Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz is a 1987 direct-to-video animated short film introduced by Michael Gross of "Family Ties". It is based on "Ozma of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. On an ocean voyage bound for Australia with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale and Toto are swept overboard in a storm. Dorothy manages to climb in with a hen who had also fallen into the sea. Next morning, Dorothy finds the hen, whose name is Billina, had laid an egg and can talk. Upon this discovery, Dorothy finds that they are in
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) it left the stage and an unsuccessful motion picture made in 1978, starring Diana Ross as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow. In 1985, Walt Disney Productions released the live-action fantasy film "Return to Oz", which starred (and introduced) Fairuza Balk as a young Dorothy Gale. Based loosely on "The Marvelous Land of Oz" (1904) and "Ozma of Oz" (1907), it fared rather poorly with critics who were unfamiliar with the "Oz" books and was not successful at the box office, although it has since become a popular cult film, with many considering it a more loyal and faithful