Thirty years before MGM’s film, author L. Frank Baum had already made his version for the screen. It was a spectacular flop. Baum failed at everything but writing the books that made him famous – The Wizard of Oz and its umpteen sequels. Studio 360’s Eric Molinsky has the story of this man behind the curtain.
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