12/18/2023 0 Comments Tin man wizard of oz![]() Making movies was relatively new, and special effects even newer. The Monkeys crashed to the ground, suffering injuries (unsurprisingly). What really held them aloft were wires-which broke during the scene. Those scary Winged Monkeys that do the bidding of the Wicked Witch: they appear to go flying through the sky in one scene. The smoke mechanism malfunctioned, and Danko was severely injured.Īnd speaking of malfunctions: There was yet another accident that harmed the actors during filming. Poor Danko: as with the Tin Man, the second actor got hurt anyway. MGM agreed to have another actress, Betty Danko, do this flying. The third-degree burns kept her out of filming for three months.Īfter this experience, she refused to do her other smoky scene, where the broomstick she flies on is billowing smoke. The trick was that she was being lowered below the stage as the fire dramatically ignited.īut one time the trick didn’t work: she wasn’t lowered quickly enough, and the green copper-based paint on her face and hands caught fire. You’ll remember that she exits Munchkinland in a burst of flames. The Wicked Witch: Of course, I don’t feel sorry for the character, but I do for actress Margaret Hamilton. But the paste gave Haley an eye infection that required surgery.Īnd speaking of face makeup: All of it was toxic, so the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion and the Wicked Witch, along with the Tin Man, couldn’t eat at all while wearing it and could drink only through straws. At least MGM changed the composition of his face makeup: the aluminum powder was turned into a paste, to avoid the danger of inhaling it. Jack Haley was then cast as the Tin Man, without anyone telling him what had happened to Ebsen. After only ten days of filming, inhaling this powder caused Ebsen to have a severe reaction as the dust entered his lungs. To create his “tin” face, an aluminum powder makeup was invented. The Tin Man: The actor originally cast for this part was Buddy Ebsen. The famous blue-and-white gingham dress was chosen to make her look younger, but she was forced to wear a tight corset under it to hide her developed figure. Managers put her on a strict diet and gave her tobacco to suppress her appetite. When it came to the filming of Oz, Garland was a sixteen-year-old who had to look as if she were ten. Because her calories were so restricted-executives would go so far as to remove a plateful of food when she was about to eat it-she was permanently hungry.” When she was fourteen, filming her first feature movie, “MGM told her she looked like a ‘fat little pig with pigtails’ on screen and she was put on her first of many diets. But there were even more horrors than she’d mentioned.ĭorothy: Producers’ tormenting Judy Garland over her weight began before the Oz filming. But that wasn’t the worst of it.Īfter watching, I searched online for articles about whether the filming harmed the actors. And the green Wicked Witch of the West still scared me, as she always has. But, as always, I was uncomfortable with the Munchkins being played by hundreds of midgets. ![]() In many ways, it was of course wonderful. Plus it was free on Amazon Prime: so easy to watch! So I did. After all, it’s a classic, said to be one of most popular films of all time, and I hadn’t seen it for over a decade. We watched The Big Sick instead-which does have a major illness, but doesn’t pretend not to.Ī few days after Phoebe left, I found that I did still want to watch The Wizard of Oz. The aluminum paste they put on his face to look like tin made him sick.”Īll this was news to me, but I wasn’t surprised when Phoebe added, “I don’t think I can watch that movie ever again, knowing all this.” ![]() “They made her eat almost nothing to get thinner, and they gave her pills that led to her becoming addicted. “The producer did bad things to Judy Garland,” she said. “What about The Wizard of Oz ? I think it was the first movie we watched together here, when you were about five,” I suggested at dinner. On these visits, we always choose a movie for evening viewing. My teenage granddaughter Phoebe was visiting us from out of town.
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