
Here's hoping Hollywood hires Wallace to make the ultimate crossover film. The video effects are so impressive it almost feels like this could be a real movie. Speaking of witches, the Scarlet Witch makes an appearance as, yes you guessed it, the green-skinned Wicked Witch, alongside Quicksilver as a Winged Monkey complete with a jaunty little hat. The Tin Man, one of the most well known characters in the Wizard of Oz, appears as the second person Dorothy finds on her expedition to The Great and. And when the Tin Man as Ultron flashes those creepy red glowing eyes, it's easy to picture something more evil than the Wicked Witch giving the citizens of Oz something to be afraid of.

The creepy Ultron voice-over gives Oz an eerie sinister undertone. After all, Thor does have an impressive mane and the Tin Man was one of the first cinematic robots, though we're pretty sure Captain America has a brain. The video warns at the beginning that "the following makes no sense," but casting is perfect.
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“Nobody on the movie ever saw her or heard of a munchkin assaulting her,” says Harmetz. Harmetz says it’s true that the actors would go drinking near the Culver City hotel where they stayed, but she says their interactions with Garland did not rise to the level of what Luft described. In a memoir by Judy Garland’s third husband, Sid Luft, published posthumously in 2017, he writes that, after bar-hopping in Culver City, the actors who played the munchkins “would make Judy’s life miserable by putting their hands under her dress.” Probably false: Judy Garland was molested by actors playing munchkins Terry did recover and returned to the set a few weeks later. The dog (a female Cairn terrier named Terry) sprained its foot, and Spitz had to get a canine double. If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder.Īn actor playing one of the Wicked Witch of the West’s soldiers accidentally jumped on top of Dorothy’s Toto, Carl Spitz, the dog trainer on set, told Harmetz. Click the link to confirm your subscription and begin receiving our newsletters. The rumor has been circulating since around 1989, the time of the 50th anniversary of the film’s release.įor your security, we've sent a confirmation email to the address you entered.

More likely, it’s one of the exotic birds that the filmmakers borrowed from the Los Angeles Zoo in order to create a wilderness setting, according to the fact-checking website. In a scene where Dorothy, the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), and the Tin Man (Jack Haley) are skipping down the Yellow Brick Road, singing “we’re off to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz,” some think the dark, moving figure hanging from a tree in the background is an actor who hanged himself on set. False: An actor who played a munchkin hanged himself on set Unlike Ebsen, she didn’t get fired because they could live without her on the set for several more weeks.

Margaret Hamilton - who played the Wicked Witch of the West and was the one tipped who Harmetz off to the turmoil on set more than three decades later for her 1977 book - got burns, and the makeup artists had to rush to remove her copper makeup so that it wouldn’t seep through her wounds and become toxic. He did develop an infection in his right eye that needed medical attention, but it ended up being treatable. This time, instead of applying the aluminum powder, the makeup artists mixed it into a paste and painted it on him. When he was not getting better fast enough, the filmmakers hired Jack Haley to be the Tin Man instead. Nine days after filming started he was hospitalized, sitting under an oxygen tent. the Tin Man, but he was essentially poisoned by the makeup, which was made of pure aluminum dust. Here’s what’s real and what’s myth in some of the most popular theories: True: the makeup made actors sickīuddy Ebsen was originally cast in the role of the Tin Woodman, a.k.a. Iron Studios presents the latest from the Art Scale 1:10 line - The Tin Man Deluxe Based on original references from The Wizard of Oz, this polystone DC statue is hand-painted and limited edition.
