WIZARD OF OZ, THE (1939) Publicity group shot

[Los Angeles: MGM, 1939]. Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) glossy silver gelatin sepia-tinted photo. With 1939 Loew’s Inc copyright at lower left, bottom edge is well worn along blank white margin as is some of the right-side margin, with two areas of emulsion missing in blank white margin and creasing at top right corner. Very good.

Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley and Ray Bolger in their career-defining roles create a spooked scenario as they pose for a publicity photo. This and other photos of this type were taken near the end of principal photography on Feb. 25, 1939. The Kansas sequences were being filmed under King Vidor’s direction and would continue into March.