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After hundreds of times seeing this movie as a kid, it was only today, years later, that I realized that Marvel was making up the whole story about Aunt Em being sick. I honestly just assumed he was the real deal. I already knew he cared about Dorothy’s safety and well-being, but this just takes that to another level. I think part of what helps him sell this to Dorothy (and to us) is the way he narrates it. He says it like he can really see everything that’s happening, the urgency in his voice rising as Em’s “despair” deepens. He’s a total showman and at that moment he needs to use his talents for good, to convince Dorothy that she is making a huge mistake. And he puts in the performance of a lifetime. He had me fooled for years, so I should know haha...
Every single thing that happens in a good movie is put there for a specific reason. But in this movie the only character not like that seems to be Uncle Henry.
Professor Marvel, a convincing fortune teller and tricks Dorothy into believing that Emily was probably sick as a way for her to go back home, and yet so heartfelt the way he thinks about her. It shows how much, in a way, he does mean well. "Poor little kid. I hope she gets home alright."
Not even "in a way." He outright meant well. He used his wiles, but, not to hurt Dorothy or to take anything from her. It was just to convince her to go home before she went any further and came to any harm.
What a touching scene. His talent as a showman lets him find the perfect way to get her to turn around and go home. "Poor kid, I hope she gets home all right"
this film is so deep and beautiful. the older i get the more i appreciate it. i hope its a story that is still being told thousands of years from now, but how or why certain tales live or die is still fully unclear to me. why the epic of gilgamesh? i think this story is able to reach us even when we are very young, and abstractly and gracefully tell us what it means to have a heart, a brain, courage. also, an empathic insight into how other people feel about about themselves and their roles.
@@Tonabillity I remember when I was little, I was very impatient during the Munchkinland sequence, wanting the "real" story to get started, but years later I got to appreciate it more and more, especially all the hard work that went into it. And each time I watch it now, I try to spot something I never did before, like the one soldier who draws a bead on the Wicked Witch with his rifle, but misses his chance. I have been honored to meet four of the Singer Midgets while they were still with us. :-)
Watching this movie as an adult - especially this scene - gives me a completely different perspective on it. It’s funny how different our minds view things when we’re children and when we’re adults
As children, we are completely innocent & believe everything that's told to us. As adults, we're more skeptical & tend to look at things in a different perspective.
@@dtlaguy3874 Since Dorothy told him that she wants to travel with him to Europe to see the Crowned Heads, I guess he lied to her that he usually checks his crystal first before doing anything as a way of trying to persuade her not to run away and go back home where his lie was that Auntie Em was dying. Perhaps at the part when he said to Dorothy "what's this I thought you were going along with me" was his way of hoping he persuaded her to go home feeling that she wasn't still interested in traveling with him to Europe. I have a feeling if he agreed to allow Dorothy travel with him from Kansas to Europe, he probably would have said to her something like "okay, hop inside the wagon and take a seat and make yourself comfortable" while Professor Marvel would have jumped on his horse Sylvester to have the wagon pulled.
I don’t know if you’ll see my comment or not, as I’m two years late, but as you say, he’s a hack, a fraud, and also a sweetheart at the same time, trying to convince Dorothy not to run away from home. But I wonder what he would’ve said if she’d have told him the reason as to why she ran away in the first place? Which is because of Miss Gulch trying to take Toto away and then would’ve come back for him once she noticed that he got away from her?!?
A terrific scene from one of the greatest musicals of all time. 1939 was one of the greatest years for motion pictures, atleast 10 films could have won the Best Picture Oscar. Wizard of oz was one of them!!!!!
"That's all, the crystal has gone dark." Judy Garland is just sublime in her reactions to what Frank Morgan is telling her of the visions in the crystal ball. Fine, instinctual actor that she was. And she could sing a bit, too.
Love the attention to detail in this movie. For example, at 1:43 the trees outside Professor Marvel's wagon are moving slightly in the breeze. There is a small, flowing stream passing underneath the bridge at the beginning of the clip.
Despite watching this movie all the time as a kid and knowing it nearly line for line, I watched it for the first time in probably 20 years a month ago, and Frank Morgan's performance is what I truly enjoyed, especially here. Despite everything I knew before, it's like I was watching this for the first time and appreciating it in a light I wasn't able to as a kid. Again, I knew all the lines and yet I was still laughing like it was the first time watching. That's the quality of a great movie, and a great performance.
A great movie has important life lessons to get across to the audience. But it is important that these lessons be the great lessons of life, ones that are really important. With the Wizard of Oz, parents fall all over themselves to get their young children to watch it!
Can I see your face put a picture of for me to see you probably got a dog in your house I love it come see me at the morning just call me text me back I want to come to my house my house is so so clean my mommy with nobody my mom probably let you in the house
Professor Marvel is a great fortune teller. He used his "power" to get Dorthy to go back home (she would have been killed by the twister otherwise). Most fortune tellers just tell you some bull and take your money,
@@cheneethompson5756 Tell your mom that the Prof is a charlatan using a heap of flim-flammery, and that his intentions are strictly altruistic, even Christian.
@@cheneethompson5756 If that's the case, I shan't ask what she thought of the scenes involving witches, dwarf-like creatures, flying monkeys and two inanimate objects and a wild animal coming to life and talking!
Happy birthday profesor :) Frank Morgan to 130 years . (1.6.1890-18.9.1949 59 years heart attack ) rest in peace and Happy birthday to acting heaven 😉😊🍸🥂🍺🍻🍾🍷🥃😉😊
Dorothy's dream is made up partially from the day residue that filtered into her subconscious from the events that took place the day just before she fell asleep. That's why the actors from the Kansas scenes are also in the Oz scenes, she recasts them and gives them all new identities in the dream world, then uses them to work through her Freudian issues from her waking life. They all represent parts of her psyche as well that she's trying to extinguish or gain in some way. The movie is a fascinating character study that can be analyzed through Freud and Jung's dream interpretations. Her journey to Oz becomes an internal journey where Dorothy explores parts of her mind to grow as a person. When she wakes up she has a new outlook and an energized soul from her unconscious dream world. This scene not only uses the parallel of Marvel as a few dream characters but also his crystal ball that he sees Aunt Em in becomes the crystal ball in the Witch's castle that Dorothy sees her in in her dream. (6/9/18)
Why does Dorothy dream about all the people she knows or met most recently EXCEPT her uncle. He's the only one to not make an appearance in the dream sequence. He doesn't even appear with the aunt in the crystal ball scene.
