"Margaret Hamilton was definitely a touchstone for me," she tells Entertainment Weekly. Hamilton played the Wicked Witch in the legendary 1939 film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's novel. Her ...

Most of Margaret Hamilton's scenes as the Wicked Witch were cut from the 1939 film because they were too scary Though she's been humanized in recent depictions like Gregory Maguire's Wicked (and ...

before she was known as the Wicked Witch of the West. From her struggles with familiar jealousy, her thirst for knowledge and her encounters with the marginalized talking animals of Oz ...