if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right? Cowardly Lion : I *do* believe in spooks, I *do* believe in spooks. I do, I do, I do, I *do* believe in spooks, I *do* believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do, I *do*! Wicked Witch of the West : Ah! You'll believe in more than that before I'm finished with you. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Auntie Em : Help us out today and find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble! Dorothy : A place where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away.

Behind the moon, beyond the rain... [begins to sing "Over the Rainbow"] Captain of the Winkie Guard : [after the Wicked Witch has melted] She's... She's dead. You killed her. Dorothy : I didn't mean to kill her. Really, I didn't. It's just that he was on fire. Captain of the Winkie Guard : Hail to Dorothy! The Wicked Witch is dead! The Winkies: [all kneel before Dorothy] *Hail*! Hail to Dorothy! The Wicked Witch is dead! Dorothy : The broom! May we have it? Captain of the Winkie Guard : [hands Dorothy the broomstick] Please. And take it with you. Dorothy : Oh, thank you so much! Now we can go back to the Wizard, and tell him the Wicked Witch is dead! The Winkies: The Wicked Witch is dead! Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Dorothy : It really was no miracle. What happened was just this...

Dorothy : [singing] The wind began to switch / The house, to pitch / And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch / Just then the Witch / To satisfy an itch / Went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch! Munchkin: And, oh, what happened then was rich! Munchkins: [singing] The house began to pitch / The kitchen took a slich / It landed on the Wicked Witch in the middle of a ditch / Which was not a happy situation for the Wicked Witch! Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Cowardly Lion : Put 'em up, put 'em up! Which one of you first? I'll fight you both together if you want. I'll fight you with one paw tied behind my back. I'll fight you standing on one foot. I'll fight you with my eyes closed... ohh, pullin' an axe on me, eh? Sneaking up on me, eh? Why, I'll... Ruff! Munchkin : If any! Mayor of Munchkin City : Yes - let the joyous news be spread! The Wicked Old Witch at last is dead!

Dorothy : Did you say something? Tin Woodsman : [indiscernible sounds from the Tin Man, who is rusted] Dorothy : He said oil can! Scarecrow : Oil can what? Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options [Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man watch as the Wicked Witch of the West vanishes into a fireball] Scarecrow : I'm not afraid of her! I'll see you get safely to the Wizard now, whether I get a brain or not. Stuff a mattress with me. Ha! Tin Woodsman : I'll see you reach the Wizard, whether I get a heart or not. Beehive, bah! Let her try and make a beehive out of me! [snaps] Dorothy : Oh, you're the best friends anybody ever had. And it's funny, but I feel as if I'd known you all the time, but I couldn't have, could I? Scarecrow : I don't see how. You weren't around when I was stuffed and sewn together, were you? Tin Woodsman : And I was standing over there, rusting for the longest time.

Dorothy : Still, I wish I could remember, but I guess it doesn't matter anyway. We know each other now, don't we? Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Cowardly Lion : [singing] If I were king of the fore-e-e-est / Not queen, not duke, not prince / My regal robes of the fore-e-e-est / Would be satin, not cotton, not chintz / I'd command each thing, whether fish or fowl / With a r-r-ruff and a r-r-ruff, and a royal growl - R-R-Ruff! / As I click my heels / All the trees would kneel / And the mountains bow / And the bulls kowtow / And the sparrow would take wing / If I, if I were ki-i-i-i-ng! / The rabbits would show respect to me / The chipmunks genuflect to me / Though my tail would lash / I would show compash / For every underling / If I, if I were king / Just ki-i-i-i-ing! Dorothy : I'm frightened, Auntie Em! I'm frightened!

[Auntie Em's image appears in the crystal ball] Auntie Em : Dorothy? Dorothy? Where are you? It's me, Auntie Em! We're trying to find you! Where are you? Dorothy : I'm here in Oz, Auntie Em! I'm locked in the witch's castle, and I'm trying to get home to you, Auntie Em! [Auntie Em's image fades out] Dorothy : Oh, Auntie Em, don't go away! I'm frightened! Come back! Come back! [the Wicked Witch's image appears in the crystal ball] Wicked Witch of the West : Auntie Em! Auntie Em! Come back! I'll give you Auntie Em, my pretty! [cackling, to the audience, cackling again and the Wicked Witch's image fades out] The Wizard of Oz (1939) Pages: ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 ) ( 4 ) ( 5 ) Background The Wizard of Oz (1939) is everybody's cherished favorite, perennial fantasy film musical from MGM during its golden years.

