![]() It is 70 years since The Wizard Of Oz was made and almost no one from the production survives. Dorothy, on the other hand, was a "well grown child for her age" – although not, perhaps, as well grown as her MGM incarnation who, generations on, still reigns as a symbol of hope in hard times. There was no Miss Gulch in L Frank Baum's book and the Witch of the North, who travelled mysteriously but not by pink bubble, was an old lady the size of a Munchkin. As in the film, it was Dorothy's "little black dog" Toto who kept her out in the storm, and together they were whisked to Oz, a place she had longed to discover but on discovering was instantly feverish to leave. ![]() In the book on which the 1939 film The Wizard Of Oz was based, Dorothy lived in a one-room shack on the Kansas prairie with her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em, a defeated pair who "did not know what joy was".
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