@@davedee6745 Because the idea was that neither of Dorothy's actual relatives would appear in Oz, because if they were there in some capacity, her desire to get home would not be as intense. That's where the RSC stage adaptation goes wrong; it has Aunt Em become Glinda and Uncle Henry become an amalgam of the Guardian of the Gates and Omby Amby.
I'm sorry that I never got to meet Frank Morgan..when he was still with us..Katie..I would have loved to tell him"Thanks for your wonderful screen interpretation of Frank Baum's beloved Ozian Humbug..Mr.Morgan".
@@CadeD679 In general he was, but he could also be irascible if things weren't going his way. But his co-stars, in particular Margaret Hamilton (who worked with him on another film) praised him for his generosity and talent.
clampfan101 And of course, Mgt. Hamilton as the infamous Witch of the West, and Ray Bolger(scarecrow),Jack Haley(Tin Man),and Bert(can't think of his last name, who had played the cowardly lion),you know, as those three actors had also played Uncle Henry's "hired hands."
She gives them new identities in her dream and uses these new personas to work out her Freudian issues as she sleeps. They all represent parts of her psyche that she yearns to come to terms with. Marvel also becomes a father figure she longs for in her dream, the one she now is without in her waking life. (6/9/18)
Frank Morgan, who also played James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan's on screen boss in 'The Shop around the Corner' (Ernst Lubitsch 1941) is Professor Marvel/The Wizard
Watching this movie as a middle schooler, I can see why I loved this so much as a child. Whoever made the movie, I’m glad that you gave me a great childhood ❤
This scene confused me when I was little - I thought Aunt Em was sick - didn't realize Marvel was just saying that to get a runaway to return home I did notice that he didn't seem able to read minds - Dorothy shakes her head a bit when he guesses her identity wrong lol
Looking through Dorothy's stuff while her eyes were closed is similar to the mind-reading trick the Wizard pulled by hearing peoples' stories while he was disguised as the gatekeeper, coachmen, and guard.
Our school is doing the play for this movie and this clip shows exactly how the Professor talks and what he is. This little scene shows a lot of detail
Good point. But I still think he was gently showing Dorothy an aspect of her running away that she hadn't thought of before. He didn't have to be a fortune teller to size up the situation and use his powers of persuasion to influence Dorothy into going home while thinking it was her idea.
Exactly! He made a living by reading people, so it wouldn't have been difficult. Dorothy shows up wearing a crisp, clean dress that undoubtedly been washed/ironed/starched in the past day or so. Her hair was clean and neatly done in braid/low ponytail hybrids. He knew that she couldn't have been away from home for more than an hour or so. She appeared well cared for. No signs of mistreatment, so he knew that she wasn't escaping an abusive home. He also knew that the streets would chew her up and spit her back out, so he tricked her into going back to her nice, safe home before that could happen.
@@MaskedMan66 I don't think so. French braids start at the hairline with a small amount of hair, and you add more hair to the strands as you braid down. Dorothy's hair was rolled back from the hairline to behind her ears, which is where the braided part began. I wish I knew the name of the style!
@@CadeD679 I'd always heard it identified as French braids. Maybe the style has changed in 80-odd years? Not a tonsorial person, me, so I never questioned it.
The media destroyed her. I won't ever forget her last comment before she died it was very sad. It was like she knew she didn't have much longer. She died a day or two after.
Great movie. I grew up in Kansas as a young lad. This movie would come on TV every year. Just a great movie even by today's standards. Inside his gypsy wagon scene reminds me of Pee Wee Hermans Big Adventure...the gypsy that told his fortune how she got his information from his wallet. I'm sure that scene was inspired from this great scene from The Wizard of Oz
It's nice that Frank Morgan played 5 characters in the wizard of oz, Professor Marvel/Emerald city gatekeeper/The carriage driver/The wizard's guard/ The Wizard of Oz
Every word! Had the storm not come, she would have been racing in to take care of Aunt Em ... who wouldn't have even known that she was gone yet. The storm nearly killed her, but, saved her from that humiliation!
@@CadeD679 Oh, I imagine she'd have known; one gets the impression that Dorothy'd been a good while on the road. When we see her approaching the farm, it's still a good way off.
I played as Professor Marvel and the wizard at my local theater a few years ago, and he was my personal favorite role to play. The reason why he's my personal favorite character was because even though he's a bit of a con man, he is a very good man at heart.
It's such a beautiful thing that most adults in the movie look after Dorothy and want what's best for her. Even a conman tries to talk some sense into her. The villain in the movie is a Karen 😂
That could either be an oversight on the part of the director or something very subtle. Dorothy is leaving an image of her aunt and her home behind and going back to the real things.
+Hi from Bob Maybe he was going to give it back and when he was holding it in his hand as she leaves he was probably going to say "wait, don't forget your picture" but, she ran away too fast.
+MaskedMan66 Yes, I'm sure he returned it then. While I didn't see him holding it in his hand, he must have had it in his pocket and after Dorothy said "oh Auntie Em, there's no place like home" was probably when he took it out of his pocket and said "you forgot your picture when you left" but, it just didn't show him returning it.
This really was well done, how they did this--the way how Dorothy does what she can to scuttle home, the way it seems Aunt Em really WOULD be sad, if Dorothy ran away,basically(only it's too late, naturally, by the time Dorothy gets back to the house, as the tornado has come.)
Aunt Em would have been worried and sad, no doubt about that! But, maybe not quite as frantic as she was during the storm -- after all, Dorothy's life was in real danger when they had to take shelter without her!