It was first re-released in 1949, and then in 1955, and then for many seasons, it was featured regularly on network TV as a prime time event (its first two showings were on CBS television on November 3, 1956 and in December, 1959). It soon became a classic institution with annual showings for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and/or Easter time, and was a rite of passage for everyone, and probably has been seen by more people than any other motion picture over multiple decades. According to the Library of Congress, the musical fantasy is the most watched movie in history. Initially, however, the film was not commercially successful (at $3 million) with production and promotion costs set at $3 million, but it was critically acclaimed.

All of its images (the Yellow Brick Road, the Kansas twister), characters (e.g., Auntie Em, Toto, Dorothy, the Wicked Witch), dialogue (e.g., "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!", "We're not in Kansas anymore," "Follow the Yellow Brick Road," or the film's final line: "There's no place like home"), and music ("Over the Rainbow") have become indelibly remembered, and the classic film has been honored with dozens of books, TV shows (such as HBO's dramatic prison series Oz), references in other films, and even by pop groups (singer Elton John with his Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road album, or Pink Floyd's 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon). The film's plot is easily condensed: lonely and sad Kansas farmgirl Dorothy dreams of a better place, without torment against her dog Toto from a hateful neighbor spinster, so she plans to run away. During a fierce tornado, she is struck on the head and transported to a land 'beyond the rainbow' where she meets magical characters from her Kansas life transformed within her unconscious dream state.

After travels down a Yellow Brick Road to the Land of Oz, and the defeat of the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy and her friends are rewarded by the Wizard of Oz with their hearts' desires - and Dorothy is enabled to return home to Kansas. Dual Roles Many of the film's characters play two roles - one in Kansas and their counterparts in the Land of Oz, the locale of the young heroine's troubled dreams. Kansas Role The voice of Dorothy (by Lea Michele). Film Wicked (2014) A movie adaptation of the popular 2003 Broadway musical Wicked. A reimagined film directed by Stephen Daldry. There was a near-fatal burning accident on the set involving Margaret Hamilton.

Two scenes, the Scarecrow's (Ray Bolger) dance, and the jitterbug dance were edited out of the final film - as was Ebsen's singing of "If I Only Had A Heart." [The magic world of OZ was named after the alphabetical letters O - Z on the bottom drawer of Baum's file cabinet.] There were a total of four directors who collaborated in the making of the film: first, Richard Thorpe (for almost two weeks) and then George Cukor (for two or three days). Victor Fleming (the credited director) was involved for four months, but was hired away by David O. Selznick to direct Gone With the Wind (1939) . An uncredited King Vidor finished the production in ten more days, which consisted mostly of completing the film's opening and closing sepia sequences in the Kansas scenes. The film perfectly integrated the musical numbers (songs by Harold Arlen and E.Y. ('Yip') Harburg) with the action of the plot - enhancing and advancing the suspenseful narrative. The scenes in bleak Kansas were shot in drab sepia tone, with brilliant, vibrant, 3-strip Technicolor used for the fantasy scenes in the journey to Oz.

The special effects, by Arnold Gillespie, included the cyclone sequence, the flying winged monkeys, the Emerald City views, the poppyfield, and the message written by the witch in the sky: "Surrender Dorothy." An interesting sidenote: the plot of The Wizard of Oz has often been used, rightly or wrongly, as a Parable on Populism in the Gilded Age, to explain the political situation at the time of its writing, including the 1896 Presidential election, and the turn-of-the-century Populist movement. Here are a few of the allegorical connections, most of which were originally recognized by Henry M.

