joan fontaine played dorothy gale in the 1939 movie.
joan fontaine played dorothy gale in the 1939 movie.
who played dorothy gale in the 1939 movie?
joan fontaine
in the 1939 movie "the wizard of oz", dorothy was played by judy garland, who received an academy juvenile award for her performance. since she was sixteen years old at the time of filming, garland's maturing figure was bound into a figure-hiding corset. since fantasy films generally were unsuccessful at that time, metro-goldwyn-mayer portrayed oz as a head-trauma-induced delirium, instead of a real place. it is implied that oz is merely dorothy's dream since she awakens in bed at the end, though dorothy is convinced that her journey was all in fact real.
dorothy gale
the show premiered at the chicago grand opera house on june 16, 1902 and later moved to the majestic theatre on broadway on january 21, 1903, where it ran for 293 performances until december 31, 1904, followed by traveling tours of the original cast. it starred anna laughlin as dorothy gale, fred stone as the scarecrow, and david c. montgomery as the tin woodman (who is called niccolo chopper in the musical; he had no name in the original book, but would be called nick chopper in the sequels). arthur hill played the cowardly lion, but in this version his role was reduced to a bit part. the wicked witch of the west is mentioned but does not appear in this version, and toto is replaced by a cow named imogene. an element from the show – the snowfall caused by the good witch of the north, which defeats the spell of the poppies that had put dorothy and the cowardly lion to sleep – was later used in the classic 1939 movie. other new characters in the piece are king pastoria ii and his girlfriend, trixie tryfle (a waitress), cynthia cynch (a lady lunatic), sir dashemoff daily (the poet laureate), sir wiley gyle, and general riskitt. dorothy gale's surname was introduced in this version. it was not mentioned in the original novel, though it is mentioned in "ozma of oz" (1907).
the wizard of oz (1902 musical)