One of the greatest moments in cinema history is when the wind begins stirring-up as Dorothy leaves Prof. Marvel's wagon, anxious to return home after the down-on-his-luck charlatan reads her fortune in his crystal ball. There's something so eerie & portentous as that wind rises, the first inkling that a Kansas twister's on its way. I think years went by before I got the connection but it gives one a chill regardless!
I only just now realized he was making it up, I watched this movie hundreds of times as a kid and that never occurred to me. I just thought he was the real deal.
I found out that the jacket hes wearing was actually the jacket Frank L baum himself owned. I think the actor looked inside the sleeve or the collar and saw his initials and after some digging they found out that it was indeed his jacket.
"Your head aint made of straw"-obvious forshadowing...and "think you didnt have any brains dorothy!....why don't you use them!"......he had brains....but as a scarecrow....Hunk had brains but didnt use them when he was a scarecrow!
Perhaps,but then again,maybe the images really are what he sees. I mean,here she is,meeting a total stranger,and yet he claims to know everything about her,even where she lives and what her aunt's real name is(Emily,of,course.)
+MrJamieMurph4141969 You're not getting it. Marvel, like his dream counterpart the Wizard, is a total humbug. His prestidigitatory prowess is all a sham; he guesses (and luckily gets it right) at the shape of the weather vane, as well as Em's full name. The whole point of his ruse is indeed to convince Dorothy to go back home.
If you notice he takes Dorothy's basket and pulls out a picture of her and Aunt Em so he knows what she looks like, Em is a nickname for Emily, and he is making it all up so she will go home.
+karen hall That's correct. It was all a lie he was making about Aunt Em to persuade Dorothy to go home and not run away and from 3:28-3:30 he was probably checking if he persuaded her instead of wanting to travel with him to Europe and see the crowned heads. (I don't know how much of an interest Dorothy has with crowned heads but, I have a feeling she was more interested in getting as far away from Kansas as possible and go out of the country to Europe to make sure Toto was far away enough from Ms. Gulch).
@Shane Bracken That's correct and he must have lied to Dorothy when he says that he usually consults his crystal before doing anything where he only said that as a way to persuade Dorothy to go home by telling a lie that Auntie Em was sick just so she would go home. Plus when he said at the end, "what's this I thought you were going along with me" was probably his way of hoping he persuaded her to go home. Of course, it's unknown how much of an interest Dorothy has with Crowned Heads of Europe where I'm only guessing she just wanted to get as far away from Kansas as possible. Probably if Professor Marvel was going to agree to allow her to travel with him, he probably would have said "okay, hop into the wagon and sit down and make yourself comfortable" while Professor Marvel jumps up onto his horse Sylvester to pull the wagon and they would have traveled to Europe together.
This is to demonstrate that, even as the Wizard of Oz was a very good man but a very bad wizard, Professor Marvel is a very good man but a very bad fortune teller. He brings up the Auntie Em scenario to show Dorothy a side of the situation she didn't consider before running away and to let her know how her actions have affected those she left behind.
MaskedMan66 Professor Marvel is a rascally con artist but you still gotta love the guy, letting Toto steal his hot dog, "from one dog to another." without getting mad.
@@littlemikey1954 ??? Not a rascally con artist at all. He's a showman who travels from town to town earning a meager existence with his one-man circus of juggling, sleight-of-hand, magic, and illusion.
@@MaskedMan66 Not exactly. A con artist is a hustler like the characters in The Sting who bilk people out of money, but we wouldn't call a professional magician a con artist. He's an entertainer and an illusionist. I suppose part of their act is the willing suspension of disbelief on the part of the audience but I wouldn't equate that with a con which carries with it the idea of defrauding someone.
I wonder if a piece of dialogue was cut from the movie? Marvel replaces the hot dog and Dorothy questions why she wouldn't be able to travel with him to see the Crown Heads of Europe despite not establishing yet that this was asked. The cut between the two shots also makes me assume this happened.
The way she’s saying “why can’t I” is more along the lines of someone saying “why don’t you come along with me?” It’s not that they’re literally asking why not, it’s an invitation, or in Dorothy’s case, a very deferential request (using the negative shows that she isn’t very confident in herself and this is more of a hopeful shot in the dark than a request she actually thinks he will accept)
One thing puzzles me about this. They say Professor Marvel tricks her into believing her Auntie Em was falling ill, and then she runs on home. Why would he take the time to trick her, and why get her to go home?
Darkman9478 He was just making her go home so she would think that running away is not a good idea since the theme of this movie is "There's No Place Like Home" and since she said that she wants to travel the world with him and see all the crowned heads of Europe, he decided to persuade her not to come with him by saying that his crystal has to be consulted first before leaving and then lying that she fell ill. The spot where he thought she was going with him from 3:28-3:30 was probably where he was checking that he persuaded her well.
Darkman9478 Professor Marvel was probably great to encourage her to go home since she probably was starting to be a fan of him wanting to travel the world with him (maybe forever for life) since he probably would want to travel alone. If he didn't say that he has to consult his crystal before they leave, he probably would have told her to hop into the wagon and relax while he jumps onto his horse Sylvester for Sylvester to pull the wagon. Plus, he was also good to check on her at the end to make sure he still persuaded her well as soon as she woke up after getting knocked out.
He told her to close her eyes to better concentrate and then he looked through her basket and saw that picture of Dorothy with her Aunt Emma and could see that she was someone who loved Dorothy so he tried to get her to go back home.
After hundreds of times seeing this movie as a kid, it was only today, years later, that I realized that Marvel was making up the whole story about Aunt Em being sick. I honestly just assumed he was the real deal. I already knew he cared about Dorothy’s safety and well-being, but this just takes that to another level. I think part of what helps him sell this to Dorothy (and to us) is the way he narrates it. He says it like he can really see everything that’s happening, the urgency in his voice rising as Em’s “despair” deepens. He’s a total showman and at that moment he needs to use his talents for good, to convince Dorothy that she is making a huge mistake. And he puts in the performance of a lifetime. He had me fooled for years, so I should know haha...
