Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Stage and Screen to 1939, Oz scholar Mark Evan Swartz concludes that Daniels, who was eight or nine years old at the time of filming, played Dorothy, and that Bosworth and Leonard likely played the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, respectively. The cast list does not indicate which characters each credited actor portrayed. The credits to the film list Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer, Robert Leonard, Bebe Daniels, Winifred Greenwood, Lillian Leighton and Olive Cox as the performers, and Otis Turner as director.
The citizens dance, and the Scarecrow reads a note that says the Wizard has declared him king, as the Wizard and Dorothy leave in a balloon.
Dorothy and her friends arrive at the Emerald City. Dorothy throws water on the Witch Momba, killing her and allowing the gang to rescue the animals. The Witch kidnaps and imprisons the children. Dorothy then encounters the Cowardly Lion, and they encounter the Rusty Woodman and oil his joints. As Dorothy plays with Toto, the good Witch Glinda (Olive Cox) changes Toto into a real protector.
Dorothy and Toto, Hank, Imogene, and the Scarecrow are all swept to the Land of Oz, where soldiers get scared away by the Witch Momba (Winifred Greenwood), who attacks the Wizard of Oz (Hobart Bosworth) due to his threat to her reign. They realize a cyclone is approaching, so they all hide in a haystack. Dorothy runs to the cornfield and discovers that the family Scarecrow (Robert Leonard) is alive. It was partly based on the 1902 stage musical The Wizard of Oz, though much of the film deals with the Wicked Witch of the West, who does not appear in the musical.ĭorothy Gale (Bebe Daniels) and Imogene the Cow are chased by Hank the Mule. It was created to fulfill a contractual obligation associated with Baum's personal bankruptcy caused by The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, from which it was once thought to have been derived. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, made by the Selig Polyscope Company without Baum's direct input. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1910 American silent fantasy film and the earliest surviving film version of L.
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