Littlefield, and published in the American Quarterly in 1967: the Scarecrow - the wise, but naive western farmers the Tin Woodman - the dehumanized, Eastern factory workers the Wicked Witch of the East - the Eastern industrialists and bankers who controlled the people (the Munchkins) the Good Witch of the North - New England, a stronghold of Populists the Good Witch of the South - the South, another Populist area the Wizard - President Grover Cleveland, or Republican Presidential candidate William McKinley the Cowardly Lion - Democratic-Populist Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan Dorothy - a young Mary Lease; or the good-natured American people Dorothy's silver shoes - represents the 'silver standard' (acc. to the Populists, "the free and unlimited coinage of silver") Toto - the 'teetotaling' Prohibitionists (or Temperance Party), an important part of the 'silverite' coalition the Yellow Brick road - the 'gold standard' - paved with gold, but leads nowhere the land of Oz - oz.

is the standard abbreviation for ounce, in accordance with the other symbolism Emerald City - Washington, D.C., with a greenish color associated with greenbacks the Poppy field - the threat of anti-imperialism Because Buddy Ebsen (later noted for being cast as Jed Clampett in TV's The Beverly Hillbillies) was removed from the production as the original Tin Man because of an adverse allergic reaction to silver dust make-up, Jack Haley replaced him. [Haley was the father of producer Jack Haley, Jr., who was once married to Judy Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli for five years from 1974-78.] Established 20th Century Fox's star Shirley Temple was considered for the Garland Kansas farmgirl role (but the studio refused to loan her out to MGM), as was W.C. Fields for the role of the Wizard, and Gale Sondergaard as the Wicked Witch. Universal's Deanna Durbin was also considered to play the lead role of Dorothy.

Ray Bolger was originally cast as the Tin Woodsman, but changed his mind to play the Scarecrow - in recognition of his childhood idol Fred Stone (who had originated the stage role in the early 1900s), and because he claimed a pre-existing verbal agreement. The beloved film in Hollywood's most classic year was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture (producer Mervyn LeRoy), Best Color Cinematography (Hal Rosson), Best Interior Decoration (Cedric Gibbons, William A. Horning), Best Special Effects, Best Song ("Over the Rainbow" by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg) and Best Original Score (Herbert Stothart), and won only two Oscars - for its dual musical nominations. [It was competing against the domineering multiple Oscar winner, Gone With the Wind (1939) .] The Story The opening title of the film introduces the fantasy tale: For nearly forty years this story has given faithful service to the Young in Heart; and Time has been powerless to put its kindly philosophy out of fashion. To those of you who have been faithful to it in return...and to the Young in Heart...we dedicate this picture.

In an expressionistic, sepia-toned (beige) opening, young adopted orphan Dorothy Gale (16 year old star Judy Garland, whose real name was Frances Gumm) hurries down a flat, dusty Kansas country road with fences on either side, accompanied by her small black terrier dog Toto. [Teenaged Judy Garland was far too old for the part of young 9 year-old Dorothy in Baum's storybook - so her breasts had to be bound to flatten them and make her appear younger. She wears a blue-and-white gingham pinafore, and sports pigtails.] Obviously being chased or pursued, Dorothy is breathlessly concerned about the welfare of her pet: She isn't coming yet. Toto - did she hurt you? She tried to, didn't she? Come on, we'll go tell Uncle Henry and Auntie Em! Apprehensively, Dorothy rushes into the bustling family farm and flings open the gate where her guardians - matriarchal Auntie Em (Emily) (Clara Blandick) and kindly Uncle Henry (Charles Grapewin) are counting eggs/chicks - their source of income - and worrying about their broken down chicken incubator.

[They bluntly ignore their real 'chick' - Dorothy herself.] She attempts to tell them about their nasty neighbor, the dreaded Miss Almira Gulch (Margaret Hamilton): Dorothy: Just listen to what Miss Gulch did to Toto. She -- Auntie Em: Dorothy, please. We're trying to count. Dorothy: Oh, but Aunt Em, she... Uncle Henry: (gently admonishing) Don't bother us now, honey. This old incubator's goin' bad and we're likely to lose some of our chicks. The upset young girl isn't taken seriously by her aunt and uncle - the adults are too busy with saving some newly-hatched chicks to be bothered and listen to her foolish concerns. Dorothy tries to convince them that Miss Gulch hit Toto on the back with a rake because he got into her garden and chased her "nasty old cat." "He doesn't do it every day - just once or twice a week and he can't catch her old cat anyway," she explains. The cranky neighbor is threatening to have her little dog taken by the sheriff and put to sleep.

