It wasn’t until a 1949 re-issue that The Wizard of Oz turned a profit.īy then, the ‘curse’ of the movie was in motion.
Executives who had blanched at the overtly fantastical elements of the plot and suggested changes (in one early draft of the script the Tin Man and Scarecrow are normal people who happen to dress oddly) must have felt vindicated. Though reviews were kind and the novel by L Frank Baum on which it was based was well-loved, audiences did not flock to the film. The Wizard Of Oz was not a hit on its release in 1939. They brandished knives and conceived passions for normal-sized cast members.” “The police used to scoop them up in butterfly nets.” Bert Lahr, who played the easily frightened Lion said: “Assistants were ordered to watch the midgets. “They were drunks, they got smashed every night,” Judy Garland recalled. Between takes they drank and brawled it is suggested they supplemented their earnings - Toto the dog was on a better pay-scale - by pimping themselves out to the crew. The diminutive Munchkins experienced no such calamities but their off-screen debauchery was soon Hollywood folklore. The famous flying monkey scene almost ended tragically as the piano wires suspending the actors snapped and they fell to the ground. (“I will return to work on one condition,” she said from hospital. Alas, the timing was off and the detonation occurred before her tumble to safety. She was required to fall through a trap-door which would burst into flames.
Meanwhile, during the shoot, Wicked Witch of The West Margaret Hamilton suffered severe burns. The aluminum powder, which had coated Ebsen’s lungs, was changed to a less toxic paste Haley, nevertheless, came down with a painful eye-infection. His replacement, Jack Haley, fared better but only just. The original choice to play Tin Man, Buddy Ebsen, was hospitalised following a dangerous allergic reaction to the silver-make-up. She wasn’t alone in finding the filming an ordeal. With justification the actress would later complain the studio had stolen her youth, and fundamentally damaged her as a human being. Garland weighed seven stone and was encouraged to smoke up to 80 cigarettes daily to suppress her appetite. This was at a devastating cost to her health. Plucked from a dustbowl sideshow by MGM studios age 13, when cast in the Wizard of Oz four years later, she was living almost like an indentured slave, allowed only one square meal a day and fed barbiturates so she could keep pace with the gruelling schedule. An ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh each by state government has been announced for kin of the deceased.Though her suffering was concealed from the cameras, star Judy Garland - a vision of pigtails and dewy eyes as Dorothy - is known to have had an especially miserable time. Maharashtra cabinet minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik said that action will be taken against those found guilty and also said that the Chief Minister would announce compensation to the kin of the deceased.Īt aroud 5.08 pm, ANI reported that one more person succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, taking the death toll to 11. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has ordered an in-depth inquiry into the incident. Several fire tenders were rushed to the spot to control the fire while the exact reason of the fire is not yet known. Senior police officials have reached the spot and have been supervising the rescue operation.Īs per reports, six patients have suffered serious burn injuries in this fire incident. Confirming the incident, the district collector Rajendra Bhosale said that 10 patients died on Saturday in a fire in the intensive care unit of Ahmednagar Hospital in Maharashtra.Īccording to him, there were 17 Covid-19 patients in the intensive care unit when the fire broke out around 11 am and was reportedly spreading to other wards.
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