You might have noticed that I lamented that Warner Brothers was not really doing anything to take advantage of the 85th anniversary of MGM...

 So, over in the UK, MGM's musical film The Wizard of Oz is getting reissued to theaters. As a part of the process of reissuing the fil...

This is a feature article I wrote for the Winter 2014 issue of The Baum Bugle discussing the differences between L. Frank Baum's The W...

Preorders for a 4K edition of MGM's The Wizard of Oz are now available, dated for October 29, 2019. The movie will have the distincti...

Well, the 80th anniversary of the premiere of MGM's The Wizard of Oz is today. Looking back over my blogs about Oz vinyl records, I not...

OzCon International is just a few months away, held on July 26-28 at the Kellogg West Conference Center. This is certainly a BIG one: Cele...

Happy New Year everybody! Sorry for the lack of posts lately from all of us (and for those of you who don't like keep hearing "ha...

Of all the existing costumes and props used in MGM's The Wizard of Oz —which will have its 80th anniversary next year—the most iconic ...

I had planned that at OzCon this year, we would follow a panel with Barry Bregman and Christianna Rickard reflecting on their relatives in...

Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage production of the MGM Wizard of Oz finally made its debut in Australia at the beginning of 2018 (Capitol ...

One regular piece of trivia about MGM's film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz is that Shirley Temple was considered for the role of Dorot...

In the filming of MGM's The Wizard of Oz , several pairs of Ruby Slippers were created for the film. They weren't the Silver Shoes B...

I was one of the lucky people to watch this tele-movie when it first aired on TV and I would rent the video whenever I could (it had a nice ...

As a bonus episode, The Royal Podcast of Oz presents this old time radio production. Maxwell House's Good News would feature actors fro...

There is one book consistently referred to by fans of the MGM film: Aljean Harmetz's The Making of the Wizard of Oz . Aljean managed t...

The world of Oz was changed forever exactly seventy five years ago as MGM's The Wizard of Oz had its world premiere at Grauman's ...

And the celebration of the 75th anniversary of MGM's The Wizard of Oz has brought another book from Jay Scarfone and William Stillma...

The wonderful thing about films is that so much work goes into them from so many angles. Often we focus on the script, the directing, the ...