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As today’s Google Doodle celebrates 71 years of The Wizard of Oz, we present 71 things you may not know about the classic musical starring Judy Garland:

1) It was terrifying performance as Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West that most of her scenes were altered or cut completely.

2) When the script was written by the assistant had been assigned to WC Fields.

3) white dress Judy Garland was actually pink, and it was easier to shoot in Technicolor.

4) A sequel to the original cast was proposed, but was scrapped after Garland became a star so big and Hamilton expressed his doubts about the viability of such a project.

5) The film has several lines in Premiere magazine poll to find the top 100 movie lines. “Ignore that man behind the curtain” entered at No. 24.

6) “No Place Like Home” entered at No. 11.

7) “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas” was at number 62.

“I’m going to get, my pretty, and your little dog, too!” was No. 99.

9) The same magazine named him one of the 20 most overrated movies of all time.

10) child physical Judy Garland was achieved with the help of a corset.

11) Various actors playing Winged Monkeys were injured when the cables that support the piano broke during a shootout in the haunted forest scene.

12) An unused screenplay was written by Ogden Nash.

13) According to reports, each of Munchkin earned $ 50 per week, while Toto in bags of $ 125 per week.

14) jelly crystals stick on all the horses in Emerald City palace to give their color. The scenes were shot quickly, before the horses began to lick.

15) The running time is 101 minutes, but the original cut was 112 minutes – the public only in the test screenings have been the other 11 minutes.

16) MGM toned down the blood spilled on the novel by L Frank Baum, which consists of scenes that show “Kalidahs” (tiger-bear hybrid) are shattered in a crack, the Tin Woodman with his ax to decapitate a bobcat and wolves for 40 years, and bumble bees sting them to death with the Scarecrow.

17) The production costs came to $ 2,777,000 – a huge sum for the time. The initial release, the film earned only $ 3 million.

18) Louis B. MGM Mayer’s head was the idea of changing the color of the slippers from silver to ruby.

19) The song Over the Rainbow came in at No. 1 in 2004, the American Film Institute’s list of 100 best songs in American films.

20) The film is ranked No. 1 in 2008, the AFI list of the greatest fantasy films 10.

21) In its 2007 list, the AFI ranked as the film of the 10 largest of all time.

22) So scared were the costumes worn by Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley who had to eat in their dressing room, not to alarm other diners in the cafeteria at the MGM.

23) Bert Lahr suit weighed 90 pounds

24) In 1989, a pair of real ruby slippers, are to celebrate the 50th anniversary. It is worth U.S. $ 3 million.

Trigger 25) Louis B. Mayer to get the film into production was nullifying the critical and commercial success of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

26) Five different directors and writers participated in 14 different pre-production stage.

27) Judy Garland won an Oscar in 1939 the Youth Award for her role, a gong that later would refer to the award Munchkin.

28) L Frank Baum received $ 75,000 for the rights of his book.

29) Standard Industrial painting, bought at a hardware store several blocks away from the studio, used to coat the bricks in the yellow brick road.

30) The often quoted line, “Fly my Pretties, Fly” is a bit false recall of dialogue – in effect, “Fly, Fly, Fly.”

31) The fire that envelops the hands of the witch as she is trying to eliminate the ruby slippers is really apple juice spitting in shoes – the film is then accelerated up to look more like fire.

32) The uniforms of the flying monkeys are consistent with those used by the guards of the castle of the Witch (or Winkies).

33) A little recovered from the film score Marie Antoinette (1938) can be heard during the film escape from the castle – the music of both films was composed by Herbert Stothart.

34) To show Dorothy’s house falling from the sky, a miniature house dropped into a painting of heaven on the stage floor, then invests the film to look like the movie fell into the camera.

35) Jack Haley tin woodsman suit was so stiff he had to rely on a table if you wanted a break.

36) The film is destined to be one of the most watched in the Western world, partly due to its strong presence in the TV programming.

37) The winged monkey’s head is called Nikko – also the name of the house of the Japanese people to the sanctuary to Hear No Evil See No Evil, Speak No Evil monkeys.

38) In 2007, the Munchkins received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Seven of them attended the ceremony: Mickey Carroll, Ruth Robinson L, Margaret Pellegrini, Meinhardt Raabe, Karl “Karchy” Kosiczky and August Clarence Swenson.

