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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
There’s so much to love about this picture. Let’s get a little history on this, shall we? February 17th, 1939 is when Victor Fleming left the director’s chair in order to take over Gone With the Wind from George Cukor. Oddly enough, Cukor spent some time on Wizard of Oz as well after original director Richard Thorpe was fired.
Anyway, when Fleming left Oz toward the end of the shoot there was a party thrown for him and today’s picture comes from that party. Nobody looks particularly happy that Fleming is leaving, do they? There’s just so much going on in this shot. I love Margaret Hamilton sneaking some ice cream in costume. I love those great little character maquettes on the table. I love Fleming wielding what looks like a damn machete seconds away from cutting the cake.
So, a very neat little piece of film history. Thanks again to the great bunch of guys at the PEG for bringing it to the world. Click to enlargen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes pic returns to some familiar territory.
-Eric Vespe
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Subject says it all.
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Long live The Wizard of Oz.
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She's eyeing Margaret Hamilton eating that cake with such envy... knowing full well that the studio would have her ass if she touched one piece of it.
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She's eyeing Margaret Hamilton eating that cake with such envy... knowing full well that the studio would have her ass if she touched one piece of it.
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Jan 19, 2012 12:36:59 PM CST
This might possibly be one of the best pics in this column's run.
by fawst
That is epic history right there. I don't know much, if any, of the history of this movie, but it just proves that there is always a great story behind almost any film. Love it.
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Nice pic, still hate the flying monkeys though.
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Behind Garland. Put em' up! Put em' up!
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Two spaces to Judy Garland's left?
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..there is a ton of history on this film, to be easily explored...behind the scenes stuff. Not sure how this would rate as one of the best pics in this column's run, however.
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Jan 19, 2012 12:44:37 PM CST
Now Margaret, pass it along so that everybody can have a piece.
by royston lodge
But, last time there was cake I didn't get a piece, and...
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So say we all.
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and not a Munchkin in sight.
I had hope for LOTR, but Oz remains. -
that's just a joke. i got no beef with that bitch. see that's a joke too.
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Jan 19, 2012 12:50:52 PM CST
Some further observations - Myrna Loy - Dorothy's stand-in...
by misterblue
Yes, I do believe that is Myrna Loy next to Victor Fleming, that was my immediate thought. Don't know if they ever made a film together.
That is Dorothy/Judy's stand-in directly behind her. I forget her name offhand, but you can see they're both wearing the same costume.
Margaret Hamilton's hair is down, which is interesting, as it was up in the movie.
And Lahr is out of make-up, but not in Zeke costume, so it makes sense that this is perhaps end of the day and he's already been cleaned up.
Lastly, very curious that they are all wearing rather heavy coats/sweaters, as those light were killer hot. So it makes sense that this is after the day of shooting. -
Victor Fleming had just finished directing Myrna Loy in 1938's TEST PILOT, along with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Lionel Barrymore - so they must have been fresh friends. Gable and Fleming were old drinkin buddies, and he was the main reason Fleming was pulled from OZ over to GWTW. Gable had major pull!
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I just can't stand the songs. Love the score, hate the tunes.
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Judy looks pensive, rubbing her hands. They had her on a lot of pills at the time to keep her going during the long shooting days. She would attribute her later substance abuse problems to the pharmaceutical experience of shooting Oz.
Here's a famous William Claxton photograph of Judy many years later about to go on stage in Vegas.
I call this image 'Anxiety Much?'
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i hate her flying monkeys.
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Jan 19, 2012 1:21:49 PM CST
@still one of the greatest movies made - and not a Munchkin in sight.
by fat_rancor_keeper
oh there's munchkins in the image.
that's what they made the cake out of. -
Jan 19, 2012 1:36:48 PM CST
Garland wringing her hands...she looks like someone
by openthepodbaydoorshal
is about to find her stash. What? Too soon?
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too soon
not cool breh.
But a joke about cannibalizing munchkins...that's cool -
Jan 19, 2012 1:45:50 PM CST
Who gets to drink out of the filthy paint bucket?
by melgibsoncalledmethenword
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Who's holding up the table?
KaChinGaa!! -
Good stuff.
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is RAAAAY BOLGER!
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It is obvious in some shots of the film that Margaret Hamilton has an awesome rack.
