49. MYTH CHECK! The biggest myth about The Wizard of Oz is that in the background of one scene, viewers can see a hanged person—a Munchkin—dangling from a tree. Relax, there was no hanging.

This myth simply will not go away ... Leopold Singer brought 124 little people to The Wizard of Oz set who were part of his Singer Midgets vaudeville troupe. (While that term is obviously no ...

Lowery’s sensitivity to myth (calling cinema “a Quaalude for ... Don’t smirk at the idea of Lynch/Oz. The Wizard of Oz could influence Lynch’s straight-faced surrealism because it taught ...