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Dorothy: There's no place like home.

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When Dorothy is knocked unconscious there is a brown pillowcase on her bed. Several shots later when she wakes up it's white. See more...

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The Director - Victor Fleming, was working on "Gone With The Wind" at the same time. See more...

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The Wizard of Oz (1939) - 7 questions

Directed by Victor Fleming, starring Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, Frank Morgan, Jack Haley, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Ray Bolger (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical

The "questions" section is for any random questions that occurred to you while watching this film, or anything you didn't entirely understand, and which Google or the IMDb can't help with. Submit them as a question, and hopefully someone will answer (the bold comments in brackets) - check back regularly. If the answer is wrong, or missing information, please use the "clarify answer" option. Don't feel limited - want to know what music played in a certain scene? Whether this was the first film to use a certain effect? Here's the place to ask!

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Entry In one of the previous questions answered, it mentioned the ending originally panned down to show the Ruby Slippers near Dorothy's bed and thus confirming she didn't dream the whole story. I was just wondering if there's a youtube link or movie clip of this scene? [Actually, all of the information points that the scene never existed. The movie deals with Oz as being an escape, a dream land. The book deals with Oz being a real place visited by Dorothy. Finding the shoes under the bed sounds like something from the book, but it isn't there either. The slippers are lost forever in the book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_%281939_film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_book_to_film_comparison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz]
Entry Does anyone know what Dorothy's last name was? As far as I know I haven't seen it mentioned in the movie. [It's 'Gale', and it is mentioned in the movie when Dorothy tells the Good Witch 'I'm Dorothy Gale, from Kansas'.]
Entry During the scene in the Poppy field, does the Scarecrow fall asleep or is it just Dorothy and the Lion? [Dorothy, Toto, and the Lion all fall asleep. The Tin Man and the Scarecrow cry out for help, and Glinda makes it snow. The Tin Man rusts, making the Scarecrow the only one who suffers no side effects from the poppy field.]
Entry According to imdb.com, the woman who provided Snow White's voice in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs also provides the voice for a character named Juliet in this film. Does anyone know who this is supposed to be? [In the film, when we hear a female voice ask, "Where for art thou Romeo?" it is in fact Juliet that asks that question - as in "Romeo and Juliet".]
Entry When Dorothy is in Munchkinland and she starts off on the Yellow Brick Road, it spirals around with a Red Brick Road before splitting off toward the Emerald City. Where does the Red Brick Road lead to? [The Sapphire City.]
Entry Could someone tell me more about the scene in which a person is rumoured to be hanging themselves? I know its not true and all. I'm just curious about it. [According to snopes.com it's an emu or a crane that is flapping its wings in the background. Check it out here: http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozsuicid.htm]
Entry At the very end of the movie after Dorothy says "Oh, Auntie Em, there's no place like home," normally, it fades out to the credits, but once - and only once - when I was very young, I thought I remembered seeing the camera pan away from her face and down to the foot of the bed where you see the ruby slippers tucked underneath the bed, then a fade to the credits. It is obviously a black-and-white shot, but there were the glittering shoes. Has anyone else seen this version of the ending? [Yes. I'm sure I've seen that version. It shows that Dorothy didn't just dream about Oz and makes for a more satisfying conclusion. This version was original but edited out because it didn't follow the book's storyline for "Return to Oz" and the other long series of Oz books. The sequel pertains that she loses the slippers in transit back to her home and falls to the gnome king who destroys Oz which in turn causes Dorothy to return. So seeing the slippers at the end of the bed, while more satisfying, wouldn't really stay true to the Oz series.]

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