Which film starring Judy Garland was based on a novel by L Frank Baum?
Judy Garland recording careers, awards, critical praise, and her ability to fill concert halls worldwide, and she required constant reassurance she was talented and attractive. Rooney, however, denied their childhood studio was responsible for her addiction: "Judy Garland was never given any drugs by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Mr. Mayer didn't sanction anything for Judy. No one on that lot was responsible for Judy Garland's death. Unfortunately, Judy chose that path." In 1938, she was cast in her most memorable role, as the young Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), a film based on the 1900 children's book by L. Frank Baum. In
Plays of L. Frank Baum bankrolling his son's acting career. Never much for his first name, Lyman Frank Baum, who had been known as "Frank" for most of his childhood, chose the new pen name "Louis F. Baum." Most of these plays are known only from their copyrights. "The Maid of Arran", based on a novel by William Black, went on a very successful tour with Baum in the lead. While most of Baum's later musical theatre works featured music by other composers, Baum himself composed the music for this piece, which is apparently the only musical of the group. "Matches", a drawing room comedy,