Although 1939's The Wizard of Oz gives the Wicked Witch of the West a lot more powers, 2024's Wicked does a much better job of showing how powerful Elphaba is.

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 ...

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 ...

The Wicked Witch of the West: A Heroine for Our Time “Wicked,” which arrives to the big screen this fall, redeems the villain who is barely a character in L. Frank Baum’s classic novel.

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.

A broom-riding crone Number four on the American Film Institute’s list of greatest villains is The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West.