Every single thing that happens in a good movie is put there for a specific reason. But in this movie the only character not like that seems to be Uncle Henry.
@@mobydick3895 What do you mean?
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As an adult I can honestly say I don’t remember Marvel taking the photo and observing it. My kid mind just doesn’t recall that part at all lol
Well, you know Professor Marvel is kind by the way he reacts to Toto stealing the hot dog. He says "From one dog to another, eh?"
Oh I love this.
The musical score in this film is great!!! As he says "weather vane and a running horse", you hear a few notes of The Merry Old Land of Oz.
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Herbert Stothart won an Oscar for his scoring.
I noticed that too
Professor Marvel, a convincing fortune teller and tricks Dorothy into believing that Emily was probably sick as a way for her to go back home, and yet so heartfelt the way he thinks about her. It shows how much, in a way, he does mean well.
"Poor little kid. I hope she gets home alright."
Darkman9478 Heartfelt sympathy that is missing in today's world!!!!!
@@scottmiller6495 only people with big humane hearts have that, logically speaking
Darkman9478 It’s funny how he said that line in his “normal” voice lol
Not even "in a way." He outright meant well. He used his wiles, but, not to hurt Dorothy or to take anything from her. It was just to convince her to go home before she went any further and came to any harm.
I never thought it that way
There's a storm blowing up, a whopper to speak in the vernacular of the peasantry!
It's the wicked witch (Miss Gultch) coming to kill Dorothy and her family for Toto escaping.
@Scott Hayes No, it's a common Kansas cyclone. Miss Gulch is an ordinary human being.
"Poor little kid I hope she gets home alright!!!"
What a touching scene. His talent as a showman lets him find the perfect way to get her to turn around and go home. "Poor kid, I hope she gets home all right"
I remember the 1st commercial break of the movie, during all the years this aired on TV, came right after he said that.
this film is so deep and beautiful. the older i get the more i appreciate it. i hope its a story that is still being told thousands of years from now, but how or why certain tales live or die is still fully unclear to me. why the epic of gilgamesh? i think this story is able to reach us even when we are very young, and abstractly and gracefully tell us what it means to have a heart, a brain, courage. also, an empathic insight into how other people feel about about themselves and their roles.
The story originally comes from the mind of L. Frank Baum, who wrote and published it in 1900. :-)
@@MaskedMan66 I used to think the black & white parts of the film was boring as a kid. As an adult, it’s the best!
@@Tonabillity I didn't; I loved the whole opening sequence, especially the hijinks of the farm hands.
@@MaskedMan66 You’re right, as a kid it was way too adult for me!!
Now I appreciate every moment of it!
@@Tonabillity I remember when I was little, I was very impatient during the Munchkinland sequence, wanting the "real" story to get started, but years later I got to appreciate it more and more, especially all the hard work that went into it. And each time I watch it now, I try to spot something I never did before, like the one soldier who draws a bead on the Wicked Witch with his rifle, but misses his chance.
I have been honored to meet four of the Singer Midgets while they were still with us. :-)
I used to think Marvel was a really bad guy, until I realized he was purposely conning her to save her from ruining her life.
Exactly. He was just gently pushing her to go home. And it is the moment she resolves to do so that the storm begins.
he was kind of like a doctor or psychologist.
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Miss Gultch was the wicked witch, maybe she caused the tornado to kill Dorothy and destroy her home. The storm seemed to come out of nowhere.
Wow...he's done a really good deed
Watching this movie as an adult - especially this scene - gives me a completely different perspective on it. It’s funny how different our minds view things when we’re children and when we’re adults
As children, we are completely innocent & believe everything that's told to us. As adults, we're more skeptical & tend to look at things in a different perspective.
@@decembergal yes, when i watched this film as a kid i genuinely believed what he was saying and didnt realise he was conning dorothy lol!
@@bestgrimbarianever Not to hurt her or take advantage of her, however; his intentions were 100% altruistic.
The good stories work for both children and adults, but in many times in different ways.
One of the most beautiful scenes in cinematic history.
Good to know that Toto ate well during filming. :)
Depending on how many takes they went through for that shot, she may have had a very good feed indeed! :-)
He’s a hack, a fraud, _and_ a big sweetheart. Helping a little girl to go back home to her family. And he let Toto have a free hotdog. 😊
A big sweetheart totally. Instead of taking advantage he helped someone. We could all learn a little something from Professor Marvel.
@@dtlaguy3874 Since Dorothy told him that she wants to travel with him to Europe to see the Crowned Heads, I guess he lied to her that he usually checks his crystal first before doing anything as a way of trying to persuade her not to run away and go back home where his lie was that Auntie Em was dying. Perhaps at the part when he said to Dorothy "what's this I thought you were going along with me" was his way of hoping he persuaded her to go home feeling that she wasn't still interested in traveling with him to Europe. I have a feeling if he agreed to allow Dorothy travel with him from Kansas to Europe, he probably would have said to her something like "okay, hop inside the wagon and take a seat and make yourself comfortable" while Professor Marvel would have jumped on his horse Sylvester to have the wagon pulled.
Oh, is that what he was eating?? I always seemed to think it was just a sausage. 😂
I don’t know if you’ll see my comment or not, as I’m two years late, but as you say, he’s a hack, a fraud, and also a sweetheart at the same time, trying to convince Dorothy not to run away from home. But I wonder what he would’ve said if she’d have told him the reason as to why she ran away in the first place? Which is because of Miss Gulch trying to take Toto away and then would’ve come back for him once she noticed that he got away from her?!?
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A terrific scene from one of the greatest musicals of all time. 1939 was one of the greatest years for motion pictures, atleast 10 films could have won the Best Picture Oscar. Wizard of oz was one of them!!!!!
"She's blowin up a whopper ... to speak in the vernacular of the peasantry." That's good writing. Frank Morgan was brilliant in all five roles.
