The Wizard of Oz

MGM CLASSIC COLLECTION Since Leo the MGM lion first roared in 1924, the stars and films of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer read like a "who's who" of cinema history. Now, in the MGM Classic Collection, you can re-live the magic of a star studded era that spanned four decades. Every film in the collection a proven classic. Build up a library of your own personal favourites and recapture (or discover for the first time) the glamour, music and passion of vintage Hollywood. Probably no film in the whole of MGM is more famous than The Wizard of Oz. Made in 1939, it still continues to amaze new audiences with brightness, its perfect casting, its sumptuous effects and the superb score by Harold Arlen and E.Y. ('Yip') Harburg featuring such great standards as We're off to see the Wizard,' 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road' and the immortal 'Over the Rainbow'.' Heading the huge cast (9,000 performers were paid to appear!) was Judy Garland, a winsome Dorothy , and Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr as her travelling companions through the enchanted land to find the Wizard, played by Frank Morgan. The arduous shooting schedule lasted five months. Victor Fleming directed, but Kansas sequence was shot by King Vidor. © Loew's Incorporated and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc