The archive offered a fascinating look into the film’s development, including several scenes and plotlines which never made it into the final film.Īudiences sadly never got to see a musical dance number entitled ‘The Jitterbug’, designed to appeal to swing-dancing teenagers, or a storyline suggesting romance between Dorothy and Hunk, the Kansas farmhand version of the Scarecrow. The first script was handwritten by Noel Langley, one of several writers who worked on the film during pre-production (Image: Profiles in History) The first draft of the screenplay was written in April 1938 by Noel Langley, who was one of three writers credited with the final script (although many more went uncredited throughout the troubled production). The script had been described as “perhaps the most important manuscript in Hollywood history”, and was part of an historic archive documenting how the classic 1939 film was adapted for the silver screen from L. The original handwritten script for The Wizard of Oz has sold for $1.28 million during an auction of classic movie memorabilia at Profiles in History on December 11.
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