The iconic ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in the film "The Wizard of Oz" have been recovered. Thirteen years after they were stolen, Grand Rapids Police Department in Minnesota and the FBI announced Tuesday the slippers – one of at least three existing pai...
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. —The man convicted of stealing the iconic ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" was sentenced Monday. Stealing the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz" was "one last score" for aging reformed mobster Terry Jon Martin,his attorneys said in a cour...
Local legend has it that Oz, also known as the Emerald City, was inspired by a prominent castle-like building in the community of Castle Park near Holland, Michigan, where Baum lived during the summer. The yellow brick road was derived from a road at that time paved by yellow bricks, lo...
(CNN)–US authorities have charged a man in connection with the theft of a pair of ruby red slippers worn by actressJudy Garlandas Dorothy in the 1939 classic movieThe Wizard of Oznearly 20 years after they were stolen from a museum in Minnesota. On Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted...
of the ruby slippers and had never seen “The Wizard of Oz.” Instead, DeKrey said, the “old Terry” with a lifelong history involving burglary and receiving stolen property beat out the “new Terry” who had become “a contributing member of soc...
This year’s event will be held from Oct. 4-5. Tickets go on sale in July and there are guided tours of Oz taking place every Friday in June. Judy Garland Museum,Grand Rapids, Minnesota, United States Much more than a museum, the late-19th-century white-clapboard home that houses the...
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota hometown of Judy Garland, the actress who wore a pair of ruby slippers in “The Wizard of Oz,” is raising money to purchase the prized footwear after it was stolen from a local museum and then later turne...
And yet, the iconic ruby red sparkly kitten heels worn by the late actress inWizard of Oz(1939) are no longer at the late actress’museum inGrand Rapids, Minnesota. Indeed, after the slippers were stolen from the tourist destination in 2005, and later recover...
Dorothy Gale’s ruby red slippers from Victor Fleming’s 1939 classic The Wizard Of Oz are arguably one of the most famous movie props of all time, which is fascinating considering that for a number of years the shoes were practically forgotten about.
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A dying thief who confessed to stealing a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz” because he wanted to