"That's all, the crystal has gone dark." Judy Garland is just sublime in her reactions to what Frank Morgan is telling her of the visions in the crystal ball. Fine, instinctual actor that she was. And she could sing a bit, too.
She was a prodigy, no doubt about it.
Love the attention to detail in this movie. For example, at 1:43 the trees outside Professor Marvel's wagon are moving slightly in the breeze. There is a small, flowing stream passing underneath the bridge at the beginning of the clip.
I think that bridge was used in Gone with the Wind.
That breeze is the first stirrings of the cyclone! :-)
AKA A tornado
@@MaskedMan66 tornado
@@LaKellita Same thing.
Frank Morgan is wonderful and this is one of my favorite scenes.
Despite watching this movie all the time as a kid and knowing it nearly line for line, I watched it for the first time in probably 20 years a month ago, and Frank Morgan's performance is what I truly enjoyed, especially here. Despite everything I knew before, it's like I was watching this for the first time and appreciating it in a light I wasn't able to as a kid. Again, I knew all the lines and yet I was still laughing like it was the first time watching.
That's the quality of a great movie, and a great performance.
And that's part of why this movie has such staying power.
A great movie has important life lessons to get across to the audience. But it is important that these lessons be the great lessons of life, ones that are really important. With the Wizard of Oz, parents fall all over themselves to get their young children to watch it!
@@mobydick3895 Children need no encouragement to watch this! 🙂
Professor Marvel never guesses--he knows! [my favorite line]
Until he is the wizard, and doesn't know how to fly the balloon! "I can't come back, I don't know how it works!" what a classic, classic line!
Nobody plays The Wizard of Oz like Frank Morgan. Fine actor. This is a wonderful scene.
Way to convince Dorothy that her Aunt Em needs her at home, Professor Marvel.
My girl name is Dorothy can you come meet me today is at night can you meet me today please
Can I see your face put a picture of for me to see you probably got a dog in your house I love it come see me at the morning just call me text me back I want to come to my house my house is so so clean my mommy with nobody my mom probably let you in the house
And that Dorothy needs her family and friends.
Professor Marvel is a great fortune teller. He used his "power" to get Dorthy to go back home (she would have been killed by the twister otherwise). Most fortune tellers just tell you some bull and take your money,
My mom thinks this scene is "satanic"
@@cheneethompson5756 Tell your mom that the Prof is a charlatan using a heap of flim-flammery, and that his intentions are strictly altruistic, even Christian.
@@cheneethompson5756 If that's the case, I shan't ask what she thought of the scenes involving witches, dwarf-like creatures, flying monkeys and two inanimate objects and a wild animal coming to life and talking!
@@Extra_050 she's a jehovah witness, so they can be hypocritical
She didn't mind the wizard, but hated the witch
@@Extra_050 What's wrong with any of that, bar the Wicked Witch? And what animal "comes to life?"
Judy's doe eyes
cinderelmo right at 2:30 look at her eyes wow !!! so big and beautiful .
@WinterGirl And her voice. :-)
@@MaskedMan66 and her bodacious crapper
Too bad that most of her fanboys are gays that want to dress up like her.
I actually believed Marvel when I was younger. Now as I’m older I understand the scene
I never noticed on the side of his cart it says Balloon Exhibitionist
Dorothy noticed it, at least subconsciously! ;-)
Oh, my god! I didn’t either!
And guess what the said “wizard of oz” rode in near the end of the movie
Spoiler alert
A balloon
@@corpsescornah6524 Folks have known that since 39 years before the movie was made. ;-)
@@MaskedMan66 ok smart ass no need
"We cannot do these thing unless we reach out into the INFINITE!"
Happy birthday profesor :) Frank Morgan to 130 years . (1.6.1890-18.9.1949 59 years heart attack ) rest in peace and Happy birthday to acting heaven 😉😊🍸🥂🍺🍻🍾🍷🥃😉😊
Dorothy's dream is made up partially from the day residue that filtered into her subconscious from the events that took place the day just before she fell asleep. That's why the actors from the Kansas scenes are also in the Oz scenes, she recasts them and gives them all new identities in the dream world, then uses them to work through her Freudian issues from her waking life. They all represent parts of her psyche as well that she's trying to extinguish or gain in some way. The movie is a fascinating character study that can be analyzed through Freud and Jung's dream interpretations. Her journey to Oz becomes an internal journey where Dorothy explores parts of her mind to grow as a person. When she wakes up she has a new outlook and an energized soul from her unconscious dream world.
This scene not only uses the parallel of Marvel as a few dream characters but also his crystal ball that he sees Aunt Em in becomes the crystal ball in the Witch's castle that Dorothy sees her in in her dream.
(6/9/18)
It's nothing to do with Freud.
Absolutely! Brilliant analysis
Why does Dorothy dream about all the people she knows or met most recently EXCEPT her uncle.
He's the only one to not make an appearance in the dream sequence. He doesn't even appear with the aunt in the crystal ball scene.
@@davedee6745 Because the idea was that neither of Dorothy's actual relatives would appear in Oz, because if they were there in some capacity, her desire to get home would not be as intense. That's where the RSC stage adaptation goes wrong; it has Aunt Em become Glinda and Uncle Henry become an amalgam of the Guardian of the Gates and Omby Amby.
@@MaskedMan66 RSC?
It's frustrating when you just can't express yourself
Frank Morgan.....Priceless role
Five priceless roles!
From what I've read, Professor Marvel's jovial, friendly demeanor was pretty much the way that Frank Morgan was in real life.
I'm sorry that I never got to meet Frank Morgan..when he was still with us..Katie..I would have loved to tell him"Thanks for your wonderful screen interpretation of Frank Baum's beloved Ozian Humbug..Mr.Morgan".
@@CadeD679 In general he was, but he could also be irascible if things weren't going his way. But his co-stars, in particular Margaret Hamilton (who worked with him on another film) praised him for his generosity and talent.
@@MaskedMan66 I read that he was difficult when he was trying to stop drinking, which makes sense. Withdrawal must be horrible.
