"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 ...

Even the OG movie - which starred Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, Margaret Hamilton as the green, cackling Wicked Witch and Billie Burke as the fairy godmother–like Glinda - was an adaptation.

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 ...

Judy Garland’s daughter, Lorna Luft, said her mom, who played Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ would have loved ‘Wicked’ starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo ...

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 ...

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Was the Wicked Witch of the West born wicked or did she have wickedness thrust upon her? Maybe what appears as wickedness began in the witch’s childhood. That’s what Massachusetts Author ...

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 ...