[ SECRET POST #2797 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2797 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Most reinterpretations and merchandise are likely based on Judy Garland's portrayal because it is the most popular (by far). Hell I didn't know Dorothy was not a teen until now.

[(Anonymous)]

They tried as hard as they could to make her look younger, though. They had to bind down her boobs and everything. Shirley Temple, IMO, would have made a far superior Dorothy, but she just couldn't sing Over the Rainbow.

[(Anonymous)]

So what if that is what they did? That is not what the audience saw. And the audience's opinion FAR outweighs what TPTB were intending.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought (heard) Shirley Temple refused the role because it didn't pay as much as she wanted. If she just couldn't sing the song, couldn't they have gotten someone else to do it and dubbed it in?

[(Anonymous)]

Know, Shirley was supposed to be Dorothy but since she wasn't contracted to MGM(?) they were supposed to loan her out in exchange for one of the other company's stars (and I want to say it was Clark Gable she was being swapped with? not sure), but the deal fell through and the studio turned to Judy as a second choice.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, this is what I heard. Actors were contracted by specific studios in those days, and you couldn't necessarily get an actor from a different studio. They wanted Shirley Temple, but weren't able to get her.

Convinced Temple would successfully move from child star to teenage actress, Zanuck declined a substantial offer from MGM to star Temple as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and cast her instead in Susannah of the Mounties, her last money-maker for Twentieth Century-Fox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Temple

[(Anonymous)]

I get secondhand embarrassment for Garland in TWoZ. I didn't mind it as a kid, but the older I got the more ridiculous her obvious figure and womany singing voice is with her pigtailed, gosh-oh-golly personality. If you watched the movie for the first time as an adult, you'd probably thing Dorothy was "slow", not a prepubescent child.

[(Anonymous)]

If you watched the movie for the first time as an adult, you'd probably thing Dorothy was "slow", not a prepubescent child.

I saw it as a teenager, and while I didn't think Dorothy was "slow", I wondered why on earth an obvious teenager was dressing and talking like an eight year old. I thought she was just supposed to be clueless. It wasn't until years later that I realized no, she was supposed to be eight years old.

[tabaqui]

Really? I never thought that. She seemed like an unworldly adolescent who'd grown up rather isolated in a small, poor community. Neither slow nor weird, just - innocent.