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11 unusual facts about L. Frank Baum


Action Synthese

The studio is currently working on a movie based on the popular novel The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and a sequel to the feature film The Magic Roundabout.

Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross

Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross is a 1915 young adult novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz.

Avery County, North Carolina

Oz Days at the former Land of Oz theme park on Beech Mountain in the fall also attracts visitors who love the legacy of the famous Judy Garland movie "The Wizard of Oz" based on Frank Baum's famous book.

Ayo!

The Wiz is an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz which features an entire African American cast.

Beyond Zork

This is a not-very-subtle tribute to (or parody of) L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Dwight James Baum

Baum was distantly related to author and designer L. Frank Baum.

Edmund F. Burton

Burton was married to Alberta Neiswanger Hall, a composer who wrote songs for children, including settings for L. Frank Baum's The Songs of Father Goose.

Father Goose

Father Goose: His Book, by L. Frank Baum, or the character of that name in his other works

Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919), American author of children's books, notably The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Münchner Kindl

It is possible that the Münchner Kindl was the inspiration for the Munchkins in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road

The game is an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, using its characters, locations and plot.


Butterfly McQueen

She played the Queen of the Field Mice, a character from the original L. Frank Baum novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; however, when the show was revised prior to going to Broadway, McQueen's role was cut by incoming director Geoffrey Holder.

Captain Carrot

According to the final issue of the series, the book was cancelled in favor of placing the Zoo Crew in a number of miniseries, but only one such miniseries, the three-issue Oz/Wonderland War (in which the characters became involved in an interdimensional war involving the worlds of L. Frank Baum and Lewis Carroll), was ever published.

Father Goose: His Book

Father Goose: His Book is a collection of nonsense poetry for children, written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, and first published in 1899.

Father Goose's Year Book

The book was illustrated by Walter J. Enright; he was the husband of Maginel Wright Enright, the artist who illustrated Baum's The Twinkle Tales (1906), Policeman Bluejay (1907), and L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker (1910).

Francis Boggs

In Chicago in 1908 he made The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays which had its writer, L. Frank Baum present a slide show and films as a live travelogue presentation of his Oz story.

Hoaxes and legends of upstate New York

The Cardiff Giant, for example, attracted such attention from the public and from writers such as Mark Twain and L. Frank Baum that P. T. Barnum made a copy which toured the country with his circus.

If I Were King of the Forest

"Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' on Stage and Screen to 1939".

Mary Elizabeth Lease

Literary scholar Brian Attebery claimed Mary Elizabeth Lease to have been the model for Dorothy in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Max Yoho

Other books from this list include Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Robert Day's The Last Cattle Drive, and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Ozma of Oz

L. Frank Baum revisited this story for the plot of his 1913 musical The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, starring James C. Morton and Fred Woodward.

Rainbow Road to Oz

Inspired by L. Frank Baum's Oz books, the film was to have starred some of the Mouseketeers, including Darlene Gillespie as Dorothy and Annette Funicello as Ozma, as well as Bobby Burgess as the Scarecrow, Tommy Kirk as the villainous son of the Wicked Witch of the West, and Kevin Corcoran.

Ralph Fletcher Seymour

For a time around the turn of the twentieth century, Seymour was associated with L. Frank Baum, and worked on Baum's books By the Candelabra's Glare (1898), Father Goose: His Book (1899), and American Fairy Tales (1901).

Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea

Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea is a juvenile adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz.

Sir Harold and the Gnome King

In Sir Harold and the Gnome King, Shea visits two such worlds, first (briefly) that of L. Ron Hubbard's setting from The Case of the Friendly Corpse (actually invented by John D. Clark and Mark Baldwin) and second L. Frank Baum's land of Oz.

The Emerald Wand of Oz

The Emerald Wand of Oz is a 2005 book by Sherwood Smith and is a continuation of the Oz series that was started by L. Frank Baum in 1900 and continued by his many successors.The book is illustrated by William Stout and published by Harper Collins.

Violet MacMillan

In motion pictures Miss MacMillan joined the stock company of The Oz Film Manufacturing Company (where she appeared in the company's logo, with her face on a black background) and debuted in the film version of The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) and the lost series of L. Frank Baum-written and produced shorts, Violet's Dreams, in which she played a girl named Claribel who had fairy-tale adventures in her dreams.