![]() ![]() Mayer to become a full-fledged producer, and the ambitious Freed decided to build a movie around an upcoming star, the then-fifteen-year-old Judy Garland. ![]() For nearly a decade, he and songwriting partner Nacio Herb Brown had contributed musical numbers to MGM’s song-and-dance motion pictures their hits included “Singing in the Rain,” “You Are My Lucky Star,” “All I Do is Dream of You,” “You Were Meant for Me,” and “Broadway Rhythm.” In autumn 1937, however, Freed got the go-ahead from Metro chieftain Louis B. In keeping with that theme, and in the hope that additional information along those same lines will also please, here’s a look-back at Metro’s very FIRST choice to play The Wicked Witch of the West (and eventually Miss Gulch) during the first six months of 1938.Īs has been noted in the accurate histories about the making of OZ, its production was the brainchild of the studio’s long-time lyricist, Arthur Freed. Last month’s blog (“REVISITING SOME OF THE ‘MISSING’ OZ”/January 19, 2018) proved to be one of the most popular in this series, as it recapped moments that were filmed and cut from - or scripted and never filmed for - MGM’s classic 1939 musical, THE WIZARD OF OZ. ![]()
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