Who Owns The Right To Wizard Of OZ?
The American musical fantasy film The Wizard of Oz, which was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, debuted in theatres in 1939. (MGM). Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton feature in this Victor Fleming-directed film adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz…
The American musical fantasy film The Wizard of Oz, which was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, debuted in theatres in 1939. (MGM). Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton feature in this Victor Fleming-directed film adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (who left the production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind).
The screenplay’s authorship was credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, though other writers also contributed without being acknowledged. The words were written by Edgar “Yip” Harburg, Harold Arlen composed the music, and Herbert Stothart adapted it.
The production of the movie was prompted by Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), which proved that movies based on well-known children’s stories and fairytale mythology could still be profitable. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the publishing rights to L. Frank Baum’s enormously popular book from Samuel Goldwyn in January 1938. Eddie Cantor, the actor Goldwyn wanted to play the Scarecrow, was under contract with Samuel Goldwyn Productions, thus Goldwyn considered utilizing the movie as a platform for him.
Who Owns The Right To Wizard Of OZ?
The Wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming is not recognised as being in the public domain. The original owner of the rights to the film is really MGM, who produced The Wizard of Oz.
