billie burke played the glinda the good witch in the original wizard of oz musical film from 1939.
billie burke played the glinda the good witch in the original wizard of oz musical film from 1939.
who played the glinda the good witch in the original wizard of oz musical film from 1939?
billie burke
in the classic 1939 mgm movie "the wizard of oz", the good witch of the north is called glinda, which is the name of the good witch of the south in the oz novels. in the movie, glinda the good witch of the north, portrayed by billie burke, is only slightly matronly and quite beautiful, and in addition to meeting dorothy on her arrival in oz, she also supervises her progress on her journey to the wizard and helps her find her way back to kansas at the end of the story. she wears a coral pink ball gown with a matching crown and carries a long magic wand with a glittering star on the tip. although the existence of a "good witch of the south" is implied by the cardinal point names of glinda and the other two witches, the film makes no direct reference to such a character.
good witch of the north
glinda appears in the second half of season three of "once upon a time" played by sunny mabrey. in a sisterhood of witches, glinda, the witch of the south, along with the witch of the east (sharon taylor) and the witch of the north (karen holness), protect oz with each of their magic affinities. only the fourth seat of the sisterhood—representing innocence—remains empty, but through glinda's guardianship of the book of records, a prophecy foretells of a sorceress coming to oz via a cyclone to join them. secondly, the book also states this witch will "unseat the greatest evil the realm has ever seen". after seeing zelena (rebecca mader) punish the deceitful walsh/wizard of oz (christopher gorham), glinda believes this woman, who arrived to oz many years ago from a cyclone, will fulfill the prophecy. though zelena is more interested in changing her past, glinda convinces the unsure redhead that her destiny lies in changing her own future by becoming a good witch, however, she does not tell zelena about the second part of the prophecy. from joining the sisterhood, she gifts zelena a pendant to harness her powers. while showing zelena the western area of oz, they approach wreckage from a cyclone and take in a girl, dorothy gale (matreya scarrwener). zelena, from reading the book of records, believes dorothy will become the witch of the west and defeat her. glinda doesn't believe this to be true, but she witnesses zelena attack dorothy, who causes her assailant to melt with water. realizing the prophecy was right, glinda offers dorothy a place with the sisterhood, but the latter wishes to go home. with zelena defeated, the wizard reverts to his old self and thus glinda helps her to return home with his assistance. only after, zelena reveals she masqueraded as the wizard to get rid of dorothy. glinda vows to find another sorceress to fulfill the prophecy, but zelena banishes her to the enchanted forest. in this new realm, she begins living in the north of woods, south of rumpelstiltskin's (robert carlyle) castle, hidden in a pocket dimension of ice and snow, which only the pure of heart may enter through.
glinda the good witch