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Finding Dorothy
Finding Dorothy
Author: Elizabeth Letts
Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that MGM Studios is adapting her late husband’s masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank’s passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780593158388
ISBN-10: 0593158385
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 348
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 8
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Intertwining story of the life of Frank Baum who wrote The Wizard of Oz and his wife Maud Baum whose mother was a famous suffragette and the making of the movie in 1939. Beginning in late 1800s, the Baums lived in NY, then staked a claim in South Dakota, then moved to Chicago where he was in sales before he wrote the book. Later they moved to Hollywood. In 1939, twenty years after he died, MGM made the movie with Judy Garland. Maud Baum visited the set often to try to keep the movie script true to her husband's story. Apart from those broad outlines which are true, I'm not sure how much of the rest of the book was fiction rather than based in fact but it was a good story about interesting times.


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