39) Baum came up with the name of Oz when viewed in their filing cabinets, organized AN and OZ.

40) Jack Haley regularly argued that making the film was far from pleasant. “Like hell it was, it was a job!” It was mean.

41) Judy Garland could not stop laughing while filming the scene where Dorothy hits the Cowardly Lion. So the director, Victor Fleming, took her aside and gave him a slap. He returned to the set and filmed the scene in one take.

42) The line “What makes the dawn come as a thunder? In the discourse of the Cowardly Lion on value is a reference to a line in Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling:” An ‘the dawn comes up like thunder outer Crost China Bay!

43) The tornado was half muslin 35 feet long, turned from the miniatures of a Kansas farm and fields in a dusty environment.

44) Lux Radio Theater broadcast a 60-minute CBS Radio adaptation of the film on Christmas Day 1950 with Judy Garland reprising his film role as Dorothy.

45) In 1985, Disney made a sequel called The Wizard of Oz Return to Oz. Since then it has become a cult classic.

46) The musical Wicked is based on the Witches of Oz. Basically it is 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 the West End of London in February 2011. The role of Dorothy was decided by the BBC talent show Over the Rainbow, which aired in the spring of 2010.

48) Four sets of shoes were used in the film, a pair of which was stolen from a museum in Minnesota in 2005. They were insured for $ 1 million.

49) The film won two Oscars for Best Original Score and Best Song and was nominated for best art direction, best cinematography and best effects.

50) A Cairn terrier named Terry played the dog Toto.

51) Lights and shadows of the camera equipment is visible on the lawn as Dorothy and the Scarecrow dance singing “We’re going to see the magician.”

52) Hamilton was hospitalized with severe burns after an explosion in a power failed soon as she disappears in a cloud of smoke.

53) In the final version of this scene is clearly visible Hamilton making out by a trap door.

54) In the original novel, the gift given to the Tin Man is not a clock at heart, but a stuffed satin heart was in the Woodman’s breast and then patched over with tin.

55) When he started as director George Cukor, Garland wore a blond wig and heavy, “baby-doll” makeup. Changed Cukor Judy Garland and Margaret Hamilton makeup and costumes and Garland instructed to act more naturally, which requires re-recordings wholescale.

56) Most of the actors on the set of five months he worked six days a week and had to go in the studio at four and five in the morning to be equipped with makeup and costumes. Then work until seven or eight in the evening.

57) The early Technicolor process requires an enormous amount of illumination, often set to heat over 100 degrees.

58) Jack Haley make aluminum paste the actor gave a serious eye infection.

makeup 59) Margaret Hamilton could not be eaten, so she lived almost exclusively on a liquid diet during filming.

60) One persistent rumor suggested one of the Munchkins can see that he committed suicide by hanging himself in the background of a scene. But it has been proven false: in fact it was a wild crane used in the forest scene.

61) When Margaret Hamilton returned from the hospital after his accident burns, refused to make the scene in which flies on a broom that waves of smoke, so that managers brought in standby mode at Betty Danko in place. Danko was badly wounded by the scene.

63) The New York premiere at the Loew’s Capitol Theater on August 17, 1939 was followed by a live performance by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Continue to perform there after each screening for a week, extended in case of Rooney for the second straight week and Garland to three.

64) The film was deemed “culturally significant” by the Library of Congress, which selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1989.

65) In June 2007, the film was listed in the Unesco Memory of the World Register.

66) Last year the San Francisco Chronicle film devotes a section front page of the film, in which Mick LaSalle said the film “complete sequence, since the arrival of Dorothy to Oz to his departure on the yellow brick road has to be one of the largest in the history of film – a masterpiece of set design, costumes, choreography, music, lyrics, storytelling and pure imagination. ”

67) A prequel to The Wizard of Oz is scheduled to be released in 2013. The working title is Oz: The Great and Powerful. Will be directed by Sam Raimi Spider-Man and is likely to star Robert Downey, Jr.

68) The linking of disco music of Pink Floyd 1973 The Dark Side of the Moon with the visual part of the film produces moments where the film and the album seems to fit together in a video and music experience. This juxtaposition is called Dark Side of the Rainbow.

69) The Observer Music Monthly soundtrack was voted the greatest movie of all time.

70) On the website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of critics give the film positive reviews.

71) The film is at number 10 in the BFI’s list of the 50 films you should see at the age of 14 years.