I LOVE YOU DOROTHY! SOOO VERY BEAUTIFUL, IN SOOO MANY WAYS!
"Do you know any?" XDDD
I just caught that for the first time. I'm 29.
Shawna Fleck I just caught it too now. Pretty funny joke.
Shawna Fleck I don't get it.
He's a fraud, he hasn't met the crowned heads of Europe, as advertised on his wagon.
Lol how do you know he was the one who made that advertisement? Maybe he was just born in that thing LMFAO
MediaLover194 What do expect? He's the local Snake Oil Salesman.
I love how the same actors are used in Oz, such as him as the wizard.
clampfan101 And of course, Mgt. Hamilton as the infamous Witch of the West, and Ray Bolger(scarecrow),Jack Haley(Tin Man),and Bert(can't think of his last name, who had played the cowardly lion),you know, as those three actors had also played Uncle Henry's "hired hands."
clampfan101 Yeah and I find it very clever.
She gives them new identities in her dream and uses these new personas to work out her Freudian issues as she sleeps. They all represent parts of her psyche that she yearns to come to terms with. Marvel also becomes a father figure she longs for in her dream, the one she now is without in her waking life. (6/9/18)
+MrJamieMurph4141969 Lahr.
@Henry Jackson Nothing Freudian about it.
Professor Marvel is my favorite character. He reminds me of my late uncle.
Frank Morgan, who also played James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan's on screen boss in 'The Shop around the Corner' (Ernst Lubitsch 1941) is Professor Marvel/The Wizard
"It's frustating when you just can't express yourself, and it's hard to trust enough to undress yourself"
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(This song)
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“To stand exposed and naked, in a world full of hatred, where the sick thoughts of mankind control all that’s sacred”
@@alexxccccxbbb9952 What about the sick thoughts of whoever wrote that poem?
@@MaskedMan66 what?
Watching this movie as a middle schooler, I can see why I loved this so much as a child. Whoever made the movie, I’m glad that you gave me a great childhood ❤
Such a classic one of my favorites xoxo 💜🖤💜🖤
1:37 Marvel just pulled a flame out of his pocket. Never noticed it, no big deal.
Lmfao yo 😭
@@jessiemazariegos234 One of those movies you can watch 1000 times and still see things you've never noticed.
@@ImGoingSupersonic Such as the Munchkin soldier who almost manages to shoot the Wicked Witch of the West.
Jay Electronica brought me here with better in tune with the infinite
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Same here!
Same my brotha
This scene confused me when I was little - I thought Aunt Em was sick - didn't realize Marvel was just saying that to get a runaway to return home
I did notice that he didn't seem able to read minds - Dorothy shakes her head a bit when he guesses her identity wrong lol
I never realized that either until now
@@shanerose7204 You didn't?
Looking through Dorothy's stuff while her eyes were closed is similar to the mind-reading trick the Wizard pulled by hearing peoples' stories while he was disguised as the gatekeeper, coachmen, and guard.
The Guardian of the Gates, the Cabbie, and Omby Amby were not the Wizard.
It is really beautiful. I can`t help it, but tears came here. I`m in the mood today.
frank morgan was awesome,too bad we don't have actors like him anymore.
We can still Watch it on he's to remind us of.
@@bettyottman1718 i am so glad for tcm,i get to see bogart, the rat pack,movies i use to see on flippo the early show and nite owl theater as a kid.
@@georgelee43211Oh no, I mean Frank Morgan in the wizard of oz, for his best role of Professor Marvel and The wizard.
@@bettyottman1718 Yes,That's True.
@georgelee43211 That's correct. He was great as Professor Marvel, the Gatekeeper, the Cabbie, the Guard, and the Wizard.
I could watch this movie over and over a million times
Our school is doing the play for this movie and this clip shows exactly how the Professor talks and what he is. This little scene shows a lot of detail
Dorothy is so gentle and innocent , that's why i keep her for ever in my Heart ❤️
I'm a Huge Fan and Collector from Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz 🌪🌈👠
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Me too I’m obsessed w Judy garland , starting to get unhealthy. Lmao
Judy was the perfect Dorothy for this version of the story, but it's worth mentioning that in the books, Dorothy has a whole lot more moxie!
Good point. But I still think he was gently showing Dorothy an aspect of her running away that she hadn't thought of before. He didn't have to be a fortune teller to size up the situation and use his powers of persuasion to influence Dorothy into going home while thinking it was her idea.
Exactly! He made a living by reading people, so it wouldn't have been difficult. Dorothy shows up wearing a crisp, clean dress that undoubtedly been washed/ironed/starched in the past day or so. Her hair was clean and neatly done in braid/low ponytail hybrids. He knew that she couldn't have been away from home for more than an hour or so. She appeared well cared for. No signs of mistreatment, so he knew that she wasn't escaping an abusive home. He also knew that the streets would chew her up and spit her back out, so he tricked her into going back to her nice, safe home before that could happen.
@@CadeD679 Dorothy's hairdo is called French braids. :-)
@@MaskedMan66 I don't think so. French braids start at the hairline with a small amount of hair, and you add more hair to the strands as you braid down.
Dorothy's hair was rolled back from the hairline to behind her ears, which is where the braided part began. I wish I knew the name of the style!
@@CadeD679 I'd always heard it identified as French braids. Maybe the style has changed in 80-odd years? Not a tonsorial person, me, so I never questioned it.
If only that worked on runaways
Did anyone else watch this and think how cool that wagon would be to camp out in?
1:04 "Toto thats not polite! We haven't been asked YET!" Haha! I love how she assumes they'll be asked to stay for dinner.
I think the remark reflected a hope rather than a certainty.
He's wearing the jacket of Baum in this scene.
Do you know that the costume department found it in a Second Hand Store and when the movie was over they gave back Frank Baum's Widow?
YES THE WIZARD OF OZ! BEST FILM EVER
I love Judy aka Dorothy.
67 now.all time great one#! Parents watch from heaven!!
