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Really, "Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead" was NOT in the movie as it aired tonight on TCM. Dorothy douses the Scarecrow with water, and accidentally, she also douses the witch with water. The witch withers away and dies, and Dorothy thinks at first that the witch's guard is angry with her. Then she realizes that the witch's guard is delighted with what she's done, but there was no DING, DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD song, not tonight. The movie aired in less than two hours, and I recall it being quite a bit longer. I know that TCM is very careful about showing movies in their entirety, so I find the c
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As Dr. Ament pointed out tonight during the 8 p.m. introduction to "The Wizard of Oz" with Ben Mankowitz, when Judy Garland sings "Over the Rainbow," she interacts with her environment at the same time that she contemplates leaving it. What a great insight, one that I would not have thought of myself. Question: what happened to "Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead"? Did I really just watch a truncated version of the movie? It did seem to be moving along really quickly, but I didn't know that TCM allows for the editing of any movies, much less a classic movie like "The Wizard of Oz."
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Until now, my only perception of Jeanette MacDonald came from the way that Judy Garland pokes fun of her during the concert that she performed with a very young Liza Minnelli at the London Palladium during the late 1960s. Until I watched the second Daily Dose of Delight, I had no idea why Garland clearly had no use for MacDonald. Now I understand completely: MacDonald technically may have had a fine operatic voice, but she had no idea about how to reach an audience emotionally, as Garland (and Minnelli) did so powerfully.