The moral of the story-"that with the help of a few good friends, you can find all that you need within yourself"-resonated with American audiences for many years from 1956 onwards the televised movie held American children-pre-video age-rapt with attention.īaum was a prolific writer, who in addition to children's books, wrote plays, short stories, and fantasy under various pseudonyms, was coaxed into writing sequel after sequel to his Wonderful Wizard of Oz book by the incessant pleas of his youthful fans.
Part fairy tale, part fable, it featured Dorothy, as the girl who leaves Kansas in a tornado, her beloved dog, Toto, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Scarecrow, and a story line uniquely American in its background and setting. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900, and produced for stage in 1902, was immortalized through the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland, and soon become an iconic part of American culture. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz.
Lyman Frank Baum (– May 6, 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W.W. Author, Newspaper Editor, Actor, Screenwriter, Film Producer
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