ray bolger played the scarecrow in the wizzard of oz.
ray bolger played the scarecrow in the wizzard of oz.
who played the scarecrow in the wizzard of oz?
ray bolger
the scarecrow first appears in "the wonderful wizard of oz", when he joins dorothy to go to the wizard in search of brains. when the wizard leaves oz, he makes the scarecrow ruler, a position he holds until the middle of the second book. later, he moves to a corn-shaped house in the winkie country. the scarecrow appears in many of the later books, including "the scarecrow of oz" (where he is the title character) and "the royal book of oz" (where he researches his ancestry). he was played by ray bolger in the 1939 movie. that actor also played the scarecrow's kansan counterpart, hunk, who was one of aunt em and uncle henry's three farmworkers.
list of oz characters (created by baum)
"son of a witch" elaborates significantly on the history of oz as established in baum's books, but in a way very different from its predecessor. the second oz novel by baum, "the marvelous land of oz", recounts the dethronement of the ruler of oz, the scarecrow, by general jinjur and her all-female army, and reveals that the boy tip is in actuality the enchanted princess ozma, the rightful ruler of oz. the only connection "son of a witch" has to the established oz history is that the scarecrow (although not dorothy's scarecrow) briefly rules oz as a puppet (or 'straw man') of a cabal of bankers, and that liir, on one of his journeys, crosses paths with tip. despite this, "son of a witch" does not explicitly contradict the official history, but instead recounts history that has been left out of the official history. since the scarecrow that becomes the ruler of oz is not dorothy's scarecrow and since, when liir meets tip and mombi, they are driving home a newly acquired four-horned cow (which is mentioned at the opening of "the marvelous land of oz" as mombi's "especial pride"), it is likely that "son of a witch" takes place between "the wonderful wizard of oz" and "the marvelous land of oz". "out of oz", the fourth and final volume in "the wicked years", includes elements from "the marvelous land of oz" and depicts an somewhat altered version of the events of that story.
son of a witch