Dorothy takes her problem over to the farm's hired helpers who are fixing a wagon in the farmyard - maybe they will listen. Tall and slender hired man Hunk (Ray Bolger), quickly characterized as lacking brains and intelligence (foreshadowing his other role as the brains-lacking Scarecrow), off-handedly counsels Dorothy, prophetically, to use her brain - and not walk home near Mrs. Gulch's house to avoid trouble: Hunk: Now look it, Dorothy. You ain't usin' your head about Miss Gulch. Think you didn't have any brains at all! Dorothy: I have so got brains. Hunk: Well, why don't you use 'em? When you come home, don't go by Miss Gulch's place. Then Toto won't get in her garden, and you won't get in no trouble, see? Dorothy: Oh, Hunk. You just won't listen, that's all. Hunk: Well, your head ain't made of straw, you know. Farm worker Zeke (Bert Lahr) is herding the hogs into a fenced enclosure.

As Zeke feeds the pigs and Dorothy tight-rope walks precariously across a pig-pen fence top, he prophetically advises the distraught girl to have courage (foreshadowing future scenes of his own bravery and cowardice as the Cowardly Lion): Zeke (to the pigs): Say, get in there before I make a dime bank outta ya! (To Dorothy) Are you gonna let that ol' Gulch heifer try and buffalo ya? She ain't nothin' to be afraid of. Have a little courage, that's all. Dorothy: I'm not afraid of her. Zeke: Well, the next time she squawks, walk right up to her and spit in her eye. That's what I'd do. Dorothy topples off the fence railing into the pig sty, causing Zeke to frantically haul her out from the squealing pigs and rescue her from being trampled - and then faint with fright at his own bravery . After being rescued, Dorothy realizes: "Why Zeke, you're just as scared as I am!" Hunk teases Zeke: "What's the matter?

Gonna let a little ol' pig make a coward out of ya?" The third hired hand, Hickory (Jack Haley), who has been preoccupied with "tinkering" on a metal contraption joins the commotion. [He is building a tornado-stopping device in an attempt to become famous - something that was cut from the script.] Auntie Em is disturbed by the "three shiftless farmhands" and their "jabber-wapping when there's work to be done," but Hickory, who desires social status and respect boasts (foreshadowing a future scene in which, as the Tin Man, he is frozen with rust like a statue): "But someday, they're gonna erect a statue to me in this town." She jokes with him: "Well, don't start posing for it now." After giving everyone some freshly baked crullers [fat-fried sweet cakes], Dorothy's harried Aunt rebuffs her and sternly chides her for causing trouble - suggesting that she find a place where she won't get into anyone's way: Now Dorothy, will you stop imagining things. You always get yourself into a fret over nothing.

Now you just help us out today and find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble. This cues up a forlorn and crestfallen Dorothy for the singing of her beloved, haunting and plaintive, but immortal song "Over the Rainbow." Dreaming, yearning and wistfully longing for a trouble-free, fascinating, far-away world beyond her home-land where happiness can be found - where bluebirds fly and there are colorful rainbows. [In Baum's book, Kansas was "gray" and drab - appropriately accentuated by the sepia-toned opening that is faithful to the source material.] In the barnyard, she strolls from a bale of hay (on which she leans back), to an old wheel (that she pulls), to a discarded piece of farm machinery (on which she and Toto sit), while singing about leaving her home: (Speaking) Some place where there isn't any trouble (To Toto) Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train, It's far, far away, behind the moon, beyond the rain.

(Singing) Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that I've heard of, once in a lullaby Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true The Wizard of Oz: 71 facts for the film's 71st birthday | Catherine Shoard | Film | The Guardian Movies The Wizard of Oz: 71 facts for the film's 71st birthday As today's Google doodle celebrates 71 years of The Wizard of Oz, we present 71 things you might not know about the musical classic starring Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz, which has been awarded a Google doodle to mark its 71st anniversary Thursday 12 August 2010 07.02 EDT First published on Thursday 12 August 2010 07.02 EDT Share on Messenger Close 1) So frightening was Margaret Hamilton's performance as the Wicked Witch of the West that most of her scenes were heavily edited or cut entirely. 2) When the script was written, the part of the Wizard had been earmarked for WC Fields .

