Posted on 05/14/2008 5:53:55 PM PDT by Old Sarge
WOW! what a beautiful good morning graphic!
I’m so glad to hear you are safe too!
(((HUGS)))
LOL
Didn’t work, did it?
8-(
;o)
*HUGS*
LOL
I know what you mean.
Thank you, beachy..There have been damaging storms all around my area but none so far here..I am very grateful..
Just the noise from hail that size might cause me to have heart problems..WOW!..and terrible!
Uh..It’s all in the timing! LOL
free dixie SMOOCH,sw
Hiya sugar
Man, you are something. AWESOME!
Woo hoo the Starship Enterprise......going where no man has gone before.......
GM, sug
ready for the next round?
SMOOCH back atcha
Good morning, Canteeners, Cubies, Newbies & Troops! Kind of hectic day at work, but wanted to make sure to get my hello in to you all. Enjoy the day!
Producer Mervyn LeRoy had originally intended to use MGM's Leo the Lion in the role of the Cowardley Lion and dub an actors voice in for the dialog. However, that idea was dropped when Bert Lahr's came up for consideration for the part.
Hiya hon
(((((BIG THURSDAY HUG))))))
MGM had originally planned to incorporate a "stencil printing" process when Dorothy runs to open the farmhouse door before the film switches to Technicolor; each frame was to be hand-tinted to keep the inside of the door in sepia tone. This process--cumbersome, expensive, and ineffective--was abandoned in favor of a simpler and more clever alternative (a variation of this process was used, however, in 1939 release prints of The Women (1939)). The inside of the farmhouse was painted sepia, and the Dorothy who opens the door from the inside is not Judy Garland but her stand-in wearing a sepia-rinsed version of the famous gingham dress. Once the door is opened and the camera advances through it, Garland (wearing her bright blue dress) walks through the door and the audience is none the wiser. This effect does not work on older video/TV prints where the Kansas scenes appear in true black and white, as the changeover to color is all too apparent. With the Kansas scenes returned to their original sepia tints, however, they closely match the magical opening door and the effect is powerful.
While Buddy Ebsen had been taken off the project from his allergic reaction to the Tin Man's makeup, his vocals remain whenever the song "We're off to see the Wizard" is played. Jack Haley's vocals were never used during the song, but were used for "If I only had a Heart" and "If I only had the Nerve." Ebsen's vocals can also be heard in the soundtrack for the extended version of "If I were King of the Forest," though the spoken segment has Jack Haley.
The movie's line "Toto, I have a feeling we're no longer in Kansas anymore." was voted as the #62 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
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