These last two days were devoted to the opening scenes of the sequence, featuring Dorothy's entrance and her initial meeting with Glinda (Billie Burke).  These were the last scenes of the extensive sequence to be shot, ending about two weeks of filming on that fantastic set.

This version was filmed but ultimately deleted when a less "noisy" version was re-recorded in 1947. This early version was the film's original opening. "Manuela" sings about her fantasies of the pirate "Mack the Black." A short clip of this is in the trailer.

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Everything happens for a reason, as they say, and the result is we have the 1954 masterpiece.

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This performance gave Judy the idea of playing the role on the big screen, which she finally did in 1954. Judy originally went to MGM (her home studio at the time) to adapt the story into a dramatic musical, but they felt the subject matter was too adult for her image as "America's Sweetheart."

The green makeup had copper in it, resulting in her being so badly burned that she was immediately rushed to the hospital and out of the film until mid-February. She suffered first-degree burns on her face and second-degree burns on her hands, per an MGM memo dated January 5, 1939.

Everything was fine until after lunch, when the scene was filmed again. The trap door on the floor of the stage that contained an elevator-type rigging to lower Hamilton didn't work correctly, and she was severely burned.

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