no, I'm not some homo Judy Garland freak, it's just stuff I've heard over the years. I went into the theater to see what it looked like, and all the backgrounds looked like something out of a high school play. A few years ago, I was a projectionist, and we showed it. The Wizard Of Oz, is better on TV, (and no, not HDTV) than it is in the movies. When she wakes up again, in Kansas, it goes back to black and white. The first part was shot in black and white, to portray the bleakness of Kansas, but when she opened the door after the house landed, audiences let out an audible gasp, because it was the first time most of them had ever seen a movie in color. It had the best special FX to date, color, and was (I may be wrong) only the second mainstream movie to ever be shot in color. Shirley Temple was the casting director's first choice to play the part of Dorothy, but her mom was asking for too much money, so Temple went on to make some over produced piece of crap that nobody even remembers, and her career plummeted, while Garland's career skyrocketed. There was a "Jitter Bug" musical number that never saw the light of day, because they felt the jitter bug, was just a trend, and would make the movie dated, and they also didn't want the movie to be considered as a musical. They came very close to cutting "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" out, because they felt it slowed the movie down to much. They had to strap Judy Garland's boobs down, because they made her look too old for the part, and stuck stuff up her nose to make it point up a little bit. There were even a couple of movies made addressing it, one being "Under The Rainbow"(1981) with Chevy Chase. According to several cast interviews, the Munchkins were mostly all drunk the entire time, and knowing that, only makes their scenes better for me.
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