21 Wonderful Facts About “The Wizard of Oz”

 Cory Mahoney and Hollywood.com  have posted 21 Wonderful Facts About The Wizard of Oz.  There are some new [at least to me] facts and here are three of my favorites…

1. The snow the wakes Dorothy up from the poppy field was 100% asbestos. 

Even though the health hazards had been known for years. [Hey – that is not a wonderful fact! – Craig]

4. And that horse [the horse of a different color see in Oz] originally had a much larger part in the film. The horse, which was originally a striped with different colors and could speak, joined the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion, along with the Wizard, to save Dorothy from the Witch.

6. Because Margaret Hamilton’s performance as the Wicked Witch of the West was so frightening, many of her scenes were trimmed or deleted entirely. 

They were thought to be too frightening.