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...I've never really *got* The Wizard Of Oz, it's OK, but nothing to rave about. Possibly it's me being British, so I've got different nostalgic movie references..
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...and they ain't leaving til six in the mornin'.
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Jan 19, 2012 3:26:03 PM CST
billy_d_williams: It looks like Garland's stand-in is thinking the same thing.
by royston lodge
The way she's looking at Garland, it totally looks like she's thinking, "I'd hit that."
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Jan 19, 2012 3:29:23 PM CST
If you look closely, the stand-in has ice cream, but Judy doesn't have any ice cream.
by royston lodge
You'd better believe that stand-in was getting a beat-down later on, out behind the wood shed.
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and film directors could slap an actress just for being female. The Golden Age indeed.
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Next; Poke Crack Mountain.
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Just to the left of Frank Morgan? What here doing there I wonder?
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Gave me nightmares for years.
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The carnival must've been in town that day.
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Jan 19, 2012 5:24:58 PM CST
Where's the shot of them sewing speed into secret pockets in her Dorothy dress so she could keep her weight down?
by mrekoletmelive
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Jan 19, 2012 5:29:05 PM CST
Why was the witch so wicked??? Because no ones ever gotten her wet.
by tikidonkeypunch
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.....I barely know him....
True Story: Auntie Em changing into the WWotW in the crystal ball is probably my top scariest childhood memory, second only to Lugosi's Dracula. I used to hide under the bean bag chair till it was over.
I'll give you Auntie Em!
My favorite moment in the Wizard of Oz? The boys and Toto in Winkie costumes following the guards over the drawbridge into the castle. God I love that music during that.
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Jan 19, 2012 5:43:07 PM CST
That and the no-brains scarecrow figuring out the rope to the chandelier
by lao_che_air_freight
Reaches for the axe - chop - fall - queue chase.
Awesome moment....
(insert AICN Choppah joke here, I've got to run and make dinner)
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I assume the face Garland's pulling is down to the fact she thought it would be a pile of class A on the table, not a giant cake.
And isn't that the most forced 'party' ever!? I don't know why the people who make movies pretend to all get along and respect each other. Half of them look like they'd be happier sitting alone with a bottle of whisky. -
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/New-Pictures-and-a-visit-from-the-Land-of-Oz.html?soid=1104524641178&aid=2uO_aVXdW44
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Got the ears.
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you know she was blowing some studio exec.
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Jan 19, 2012 6:51:22 PM CST
Cap'n... wouldn't you be if you had to party with that bunch?
by hanyoyo
No wonder she did what she did. I'm sure being surrounded by the people she was, because of who she was, gave her no choice! Oh, the price of working in a vacuous and disingenuous industry!
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Related? Who the hell were they?
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Looks like the drum of an old fashioned ice cream maker. Just like my grandma used to have....actually it's in my garage now. It is a big wooden bucket with a metal drum inside....with a crank to make the drum go round and round. You put ice and salt in it to make it really cold. So I think that ice and ice cream drum with a little bit of ice cream on the sides.
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So I'm gonna eat while you take the picture fuckface... that okay with you?
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Jan 19, 2012 11:34:56 PM CST
Where is the dead midget hanging from the soundstage rafters?
by lv_426
Someone should make a trippy time travel mindfuck of a movie all about solving the mystery of the dead Lollipop person rumor from The Wizard of Oz.
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Jan 19, 2012 11:39:27 PM CST
I can't wait for the inevitable action/FX porn Wizard of Oz remake
by lv_426
You know, the one that will probably star Milla Jovovich as Dorothy, who travels through a wormhole and teams up with a rusty old robot, a plant-man, and a genetically engineered half-man, half-lion chimera dude. Toto will be a little companion robot.
The wicked witch will be a weird green alien bitch.
Will probably have some music by Linkin Park and since there is a witch as a villain, also some music by Salem.
Coming to a theater near you, in 2015. -
they sure do like her a lot tho.
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Betty Danko
http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/Betty_Danko -
Jan 20, 2012 9:07:48 AM CST
Depressed as well that the younglings thought that was a paint bucket
by proevad
Oy vey.
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They are wearing the same dress, but she looks kinda familiar. Was she one of those characters they ended up cutting, or is she just the double?
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