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The media destroyed her. I won't ever forget her last comment before she died it was very sad. It was like she knew she didn't have much longer. She died a day or two after.
Great movie. I grew up in Kansas as a young lad. This movie would come on TV every year. Just a great movie even by today's standards. Inside his gypsy wagon scene reminds me of Pee Wee Hermans Big Adventure...the gypsy that told his fortune how she got his information from his wallet. I'm sure that scene was inspired from this great scene from The Wizard of Oz
It's nice that Frank Morgan played 5 characters in the wizard of oz,
Professor Marvel/Emerald city gatekeeper/The carriage driver/The wizard's guard/ The Wizard of Oz
Its so surreal
The Guardian of the Gates, Omby Amby (the Palace Guard) and the Wizard are all from the book.
"thats our farm!" Dorothy believes every word.
Every word!
Had the storm not come, she would have been racing in to take care of Aunt Em ... who wouldn't have even known that she was gone yet. The storm nearly killed her, but, saved her from that humiliation!
@@CadeD679 Oh, I imagine she'd have known; one gets the impression that Dorothy'd been a good while on the road. When we see her approaching the farm, it's still a good way off.
@@CadeD679 my name is also Cade
@@cadefilms4072 It's a good name!
Since I was little, I always wanted someone to read my past present and future.
Well, don't ask Professor Marvel; he's a humbug! :-)
@@MaskedMan66 I know what you mean after the Wizard.
I played as Professor Marvel and the wizard at my local theater a few years ago, and he was my personal favorite role to play. The reason why he's my personal favorite character was because even though he's a bit of a con man, he is a very good man at heart.
I love how she looks so much like her daughter! Her mom was so pretty!
You mean Liza?
@@MaskedMan66 yes! Liza's gorgeous liek her mom was!
@@cheneethompson5756 So is Lorna!
It's such a beautiful thing that most adults in the movie look after Dorothy and want what's best for her. Even a conman tries to talk some sense into her. The villain in the movie is a Karen 😂
Judy Garland was put on a strict diet of chicken soup, black coffee and smoking up to 80 cigarettes a day to suppress her appetite
Notice she never get's her photograph back. He puts it under his left thigh and still has it in his hand as she leaves. ~
That could either be an oversight on the part of the director or something very subtle. Dorothy is leaving an image of her aunt and her home behind and going back to the real things.
+Hi from Bob Maybe he was going to give it back and when he was holding it in his hand as she leaves he was probably going to say "wait, don't forget your picture" but, she ran away too fast.
+afriendofbean And who's to say he didn't return it when he paid the Gale farm a visit later on?
+MaskedMan66 Yes, I'm sure he returned it then. While I didn't see him holding it in his hand, he must have had it in his pocket and after Dorothy said "oh Auntie Em, there's no place like home" was probably when he took it out of his pocket and said "you forgot your picture when you left" but, it just didn't show him returning it.
+afriendofbean Likely enough.
Love Frank Morgan. Great actor, and his comic timing is perfect.
Jay Electronica anyone????
This really was well done, how they did this--the way how Dorothy does what she can to scuttle home, the way it seems Aunt Em really WOULD be sad, if Dorothy ran away,basically(only it's too late, naturally, by the time Dorothy gets back to the house, as the tornado has come.)
Aunt Em would have been worried and sad, no doubt about that! But, maybe not quite as frantic as she was during the storm -- after all, Dorothy's life was in real danger when they had to take shelter without her!
I know the type, not being understood at home, and don’t get appreciated by the others
One of the greatest moments in cinema history is when the wind begins stirring-up as Dorothy leaves Prof. Marvel's wagon, anxious to return home after the down-on-his-luck charlatan reads her fortune in his crystal ball. There's something so eerie & portentous as that wind rises, the first inkling that a Kansas twister's on its way. I think years went by before I got the connection but it gives one a chill regardless!
"Professor Marvel" also made the Witch of the West fall in love with him in Oz Great and Powerful. That was a great movie
I played the role of professor marvel 3 years ago in a play it was a wonderful experience I had the exact same lines
Dorothy visits Professor Marvel. Best scene to watch if you attend to run away from your family.
Definitely my favorite scene.
I love how the wind starts picking up as Dorothy gets up to leave. It’s very subtle and foreboding that the danger is coming. Brilliant.
The first time I saw this i genuinely thought aunt em was sick i didn't realise he was professor marvel was making it up.
Omg, me too!
I only just now realized he was making it up, I watched this movie hundreds of times as a kid and that never occurred to me. I just thought he was the real deal.
I found out that the jacket hes wearing was actually the jacket Frank L baum himself owned. I think the actor looked inside the sleeve or the collar and saw his initials and after some digging they found out that it was indeed his jacket.
L. Frank Baum was his name (his first name was Lyman, and he hated it). The story of the frock coat is apparently still up in the air.
R.I.P Judy Garland 😭
W.C. Fields was offered the role....Honestly, he NEVER could've done it justice!
"Your head aint made of straw"-obvious forshadowing...and "think you didnt have any brains dorothy!....why don't you use them!"......he had brains....but as a scarecrow....Hunk had brains but didnt use them when he was a scarecrow!
This is my role. BOI I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the wizard of Oz my favorite movie
Bit sad when Dorothy been told that Aunt Em is sick. I think Professor Marvel is making the ball thing up to stop Dorothy from running away
Perhaps,but then again,maybe the images really are what he sees. I mean,here she is,meeting a total stranger,and yet he claims to know everything about her,even where she lives and what her aunt's real name is(Emily,of,course.)
Still,at any rate,whether he's lying or telling the truth,at least he does succeed in discouraging Dorothy from running away.
+MrJamieMurph4141969 You're not getting it. Marvel, like his dream counterpart the Wizard, is a total humbug. His prestidigitatory prowess is all a sham; he guesses (and luckily gets it right) at the shape of the weather vane, as well as Em's full name. The whole point of his ruse is indeed to convince Dorothy to go back home.
If you notice he takes Dorothy's basket and pulls out a picture of her and Aunt Em so he knows what she looks like, Em is a nickname for Emily, and he is making it all up so she will go home.
