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NOW IT CAN BE TOLD – all the hush-hush secrets THEY didn’t want you to know about THAT so-called “fairy tale”!
Child star Shirley Temple was the first choice to play Dorothy and sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the classic film “The Wizard of Oz”!
That’s just one of the shocking secrets about the beloved 1939 movie revealed by authors Jay Scarfone and William Stillman in their blockbuster new book, “The Wizard of Oz, The Official 75th Anniversary Companion”.
In addition, legendary kid-hater W.C. Fields was the original choice to play the Wizard, the Wicked Witch of the West would have been super-sexy – and Toto would have been a man in a dog costume!