Money made the difference in another casting decision. And so, Margaret Hamilton was brought in for the role. Gale Sondergaard was originally the frontrunner for the part, but after making screen tests, she decided to decline the role as was much the case in those days, most actresses shied away from being portrayed as unglamorous or unattractive. LeRoy imagined her to be a seductive witch, something like the evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, while Freed envisioned an ugly, scary witch. This dispute ultimately determined who would get the part. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990) also explores the casting process behind Oz and includes an interesting disagreement between LeRoy and Freed over how the Wicked Witch should be portrayed. Since Fleming was a friend, Vidor accepted no credit for his work on The Wizard of Oz.
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King Vidor stepped up to finish the last 2-3 weeks of Oz filming, which included the important Over the Rainbow number. Selznick and star Clark Gable, Fleming would be shifted from Oz to GWTW.
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Due to Cukor's differences with GWTW's producer David O. Known as a man's director, Fleming claims he made the film "because wanted two little girls to see a picture that searched for beauty and decency and sweetness in the world." It is Fleming who would receive credit for Oz, and, ironically enough, Gone with the Wind as well. Then Cukor was called away to work on another big film for MGM - Gone with the Wind - and Victor Fleming was assigned the project. Richard Thorpe was first, followed by George Cukor, who was instrumental in creating the screen prototype for Judy Garland's Dorothy. In fact, the film ended up going through four change-of-directors before it was completed. Some 14 writers worked on the script, though only three received screen credit: Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, and Noel Langley who's credited with changing the silver slippers of the book to ruby red, integrating the hired hands on the farm into the fantasy and adding the line "there's no place like home." It turned out Mayer was right about the film being a huge project - too big for one man certainly. So Arthur Freed was assigned to help with casting. LeRoy hoped to both produce and direct the picture, but Mayer felt it was too big of a job. And his new chief of production Mervyn LeRoy (brought in after the death of Irving Thalberg) suggested Oz. Mayer wanted to produce his own "children's" movie. Because Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was so incredibly popular, MGM's Louis B. However, a name you might never associate with The Wizard of Oz was indirectly responsible for bringing the story to the big screen - Walt Disney.
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Many volumes would follow, and by 1938 (when the movie went into production), over 10 million Oz books had been sold. He turned out the original book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 at the urging of his mother-in-law. And it demonstrates the film's universal appeal with foreign language clips - get ready for a German speaking Wicked Witch. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic also delves into the studio vaults to discover missing musical numbers from the movie. Other interviewees include director Mervyn LeRoy, "Tin Man" Jack Haley, Jr. Cast and crew members also add their personal Ozstories - like one from Scarecrow Ray Bolger on being kicked out of the MGM commissary because he looked so strange in costume. Hosting the documentary is narrator Angela Lansbury, who shares her own experiences with the movie. It tells the story of how Oz came to be, from book to screen, and explores the fortuitous meeting of cast, crew, music and special effects that culminated in one of the best loved movies of all time. To mark the occasion, the documentary The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990) was produced. In 1989, movie lovers from around the globe joined Hollywood in celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of The Wizard of Oz (1939).