The story of how a green-skinned woman framed by the Wizard of Oz becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. The first of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.

Love her or hate her, there's no denying that the Wicked Witch of the West's legacy has expanded well beyond The Wizard of Oz, even if she wasn't ever the most important or dangerous character in ...

No witch trying to shove Hansel and Gretel into the oven. Baum didn't want that kind of witch. So he and Denslow tamed her. Not least by making her, in the illustrations, just Dorothy's size.

Just because the Wicked Witch of the West melted at the end of The Wizard of Oz doesn’t mean character actress Margaret Hamilton did. In fact, she went on to have an illustrious film career ...

Long before the new movie "Wicked" made a sympathetic character of the Wicked Witch of the West, she was played by actress Margaret Hamilton in the classic film, The Wizard of Oz. But it was not ...

More than 50 years after Hamilton wore toxic copper-based face paint to appear green in The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire ’s 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the ...

Margaret Hamilton (1902 - 1985) as the Wicked Witch and Judy Garland (1922 - 1969) as Dorothy Gale in 'The Wizard of Oz', 1939. Hamilton's life and times are the subject of a new book by Don Billie.