1995 KEN THE WIZARD OF OZ TIN MAN HOLLYWOOD CLASSIC BARBIE NIB CULT CINEMA ICON

A VINTAGE HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS COLLECTION. BY MATTEL COPYRIGHT 1995,

COPYRIGHT 1939 TURNER ENTERTAINMENT.

KEN AS THE TIN MAN,

IN THE WIZARD OF OZ!

"ON THEIR WAY TO THE EMERALD CITY, DOROTHY AND THE SCARECROW STOPPED BRIEFLY TO GATHER SOME APPLES. THERE, JUST BEYOND THE TREES, THEY DISCOVERED THE TIN WOODSMAN.

DOROTHY AND THE SCARECROW OILED THE TIN MAN'S, RUSTY JOINTS AND HELPED MOVE HIM ABOUT. THE TIN MAN DANCED HAPPILY AROUND AS HE LOOSENED UP HIS STIFF LEGS. THEN, HE POUNDED ON HIS CHEST, IT ACTUALLY ECHOED! "BEAUTIFUL," ECLAIMED THE SCARECROW. BUT TO THE TINMANIT WASN'T AT ALL, HIS CHEST WAS AN EMPTY KETTLE. "THEY DIDN'T GIVE ME A HEART", HE EXPLAINED. "NO HEART," GASPED DORTHY AND SCARE CROW IN DISBELIEF. "NO HEART," SAID THE TIN MAN SADLY."   

LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE BARBIE'S. HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS. NEW IN THE BOX / NIB. NRFB / NEVER REMOVED FROM BOX. POSEABLE DOLL! COMES WITH FABRIC / FAUX METAL SUIT. RED POCKET WATCH HEART AWARDED BY THE GREAT WIZARD. WITH WOOD AXE & OIL CAN.

 

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The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is based on L. Frank Baum's turn-of-the-century children's story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which a resourceful American girl is snatched up by a Kansas tornado and deposited in a fantastic land of witches, talking scarecrows, cowardly lions, and more. It stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton. It also featured a cast of little people in the roles of the munchkins including Jerry Maren as the Lollipop Kid and Meinhardt Raabe as the Munchkin Coroner. While not the first feature film produced in Technicolor (as commonly believed), The Wizard of Oz makes conspicuous use of the technique; its Kansas bookend sequences are in sepia-toned black-and-white, while the Oz scenes are in full three-strip Technicolor.

L. Frank Baum (born Lyman Frank Baum on May 15, 1856, in Chittenango, New York) published his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900. Over the following years it sold millions of copies, and Baum wrote thirteen more Oz books before his death on May 15, 1919.

In January 1938, MGM bought the rights to the book. The script was completed on October 8, 1938 (following numerous rewrites). Filming started on October 13, 1938 and was completed on March 16, 1939. The film premiered on August 12, 1939, and went into general release on August 25.

The movie's script was adapted by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf. Several people assisted with the adaptation without official credit: Irving Brecher, William H. Cannon, Herbert Fields, Arthur Freed, Jack Haley, E.Y. Harburg, Samuel Hoffenstein, Bert Lahr, John Lee Mahin, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jack Mintz, Ogden Nash, and Sid Silvers. It was directed by Victor Fleming, Richard Thorpe (uncredited), George Cukor (uncredited), and King Vidor (uncredited). Costume design was by Adrian.

Music and Lyrics were by Harold Arlen and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, who won Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score and Best Music, Song for "Over the Rainbow").

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