The success of the Oz books prompted a musical adaptation for the stage. Many biographies exist detailing his life and work. He suffered a stroke and died on May 5, 1919. Through the first half decade of the 2000s, it continued to generate academic and mainstream books, journal articles, CD music releases, videocassette releases, websites, blogs, merchandizing, and a remastered digital DVD release.īaum was born on May 15, 1856, in Chittenango, New York. In 1998 The Wizard of Oz ranked sixth out of one hundred in an American Film Institute poll it was the highest ranked musical in the genre of fantasy and family movies. Sidney Lumet directed an African American stage version in 1978 The Wiz starred pop-music icons Diana Ross and Michael Jackson as Dorothy and the Scarecrow, respectively. These airings, with few exceptions, became an annual tradition and continued through 2002. Since the 1950s, the film has aired continuously on network and cable television. The film launched actress Judy Garland ’s stardom she won an Academy Award and made the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow ” popular and famous, earning it recognition as the number one song of the twentieth century. Lyman Frank Baum wrote seventeen sequels comprising the Oz series, though none repeated or surpassed the popularity of the first book. The book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and its film adaptation The Wizard of Oz (1939) quickly became a foundational element in American popular culture with countless idiomatic allusions, cultural references, and pervasive merchandizing.
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