3) Judy Garland's white dress was actually pink as it was easier to shoot in Technicolor. 4) A sequel using the original cast was mooted, but scrapped after Garland became such a big star and Hamilton expressed doubts over the feasibility of such a project. 5) The film has numerous lines in Premiere magazine's poll to find the 100 Greatest Movie Lines. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" came in at No 24. 6) "There's no place like home" came in at No 11. 7) "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" was at No 62. 8) "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" was No 99. 9) The same magazine named it one of the 20 most overrated movies of all time. 10) Judy Garland's childlike physique was achieved with the help of a corset. 11) Several actors playing Winged Monkeys were injured when the piano wires holding them up snapped during a shoot on the haunted forest scene. 12) An unused screenplay was written by Ogden Nash .

13) Reports suggest each Munchkin earned $50 per week, while Toto bagged $125 per week. 14) Jell-O crystals were stuck over all the horses in the Emerald City palace to lend them their colour. The scenes were shot speedily, before the horses began to lick them off. 15) The running time is 101 minutes, but the original cut was 112 minutes – only audiences at test screenings have seen the additional 11 minutes. 16) MGM toned down the gore in L Frank Baum 's novel, which involves scenes showing "Kalidahs" (tiger-bear hybrids) being dashed to pieces in a crevasse, the Tin Woodman using his axe to decapitate a wildcat and 40 wolves, and bumblebees stinging themselves to death against the Scarecrow. 17) The production costs came in at $2,777,000 – a vast sum for the time. On initial release, the film only earned $3m. 18) MGM head Louis B Mayer had the idea of changing the colour of the slippers from silver to ruby.

19) The song Over the Rainbow came in at No 1 on the American Film Institute's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Songs in American Films. 20) The film is rated No 1 on the AFI's 2008 list of the 10 greatest fantasy films. 21) In their 2007 list, the AFI ranked it as the 10th greatest film of all time. 22) So scary were the costumes worn by Ray Bolger , Bert Lahr and Jack Haley that they had to eat meals in their dressing rooms, lest they alarm other diners in the MGM cafeteria. 23) Bert Lahr's costume weighed 90 pounds 24) In 1989, a pair of real ruby slippers were made to mark the 50th anniversary. These are valued at $3m. 25) Louis B Mayer's trigger for getting the film into production was to trump the critical and commercial success of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). 26) Five different directors and 14 writers were involved in various stages of pre-production.

27) Judy Garland won an Oscar Juvenile Award in 1939 for her role; a gong she would later refer to as the Munchkin award. 28) L Frank Baum received $75,000 for the rights to his book. 29) Standard industrial paint, bought from a hardware store several blocks away from the studio, was used to coat the bricks on the Yellow Brick Road. 30) The oft-quoted line "Fly my pretties, fly" is a falsely remembered bit of dialogue – it's actually "Fly, Fly, Fly." 31) The fire that engulfs the Witch's hands as she's trying to remove the ruby slippers is actually apple juice spewing out of the shoes – the film was then sped up to make it look more like fire. 32) The uniforms of the Flying Monkeys match those worn by the Witch's castle guards (or Winkies). 33) A recycled bit of score from the film Marie Antoinette (1938) can be heard during the castle escape film – the music for both films was composed by Herbert Stothart.

34) To show Dorothy's house falling from the sky, a miniature house was dropped onto a sky painting on the stage floor, then the film reversed to make it appear the film was falling towards the camera. 35) Jack Haley's Tin Woodsman costume was so stiff that he had to lean against a board if he wanted a rest. 36) The film is meant to be one of the most watched in the western world, partly because of its heavy presence on TV schedules. 37) The head winged monkey is called Nikko – also the name of the Japanese town home to the shrine featuring the Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil monkeys. 38) In 2007, the Munchkins were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Seven of them attended the ceremony: Mickey Carroll, Ruth L Robinson, Margaret Pellegrini, Meinhardt Raabe, Karl "Karchy" Kosiczky and August Clarence Swenson. 39) Baum thought up the name for Oz when looking at his filing cabinets, organised A-N and O-Z. 40) Jack Haley regularly claimed that making the film was far from enjoyable.

