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‘Wizard of Oz’Brings Screen Something Newothy meetsPresenting what is heralded as the most ideal combine of color, music, dancing, spectacle, pageantry, laughs and thrills, “The Wizard of Oz,” filmization of the celebrated fantasy of L. Frank Baum, comes today to the Coleman theater as the most sensational musical treat to come out of the annals of Hollywood screen entertainment.While natural color has long been held to be useful in many types of pictures, “‘The Wizard of Oz” is declared the first to make use of techicolor on a sound psychological basis.The story of Dorothy opens on a Kansas farm. This part of the picture is done in black and white protography with a new form of tint on the film. But when Dorothy goes to the imaginary Land of Oz, carried there by a cyclone, the picture becomes all-color and remains in technicolor until she returns home.The story is the same as written by L. Frank Baum. In Oz, Dor-a Scarecrow, Tin Woodman and Cowardly Lion and they go to see the Wizard to get brains for the Scarecrow, a heart for the Woodman and courage for the Lion. After many thrlilling adventures they all find they had. what they wanted all the time.In the cast are Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe, Clara Blandick, a little dog named Toto and 10,000 of the amazing people of Oz.The picture was directed by Victor Fleming, who directed “Captains Courageous” and “Test Pilot.” It was produced by Mervyn LeRoy who filmed “Tugboat Annie,” “Anthony Adverse” and “Little Caesar,” among other hits. 1 Six new and catchy songs em-the story, among them Over the Rainbow,•’ “If I Only Had a Brain, the Nerve, a Heart,” “We’re off to See the Wizard,” “The Merry Old Land of Oz,” “Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead,” and “If I Were King of the Forest” written by the well-known song-writing team of E. Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen.bellishnHere are three of the musical comedy stars who dance and sing their way through the delightful absurdities of “The Wizard of Oz,” the spectacular Technicolor musical version of L. Frank Baum’s fantasy which opens today at the Coleman theater. Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger and Jack Haley are starred.
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Miami Daily News Record
Miami, Oklahoma, US
Sun, Sep 10, 1939
Page 17
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