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"Fantastic.". --Gore Vidal, New York Review of Books on previous edition "Grand.". --Rex Reed, New York Daily News on previous edition "There has been a lot written about the making of this remarkable film, but this must stand as the most exhaustive and well-researched to date.An entertaining and fact-filled book.".

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Released in conjunction with the 75th-anniversary DVD release of The Wizard of Oz , this book is the definitive story of how one of America's most beloved movies was made and a marvelous, unprecedented examination of how Hollywood used to make movies. This updated edition includes numerous photos and shares hundreds of interviews with cameramen, screenwriters, costume designers, directors, producers, light technicians, actors, and more to reveal how the factory-like Hollywood system of moviemaking miraculously produced one of the most enduring films ever made. From the scandalous headlines of Munchkin orgies at the Culver City Hotel and the Witch's (accidental) burning to the building of the Emerald City and the sewing of nearly 1,000 costumes, The Making of The Wizard of Oz provides a richly detailed re-creation of MGM's production No. 1060 and a detail-by-detail, department-by-department look at the most powerful and flamboyant studio Hollywood has ever kwn. From the ten scriptwriters at work to the scandal headlines of Munchkin orgies at the Culver City Hotel to the Witch's (accidental) burning, here is the real story of the making of The Wizard of Oz. This richly detailed re-creation brings alive a major Hollywood studio and reveals, through hundreds of interviews (with cameramen, screenwriters, costume designers, directors, producers, light technicians, and actors), how the factory-like Hollywood system of moviemaking miraculously produced one of the most enduring and best-loved films ever made. We watch it happen--the bright, idiosyncratic, wildly devoted MGM-ers inventing the lines, the songs; flying hordes of monkeys through the sky; growing a poppy field; building the Emerald City (and 60 other sets); designing and sewing the nearly 1,000 costumes; enduring the pressures from the front office; choosing the actors. Here is Oz, a marvelous, unprecedented experience of studio life as it was lived day by day, detail by detail, department by department, at the most powerful and flamboyant studio Hollywood has ever kwn--at its moment of greatest power.

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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
ISBN-10
1613748329
ISBN-13
9781613748329
eBay Product ID (ePID)
190016688

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Author
Aljean Harmetz
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Film, TV & Radio

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Place of Publication
Chicago
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations, Colour Plates
Author Biography
Aljean Harmetz is the author of The Making of Casablanca, On the Road to Tara: The Making of Gone with the Wind,Rolling Breaks and Other Movie Business, and a novel, Off the Face of the Earth. She lives in Los Angeles. Margaret Hamilton was an actress best known for her portrayal of the malevolent Miss Almira Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Aljean Harmetz is the author of The Making of Casablanca,On the Road to Tara: The Making of Gone with the Wind, Rolling Breaks and Other Movie Business, and a novel, Off the Face of the Earth. She spent twelve years as the Hollywood and West Coast cultural reporter at the New York Times.
Foreword by
Margaret Hamilton
Date of Publication
01/10/2013
Country of Publication
United States

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The book was well worth getting and entertaining and full of interesting facts.
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