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The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM -- and the Miracle of Production
The Making of the Wizard of Oz Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM and the Miracle of Production Author:Aljean Harmetz The Making of the Wizard Of Oz, written by film historian Aljean Harmetz, is a book about the production of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. It was the second book published documenting the making of this film, released a year after Doug McClelland's 1976 work Down the Yellow Brick Road. — The book was published in Nove... more »mber 1977, after the film had been telecast a total of nineteen times. With 93 photos, the book tells readers how the film was made and describes the Golden Era of moviemaking in the 1930s and 1940s at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The book took two years to be created. Aljean Harmetz researched the film and the studio and interviewed the surviving cast, crew and MGM staff. From the acquisition of the music to the scripts, casting, and filming, Harmetz's book provides readers with a detailed re-creation of how the studio produced this film.« less