Texas. Patricia explained her late father’s role in the creation ofStar Trek: “He collaborated a fair amount with Roddenberry. He [Roddenberry] was really very good about trying to get things right, in spite of the fact that he had ...
and the others were dispersed when MGM auctioned them off in 1970. The Cowardly Lion head is at the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, and generous donors gave our museum the Scarecrow costume and Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers.
22 473 "Donnie Fatso" Moe Syzlak meets a flying monkey from The Wizard of Oz. 22 484 "Homer Scissorhands" In the Smithsonian Museum couch gag, Dorothy's ruby slippers are seen in the Smithsonian Museum. 23 490 "Replaceable You" The Smithsonian Museum couch gag is repeated this episode...
TheJudy Garland Museum,located in the house where she lived, says it has the world’s largest collection of Garland and Wizard of Oz memorabilia.
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...
This article presents a comprehensive materials characterization of a pair of Ruby Slippers used in the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz, which has been one of the most popular objects on exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) since it entered the collection in...