The Making of The Wizard of Oz

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The Making of The Wizard of Oz
Author	Aljean Harmetz
Language	English
Publisher	Hyperion
Publication date	Dec 2, 1998 (60th anniversary edition)
Media type	Paperback
Pages	368
ISBN	ISBN 0-7868-8352-9

The Making of the Wizard Of Oz, written by film historian Aljean Harmetz, is a book about the production of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

It was published in November 1977. With 93 photos, the book tells readers how the film was made and describes the Golden Era of moviemaking in the 1930s and '40s at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The book took two years to be created. Aljean Harmetz researched the film and the studio and interviewed the surviving cast, crew and MGM staff.

From the acquisition of the music to the scripts, casting, and filming, Harmetz's book provides readers with a detailed re-creation of how the studio produced this film.

It was reissued in paperback in 1984, then for the fiftieth anniversary in 1989, and finally with a new preface by the author in 1998.

After the success of the book, Aljean Harmetz adapted her knowledge and contacts with the film's survivors into a 30 minute PBS documentary in 1979. The special was shown three times and won an Emmy Award in 1980.

The 1984 paperback edition has ISBN 0-87910-000-1. The 60th anniversary paperback has ISBN 0-7868-8352-9.

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• The Studio 1938
• The Scripts
• The Brains
• The Heart
• The Nerve and the Music
• Casting
• The directors
• The Stars and the Stand-ins
• The Munchkins
• "Below the line"
• Special Effects
• Accidents
• After Oz