+karen hall That's correct. It was all a lie he was making about Aunt Em to persuade Dorothy to go home and not run away and from 3:28-3:30 he was probably checking if he persuaded her instead of wanting to travel with him to Europe and see the crowned heads. (I don't know how much of an interest Dorothy has with crowned heads but, I have a feeling she was more interested in getting as far away from Kansas as possible and go out of the country to Europe to make sure Toto was far away enough from Ms. Gulch).
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I love the foreshadowing in the music durimg the psychic readimg when we hear the merry old lamd of oz playing in the score.
Professor Marvel is the Fortune Teller and He's the Best.
Toto? Is that you? Oh, thank god you're okay! I'm so glad you came back! But how did you escape? Thanks ever so much, Tom and Jerry!
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I love this film very much
1:04. I wonder if hot dogs back then were made with mechanically separated chicken and pork? Because that hot dog looks good asf
I used to think Marvel said Em was jumping up and down in the bed
Lol
"Dropping down."
I love how Toto just helps himself to a hotdog HAHA
They payed him alot
Scenes like this have quotes for everybody
He might not be a professional, but inside he’s a very caring man
@Shane Bracken That's correct and he must have lied to Dorothy when he says that he usually consults his crystal before doing anything where he only said that as a way to persuade Dorothy to go home by telling a lie that Auntie Em was sick just so she would go home. Plus when he said at the end, "what's this I thought you were going along with me" was probably his way of hoping he persuaded her to go home. Of course, it's unknown how much of an interest Dorothy has with Crowned Heads of Europe where I'm only guessing she just wanted to get as far away from Kansas as possible. Probably if Professor Marvel was going to agree to allow her to travel with him, he probably would have said "okay, hop into the wagon and sit down and make yourself comfortable" while Professor Marvel jumps up onto his horse Sylvester to pull the wagon and they would have traveled to Europe together.
This is to demonstrate that, even as the Wizard of Oz was a very good man but a very bad wizard, Professor Marvel is a very good man but a very bad fortune teller. He brings up the Auntie Em scenario to show Dorothy a side of the situation she didn't consider before running away and to let her know how her actions have affected those she left behind.
He was a fraud, but his intentions were good.
MaskedMan66 he was an honest fraud.
@@angelowilliams6730 Pretty much what I said. ;-)
I played professor marvel in a stage play once. great character from a great movie.
@Jonathan La Barca I did not but as for this character I had the entire outfit on including his headwear and a fake mustache lol
Congrats! I take it you played the Wizard as well? I was the Cowardly Lion many years ago. :-3
This is the saddest thing I have ever realized...because this really told the real Judy Garland her REAL FUTURE.
He never mentioned the future.
This is hard to watch, you can tell Judy Garland isn't doing well. She deserved so much better than what she got
I suppose some people can't perceive it, but to me professor Marvel is a portrait in saintliness.
Altruism, to be sure, but the man is deceitful all the same. But his heart is in the right place, given that he wants Dorothy to return to her family.
MaskedMan66 Professor Marvel is a rascally con artist but you still gotta love the guy, letting Toto steal his hot dog, "from one dog to another." without getting mad.
@@littlemikey1954 ??? Not a rascally con artist at all. He's a showman who travels from town to town earning a meager existence with his one-man circus of juggling, sleight-of-hand, magic, and illusion.
+PackerBronco Also a con artist.
@@MaskedMan66 Not exactly. A con artist is a hustler like the characters in The Sting who bilk people out of money, but we wouldn't call a professional magician a con artist. He's an entertainer and an illusionist. I suppose part of their act is the willing suspension of disbelief on the part of the audience but I wouldn't equate that with a con which carries with it the idea of defrauding someone.
1:05-1:08 I Always Loved Toto
As little girl I always loved the Wizard of Oz.
And as a grown woman?
As the man said in the book "I'm good man, but a very poor wizard." They really conveyed that in the film!
I wonder if a piece of dialogue was cut from the movie? Marvel replaces the hot dog and Dorothy questions why she wouldn't be able to travel with him to see the Crown Heads of Europe despite not establishing yet that this was asked.
The cut between the two shots also makes me assume this happened.
Because she saw the phrase "Acclaimed by the Crowned Heads of Europe" on the side of his caravan. That's why he says, "Oh, you mean the-- thing."
The way she’s saying “why can’t I” is more along the lines of someone saying “why don’t you come along with me?” It’s not that they’re literally asking why not, it’s an invitation, or in Dorothy’s case, a very deferential request (using the negative shows that she isn’t very confident in herself and this is more of a hopeful shot in the dark than a request she actually thinks he will accept)
We can’t do these things with out a glimpse into the infinite.
One thing puzzles me about this. They say Professor Marvel tricks her into believing her Auntie Em was falling ill, and then she runs on home. Why would he take the time to trick her, and why get her to go home?
So that she doesn't run away.
Darkman9478 He was just making her go home so she would think that running away is not a good idea since the theme of this movie is "There's No Place Like Home" and since she said that she wants to travel the world with him and see all the crowned heads of Europe, he decided to persuade her not to come with him by saying that his crystal has to be consulted first before leaving and then lying that she fell ill. The spot where he thought she was going with him from 3:28-3:30 was probably where he was checking that he persuaded her well.
***** Good point. I never would've guessed or thought that.
Darkman9478 Professor Marvel was probably great to encourage her to go home since she probably was starting to be a fan of him wanting to travel the world with him (maybe forever for life) since he probably would want to travel alone. If he didn't say that he has to consult his crystal before they leave, he probably would have told her to hop into the wagon and relax while he jumps onto his horse Sylvester for Sylvester to pull the wagon. Plus, he was also good to check on her at the end to make sure he still persuaded her well as soon as she woke up after getting knocked out.
He told her to close her eyes to better concentrate and then he looked through her basket and saw that picture of Dorothy with her Aunt Emma and could see that she was someone who loved Dorothy so he tried to get her to go back home.