"Like Hell, it was; it was work!", he was say. 41) Judy Garland couldn't stop giggling while filming the scene in which Dorothy slaps the Cowardly Lion. So the director, Victor Fleming, took her aside and slapped her. She returned to the set and filmed the scene in one take. 42) The line "What makes the dawn come up like thunder?" in the Cowardly Lion's speech about courage is a reference to a line in Rudyard Kipling's Mandalay : "An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!" 43) The tornado was a 35-foot-long muslin stocking, spun around among miniatures of a Kansas farm and fields in a dusty atmosphere. 44) Lux Radio Theater broadcast a 60-minute CBS Radio adaptation of the movie on Christmas Day 1950 with Judy Garland reprising her film role as Dorothy. 45) In 1985 Disney made a sequel to Wizard of Oz named Return to Oz. It has since become a cult classic. 46) The musical Wicked is based on Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

It's essentially a back story to The Wizard of Oz, and shows the Wicked Witch of the West is a positive light. 47) The stage version of The Wizard of Oz returns to London's West End in February 2011. The role of Dorothy was decided by BBC talent show Over the Rainbow , which aired in spring 2010. 48) Four sets of slippers were used in the film, one pair of which was stolen from a museum in Minnesota in 2005. They were insured for $1m. 49) The film won two Oscars for best original score and best original song, and was nominated for best art direction, best cinematography and best effects. 50) A Cairn terrier called Terry played the role of the dog Toto . 51) Spotlights and shadows from camera equipment are visible on the grass as Dorothy and the Scarecrow dance off singing "We're off to see the Wizard". 52) Hamilton was hospitalised with severe burns after a botched explosion in a take of the moment in which she disappears into a cloud of smoke. 53) In the final version of this scene Hamilton is clearly visible making her exit through a trap door.

54) In the original novel, the gift given to the Tin Man is not a heart clock but a stuffed satin heart put into the Woodsman's chest and then patched over with tin. 55) When George Cukor started as the director, Garland wore a blond wig and heavy, "baby-doll" makeup. Cukor changed Judy Garland's and Margaret Hamilton's makeup and costumes and instructed Garland to act more naturally, necessitating wholescale reshoots. 56) Most actors on the five-month shoot worked six days a week and had to arrive at the studio at four and five in the morning to be fitted with makeup and costumes. They would then work till seven or eight at night. 57) The early Technicolor process required a huge amount of lighting, which would often heat the set to over 100 degrees. 58) Jack Haley's aluminium paste makeup gave the actor a severe eye infection. 59) Margaret Hamilton's makeup could not be ingested, so she lived almost entirely on a liquid diet during filming. 60) A persistent rumour suggested one of the Munchkins can be seen having committed suicide by hanging himself in the background of one scene.

But it's been proved false: it was actually a wild crane used in the forest scene. 61) When Margaret Hamilton returned from hospital following her burns accident, she refused to do the scene in which she flies on a broomstick that billows smoke, so the directors brought in stand-in Betty Danko instead. Danko was severely injured doing the scene. 62) In May 2010 Drew Barrymore was announced as the director of a loose sequel to the film, Surrender Dorothy . 63) The New York premiere at Loew's Capitol Theater on 17 August 1939 was followed by a live performance with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. They would continue to perform there after each screening for a week, extended in Rooney's case for a second week and in Garland's to three. 64) The film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress, which selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1989. 65) In June 2007, the film was listed on Unesco's Memory of the World Register.

66) Last year the San Francisco Chronicle devoted a film section front page to the film, in which Mick LaSalle declared that the film's "entire sequence, from Dorothy's arrival in Oz to her departure on the yellow brick road, has to be one of the greatest in cinema history — a masterpiece of set design, costuming, choreography, music, lyrics, storytelling and sheer imagination." 67) A prequel to Wizard of Oz is scheduled to be released in 2013. The working title is Oz: The Great and Powerful. It will be directed by Spider-Man's Sam Raimi and is likely to star Robert Downey, Jr. 68) The pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd music album The Dark Side of the Moon with the visual portion of the film produces moments where the film and the album appear to correspond with each other in a music video-like experience. This juxtaposition has been called Dark Side of the Rainbow . 69) The Observer Music Monthly voted it the greatest film soundtrack of all time. 70) On the Rotten Tomatoes website, 100% of critics give the film positive reviews.

71) The film is at No 10 on the BFI's list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. • This article was amended on 13 August to reinstate the missing 62nd fact.

Question: What are the last words of the film "The Wizard of Oz"?
Answer: There's no place like home