The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) Walshe, and Clara Blandick, Terry (billed as Toto), and Singer's Midgets as the Munchkins. Legendary for its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score and memorable characters, the film has become an icon of American popular culture. It was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but lost to "Gone with the Wind". It did win in two other categories: Best Original Song for "Over the Rainbow" and Best Original Score by Herbert Stothart. While the film was considered a critical success upon release in August 1939, it failed to make a profit for MGM until the 1949 re-release,
Terry Kay Terry Kay Terry Kay, born 10 February 1938, in Royston, Georgia, is a novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is "To Dance with the White Dog", which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Kay's novel "The Valley of Light" won the 2004 Townsend Prize for Fiction. He won the 1981 Georgia Author of the Year Award for "After Eli", and the Southeastern Library Association named him Outstanding Author of the Year in 1991 for "To Dance with the White Dog". He won a Southern Emmy Award in 1990 for his