Several little people met their husbands and wives while making the film, and others formed lasting friendships. Torelli, in an altercation. Nobody involved in the production seems to have questioned the Jim Crow strictures of Munchkinland. At twenty-five, he is trim, suspendered, and preternaturally grave, with a perfect Harvey Comics nose.
M-G-M wound up hiring amateurs and shunting them to the rear of the soundstage, where nobody could see them bungling the choreography. For Margaret Pellegrini, colloquially known as Popcorn, the experience was heaven-sent. Perhaps this is why a number of dwarfs resorted to posing as ex-Munchkins and, later, as ex-Oompa Loompas. In , the Reno hairdresser Ezzy Dame went on a mea-culpa press tour after his thirty-year Oompa Loompa scam was exposed.
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When a deal for her services could not be struck, MGM turned to one of its contract players, Judy Garland, who proved to be the perfect Dorothy! We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage. They got smashed every night and the police would pick them up in butterfly nets. The curse cast upon it tragically caused him to eventually turn into the Tin Woodman when he hacked all his own limbs off one by one, replacing the parts that were amputated with a hollow tin one, until he was all made of tin from his head to his feet.
It frequently came under fire in later decades. In , the director of Detroit's libraries banned The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for having "no value" for children of today , for supporting "negativism", and for bringing children's minds to a "cowardly level".
In The Wizard of Oz, characters like Glinda the Good Witch represent the mother archetype because she looks out for Dorothy, and Toto represent the trickster , because he is always creating problems.
The shadow is another archetype included in Jung's theory. In the story, the flying monkeys symbolize the shadow figure. At the time, tensions between white settlers and Native Americans were running high.
Baum used this forum to comment on political and social events, including the conflict with the Sioux Indians. For the most part, the monkeys were not played by the same small actors as the Munchkins. Only a few of the more athletic midgets were asked to don the monkey make-up and costumes fitted with battery-powered wings. Were dwarfs used in the wizard of oz?
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