For decades, the story of Buddy Ebsen, the original choice to play the Tin Man in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, has lived in a strange space between fact and folklore. Online retellings often frame ...

The identity of the Tin Man — like Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion — are deliberately kept vague in the final footage. In fact, the Oz characters are initially shot from behind before the ...

The classic version of the movie Travel down the Yellow Brick Road with a girl from Kansas, Dorothy and her loyal dog Toto as they embark on a magical adventure to meet the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The internet wants to make such a scandal of this,” Fricke says. “‘They tried to kill the Tin Man. They tried to kill the Witch.