Remembered for Playing the Title Role in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ Frank Morgan Flexes His Comedic Muscles in ‘The Good Fairy’

The picture is one of the selections featured in the Paris Theater’s current run of films, ‘A Century of Romance: Star-Crossed, On The Run and Happily Ever After.’

Via the Paris Theater
Margaret Sullavan in 'The Good Fairy' (1935). Via the Paris Theater

The actor Frank Morgan (1890-1949) will be remembered for time and eternity as the great and powerful Oz or, rather, the bumbling but loquacious humbug puttering behind the curtain in Victor Fleming’s “The Wizard of Oz” (1939). Among the reasons the movie holds up and is held dear are its music and spectacle, of course, but the cleverness of the dialogue shouldn’t be overlooked.

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