Aljean Harmetz

Aljean Harmetz is a Hollywood journalist and film historian. She has written as a Hollywood film correspondent for The New York Times since 1981.

Her film books include: The Making of The Wizard of Oz, a detailed book about the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca : Bogart, Bergman, and World War II (NY: Hyperion, 1992), and On the Road to Tara: the Making of Gone with the Wind.

Harmetz is also the author of the fictional work "Off the Face of the Earth," a story of a boy's abduction and the efforts to free him.^[1]

Aljean Harmetz is related by marriage to the corporate lawyer, Lloyd Harmetz.^{[citation needed]}

The Wiz

Harmetz provided the map of the Land of Oz, and wrote the teaser trailer to the 1978 film The Wiz (film).

List of Works

• The Making of The Wizard of Oz Knopf (1977) ISBN 978-0786883523
• Rolling Breaks and Other Movie Business Random House (1983) ISBN 978-0394528861
• Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of "Casablanca" Hyperion (1992) ISBN 978-1562827618
• On the Road to Tara: The Making of Gone with the Wind Harry N. Abrams (1996) ISBN 978-0810936843
• Off the Face of the Earth Scribner (1997) ISBN 978-0684836171

References

External links

• Aljean Harmetz at the Internet Movie Database
• Aljean Harmetz collected news and commentary at The New York Times