Hospital dashes, explosions and poison – inside the real curse of the Wizard of Oz

FANS of the philharmonic Wicked person been waiting implicit a decennary for it to beryllium turned into a movie for the metallic screens and present it's yet out.

The musical, which is intimately based connected the 1939 film Wizard of Oz has been the lone happening immoderate of america person been speaking astir each month, and portion we whitethorn person fond memories of the archetypal film, immoderate judge it is cursed.

Watching the film, you're transported into a magical onshore wherever bully conquers evil but down the scenes it was a wholly antithetic story.

From formed members being acceptable connected occurrence to being poisoned by make-up and starved connected set, here's the existent communicative of the Wizard of Oz and wherefore it was cursed from the get-go.

Shine Bright

The archetypal Tin Man from the movie was played by Buddy Ebsen nevertheless we don't spot him connected the screen.

MGM media institution tested respective ways to marque him look silvery including achromatic look overgarment coated with aluminum dust, but determination was 1 tiny problem, it was highly toxic.

Nine days into filming, Buddy was hospitalised with shortness of enactment and cramping.

The aluminum particulate had got into his lungs causing them to fail, helium was treated for 2 weeks due to the fact that of it.

While going done treatment, the film's shaper hired histrion Jack Haley to replace him.

Jack was unaware of what happened to the erstwhile actor, but MGM thought it would beryllium good arsenic they switched the pulverization for a paste.

But yet again, it caused issues erstwhile it accidentally got successful Jack's oculus causing him to person an exigency cognition to woody with the corruption from the toxic solution.

Fortunately, helium besides survived and was capable to proceed filming the film.

Green With Envy

Margaret Hamilton was formed arsenic the Wicked Witch of the East (also known arsenic Elphaba successful Wicked) but it didn't spell good for her.

To statesman with, the greenish overgarment that she was covered successful was made with copper, and you guessed it, it was besides toxic.

The histrion was forced to not devour for hours arsenic ingestion of the overgarment could person poisoned her, and her luck didn't look to get better.

While filming the iconic Munchkinland scene, she jumped into a trap doorway to disappear.

But she was near with terrible third-degree burns connected her assemblage and look from the stunt arsenic the occurrence and fume were fto retired earlier she was safely nether the set.

To apical it off, she had to person her assemblage washed down with acetone due to the fact that of the copper paint.

She erstwhile said of the incident: "I'll never, arsenic agelong arsenic I live, person thing that [takes] my enactment distant similar that pain."

After the ordeal, she refused to movie immoderate much scenes involving occurrence - leaving it to her stunt double, Betty Danko who besides didn't person overmuch luck staying harmless connected set.

While filling in, Betty's broomstick had a smoking tube attached to the bottommost of the spot erstwhile it exploded and she was flung disconnected the broom, she past spent 11 days successful hospital.

She recalled: "I felt arsenic though my scalp was coming off. I conjecture that's due to the fact that my chapeau and my achromatic wig were torn loose.

"They recovered them, days later, astatine the apical of the stage. The detonation blew maine disconnected the broomstick. I managed to drawback it with some hands and propulsion my limb implicit it.

"I hung upside down portion the men handling the wires lowered the broomstick to the level and enactment maine look down connected the signifier … While I laic determination connected the floor, waiting for the ambulance, the wardrobe pistillate came moving in, and she said, 'What did you bash with the hat? I person to crook it in, you know.'"

Let It Snow

One of the astir beauteous scenes successful The Wizard of Oz is erstwhile Dorothy and her trio of men (the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion) each marque their mode done the poppy fields to Emerald City to conscionable the large Wizard himself.

They extremity up falling dormant owed to a spell formed by the Wicked Witch, but of course, Glinda the bully witch comes to the rescue conscionable successful time.

She sprinkles snow implicit the poppies to assistance the spell and aftermath them up - but the snowfall utilized successful the country was successful information made from 100% asbestos.

In the scene, you tin spot the asbestos autumn connected apical of the actors and into their mouths.

While determination is nary confirmed link., Bert Lahr, who played the Lion, and Ray Bolger who played the Scarecrow, did yet walk distant from cancer, thing asbestos tin cause.

Starved and Drugged

Judy Garland was conscionable 16 astatine the clip she landed the pb relation of Dorothy successful the movie and portion she didn't person immoderate accidents connected set, she definite did get the worst of it.

The archetypal diagnostic movie she stared successful for MGM media, producers tormented her erstwhile she was fourteen, “MGM told her she looked similar a ‘fat small pig with pigtails’ connected surface and she was enactment connected her archetypal of galore diets. B

"Because her calories were truthful restricted—executives would spell truthful acold arsenic to region a plateful of nutrient erstwhile she was astir to devour it—she was permanently hungry.”

She was forced to deterioration a corset nether her checkered formal to marque her look smaller and was fixed baccy to chew to suppress her appetite.

It has besides been reported that she was fixed a cocktail of drugs, biographer, Lauren Becall states: “From childhood, Judy was placed connected drugs – to suffer value oregon to spell to sleep oregon to aftermath up. And erstwhile you get hooked connected pills… it evidently affected her.”

Garland told biographer Pail Donnelley: "They’d springiness america pills to support america connected our feet agelong aft we were exhausted.

Then they’d instrumentality america to the workplace infirmary and sound america retired with sleeping pills.

“Then aft 4 hours they’d aftermath america up and springiness america the pep pills again truthful we could enactment 72 hours successful a row. Half of the clip we were hanging from the ceiling but it was a mode of beingness for us.”

According to her 3rd hubby Sidney Luft, she was besides harassed by actors and executives connected set.

He recalled: "They thought they could get distant with thing due to the fact that they were truthful small.

"They would marque Judy’s beingness miserable connected acceptable by putting their hands nether her dress.

"The men were 40 oregon much years old."

In a biography, it was revealed that the teenage starlet was repeatedly propositioned for enactment by executives astatine the movie studio, MGM.

Studio brag Louis B. Mayer would compliment Garland's dependable by putting his manus connected her near bosom pretending to interaction her heart, which is wherever helium said she sang from.

She yet told him to halt his creepy advances and, according to the biography, Mayer cried and said helium loved her.

Monkey Around

The flying monkey soldiers who travel the Wicked Witch successful the movie were really played by actors of abbreviated stature.

They were hoisted up connected wires to marque it look similar they were flying successful the films but galore of the wires broke starring them to autumn astatine slightest 7 feet from the air.

While galore did endure injuries nary of them died thankfully.