This was a good reason why Ray Bolger was more suited for the scarecrow instead of the tin man. Ray could dance very flexibly as a doll should because a scarecrow is a doll. I heard that this deleted scene was found in the MGM vaults in 1973 and still in good condition. This version was not used for length reasons.
The thing is that Buddy Ebsen was also a very good, loose-limbed dancer. In fact, a few years after he was let go from the movie, he played the Scarecrow in a stage production.
Guess what? They're going to re release this movie in theaters next month for 2 days only to celebrate Judy Garland's 100th birthday And the movie is going to be including with the deleted sequence I'll bet it's going to be this sequence That'll make you feel happy 😃
Only once did I see this movie with this scene intact. It was a director's cut restoration in the early 70s. It makes more sense with his dance in. This is also what Bolger was famous for--his unique style of dance.
Missing scenes from the original movie, which I believe were cut after a pre-screening in Santa Barbara (jeez, to think that were was an audience out there somewhere that once saw the entire Wizard of Oz film) were: 1) This If I Only Had A Brain extension, 2) the Jitterbug Sequence (when the four are on their way to the castle and get attacked by Jitterbugs), 3) The Return to Emerald City (I can't recall the sequence's actual name) after they have killed WWW. There are also countless musical extensions which were recorded by Herbert Stothart for the film, but which were cut along with the above sequences, and with other sequences that were either partially filmed (Tin Man being attacked by bees). All of those are available in the Deluxe CD Set, which is now also available on iTunes. The music that Stothard created for the scoring out of Arlen's and Harberg's songs are just magical and other worldly. A lot of the scoring that I'm talking about was either dialed down to allow for clarity of dialogue, or was completely deleted (reprise of Dorothy singing Over The Rainbow in a very frightened voice as she's trapped in the witches castle). If you love the Wizard of Oz, you must here these tracks. I'm so glad that they are available on iTunes now because the CD package is not as easy to get anymore since the CD format is pretty much out of favor.
Because studio executives wanted to keep the running time of the film to about 100 minutes, 'Bluejeans'. Several other sequences were deleted before the film's initial release, including "The Jitterbug", performed just before the Winged Monkeys capture Dorothy, and a reprise of "Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead", as Dorothy triumphantly returns to the Emerald City after destroying the Witch.
The cast was probably even more pissed about the "Jitterbug" being deleted because they spent 5 weeks practicing and doing that scene. On top of that, that dance scene cost over $80,000 to do! But at least Ray Bolger's deleted scene still exists.
@c857553 Film studios tended to destroy unused footage back in those days in case the deleted moments were recycled in films by other studios. Copyright worked differently back then. It only extended to the released product, not to bits that weren't used. Hence, the Magnificent Ambersons and Freaks will be forever vandalised by homicidal studio cuts, most famously, and the original King Kong will forever be without its styracosaur chase and spider pit scenes.
@@iainrobb2076 it was difficult to blame them, since that was many decades before home media, home video existed, so they saw no future commercial value for those deleted scenes, and it was even before TV became mainstream in households, society as well. The reprise of Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, also known as the Triumphal Return to Emerald City, thats my favorite of the lost scenes, footage from The Wizard of Oz, that i wish still existed in its entirety, or wish it remained in the film, only a few seconds of that scene survive in the reissue trailer of 1949.
How I first recall first seeing this as seen on a local news report & the telling of this scene being seen in That's Dancing which followed That's Entertainment Part II then after this would come That's Entertainment Part III.
FUN FACT: This dance sequence was choreographed by Busby Berkley. Him and Judy Garland never got along on all the sets they did. Later films like GIRL CRAZY and ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, Busby caused her to faint.
This movie will be released in theaters for 2 days only for Judy Garland's 100th birthday and they said it's going to feature a deleted musical sequence I'll be it's going to be this scene and I'm hoping it will because I love this sequence
Certainly he was pissed, 'Hoching'. Bolger wouldn't have another "chance" to make his mark in musical comedy until he sang "Once In Love With Amy" on Broadway, in "Where's Charley?", in 1948.
didn't realize they cut so much of this movie, the stuff ray did was awesome but it was wise to not use it, the story is what made this movie great, not the singing and dancing.
"Over the Rainbow" would have been deleted too, if Arthur Freed (associate producer) and Roger Edens (Judy's vocal coach) hadn't insisted the song stay in the film. By the way, the choreography was created for Bolger by Busby Berkeley.
That's one story. The other is that producer Mervyn LeRoy, who had always envisioned the film as a Garland vehicle and who campaigned against all odds to star her in the picture, insisted the number stay in.
Believe it or not, when Warner Bros re released the film in theaters for its 60th anniversary in 1998, they originally planned to edit this scene back into the movie. However they ended up scrapping the idea for unknown reasons
@@superjackster0165: Well, there was a line or two that would have been thought of as quite "creepy" by today's standards. Too bad they won't be finding ways to edit this or any other scenes back into Oz.
Things that got deleted from the wizard of oz that should of Been kept in the movie 1 extended version of over the rainbow 2 if I only had a brain 3 the jitterbug
That Scarecrow always Falling Down on the his Plants or on the floor just like Butch and Woim from the little rascals and put his But crack on top from the Pumpkin explanation please tell me why that scarecrow just Did that gave me the Reason
