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10 December 1990 (USA) morePlot:
The film is the biography of Frank Baum, the children's book author and creator of the fantasy world Oz. | add synopsisAwards:
2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(4 articles)
The Wizard Of Oz 70th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review (From Collider.com. 15 October 2009, 2:29 PM, PDT)
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Ritter | ... | L. Frank Baum | |
| Annette O'Toole | ... | Maud Gage Baum | |
| Rue McClanahan | ... | Matilda Electra Joslyn Gage | |
| Charles Haid | ... | Al Badham / Cowardly Lion | |
| David Schramm | ... | W.W. Denslow | |
| Nancy Lenehan | ... | Harriet Alvena Baum Neal | |
| Courtney Barilla | ... | Dorothy Leslie Gage / Dorothy Gale | |
| Nancy Morgan | ... | Helen Leslie Gage Gage | |
| Pat Skipper | ... | Charlie H. Gage | |
| Ed Gale | ... | Ned Brown / Farmer | |
| Tim Eyster | ... | Frank Joslyn Baum (5-9 years) | |
| Joshua Boyd | ... | Frank Joslyn Baum (3 years) | |
| Roger Steffens | ... | Salesman | |
| John Cameron Mitchell | ... | Albert the Reporter | |
| Frank Hamilton | ... | Sullivan |
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1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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The film depicts Baum acting on the stage when his father's theatre burned down. In reality, the theatre burned down during a production of his drawing room comedy, "Matches", while Baum was on tour as the male lead in another of his plays, "The Maid of Arran", and hence did not actually witness the fire. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: L. Frank Baum's niece Dorothy Gage who was the inspiration for the Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz died at 5 months of age. moreSoundtrack:
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I remember this movie every time The Wizard of OZ is mentioned and was surprised to discover I was only six years old the one and only time I saw it. It is very clear in my mind still which is clearly a comment on the quality of the film. All of the performances were wonderful but I have one negative comment to make. I recently researched Dorothy Gage and discovered she died at only 5 months old, and although her name is the basis of Dorothy Gale's, the story was always meant to feature a girl not a little boy as the movie depicted.
The movie had the viewer believe that Baum had a strong attachment to a child when really Dorothy was an infant who his wife adored.
Even though the film is inaccurate the story is wonderful on it's own and I would recommend it to anyone as a partly non-fiction, partly fiction film.