But the Wicked Witch’s glee at tormenting the folks of Oz leaves no doubt as to why she gave nightmares to so many children throughout the years. The Wizard of Oz needed Margaret Hamilton’s ...

The auction notes the witch’s hats impact on pop culture. In the modern Broadway musical and 2024 feature film “Wicked,” the witch hat symbolizes Elphaba’s transformation into the ...

Many TV villains could easily be one of the Wicked Witches from Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz universe. They are self-involved and often corrupt, using magic to get their way and ...

Frank Baum’s 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Baum's book inspired the ... started their own journey to becoming the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch of the North.

It wasn’t always easy being green for Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. And Hamilton — who died at age 82 in 1985 — went through a ...

Dorothy’s ruby slippers weren’t the only Wizard of Oz piece of memorabilia sold at this auction. A pointy witch hat worn by Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West also sold for $2. ...

Wicked fans won’t have to wait too long to return to the wonderful land of Oz.

"The best way to bring folks together is to give them a real good enemy." — 'The Wizard of Oz, Wicked: Part 1' In his 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L Frank Baum transports readers to a ...

Frank Baum’s children’s book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” But beyond that ... As for Elphaba, she’s technically the Wicked Witch of the West, but really she is Dorothy, too, or rather ...

Based on the Broadway musical, it serves as a backstory to the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, casting that film’s villain, the Wicked Witch of the West, in a positive light, as a misunderstood and ...