Eighty-five years ago, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke and their castmates brought the classic story to technicolor life MGM Studios/Archive Photos ... book The Wonderful Wizard of ...

EW has gathered 19 rare images from The Wizard of Oz, from the casting process to production ... Mayer to acquire the rights to L. Frank Baum's book and played a crucial role in the casting ...

And of course there is the evergreen 1939 movie "The Wizard ... Baum's books are still in print. But except for the interesting, ill-fated "Return to Oz" (1985), no modern "Oz" spinoff has made ...

The series, created by Matthew Arnold and Josh Friedman and directed by Tarsem Singh was a sort of modern retelling ... characters from books beyond The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

And it applies, equally, to the "Oz ... pictures, made for a high-style package whose effect was lost when "The Wizard of Oz" was reprinted with lesser illustrators at the drawing board. "A minor ...

(The Print Collector/Getty Images) Review by Michael ... Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (1900), with illustrations by W.W. Denslow. That book, moreover, is the seedbed for 13 ...

But the story of Oz dates back much further than that. For nearly 125 years, the fantasy world of writer L. Frank Baum’s children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard ... to write modern fairy tales ...

The Wizard of Oz is filled with memorable images that would become part of pop culture for generations. Among them, there’s the iconic poppy field sequence, where Glinda the Good Witch (Billie ...

Those are some of the first images shown in “Wicked,” part ... Frank Baum’s 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Baum's book inspired the 1939 classic starring Judy Garland ...

Celebrate L. Frank Baum's birthday, the 150th anniversary of his timeless book, and new historical marker coming soon to the spot of his boyhood Mattydale home on Saturday.