Apparently some pretty crazy ideas were cut from the 1939 movie the Wizard of Oz. According to wikipedia, these plots were revised out of the script:
Because of a perceived need to attract a youthful audience through appealing to modern fads and styles, the script originally featured a scene with a series of musical contests. A spoiled, selfish princess in Oz had outlawed all forms of music except classical and operetta, and went up against Dorothy in a singing contest in which Dorothy's swing style enchanted listeners and won the grand prize. This part was initially written for Betty Jaynes. The plan was later dropped.
I would've loved to see American Idol Wizard of Oz style.
Another scene, which was removed before final script approval and never filmed, was a concluding scene back in Kansas after Dorothy's return. Hunk (the Kansan counterpart to the Scarecrow) is leaving for agricultural college, and extracts a promise from Dorothy to write to him. The implication of the scene is that romance will eventually develop between the two, which also may have been intended as an explanation for Dorothy's partiality for the Scarecrow over her other two companions.
Why don't we name boys Hunk anymore? Dorothy in love with Scarecrow? I'll have to watch the movie again & see. Did anyone else notice that she like the Scarecrow more?
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I always chalked her partiality for the Scarecrow up to the fact that she met him first. Was with him on their quest the longest. I never would have put a romantic spin on it.
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