Instead of being misunderstood, the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 classic was someone to be feared. Changes from the book and Margaret Hamilton’s performance are major reasons why the ...
Life after death, for the villainess at least, began in 1995 with children’s author Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Maguire’s novel is a revisionist take ...
Sharing the screen with these heavy hitters is a nod to a small Hudson Valley town with some pretty famous residents of its own. Margaret Hamilton, the actress who originated the role of the Wicked ...
In Baum's novel, the most famous witch is the Wicked Witch of the West, and the one who tries to get Dorothy out of the Land of Oz. The story also has other Wicked Witches from other sides of the ...
In the original storyline, Dorothy was the protagonist – innocent and the heroine who defeated the big bad – encapsulated in the Wicked Witch of the West. We should acknowledge the artistic influence ...
When Wicked star Cynthia Erivo set about ... According to Erivo, she saw a photo of actor Margaret Hamilton, who played the witch in the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie, and that inspired her to stick ...