who played the scarecrow in the wizard of oz 1939
Ray Bolger
title: Ray Bolger text: Ray Bolger Raymond Wallace Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) was an American film and television actor, vaudevillian, TV presenter, singer, dancer (particularly of tap) and stage performer (particularly musical theatre) who started in the silent film era. He was a major Broadway performer in the 1930s and beyond (see below). He is best known for his role as the Scarecrow and his Kansas counterpart farm worker "Hunk" in MGM's classic "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) and the villainous Barnaby in Walt Disney's musical fantasy "Babes in Toyland". He was also the host of his eponymous television show, title: Scarecrow text: the Scarecrow of Oz", by Ray Bolger in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz", and by Michael Jackson in the 1978 musical film adaptation "The Wiz". Worzel Gummidge, a scarecrow who came to life in a friendly form, first appeared in series of novels by Barbara Euphan Todd in the 1930s and later in a popular television adaptation. The Scarecrow is the alter ego of the Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn, the smuggler hero in a series of novels written by Russell Thorndike. The story was made into the movie "Doctor Syn" in 1937, and again in 1962 as "Captain title: Buddy Ebsen text: have been a reason filmmaker Walt Disney chose Ebsen to be filmed dancing in front of a grid as an aid to animating Mickey Mouse's dancing in Disney's 1929 to 1939 Silly Symphonies animated short films. When Ebsen turned down studio head Louis B. Mayer's offer of an exclusive MGM contract, Mayer warned him that he would never work in Hollywood again. Nonetheless, MGM did cast Ebsen as the Scarecrow in its 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz". Ebsen then swapped roles with actor Ray Bolger, who was originally cast as the Tin Man. Bolger wanted to play the Scarecrow, title: Lee Dixon (actor) text: Lee Dixon (actor) Lee Dixon (January 22, 1914 – January 8, 1953) was an actor in 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in Hollywood musicals and other films, as well as on the Broadway stage. Lee Dixon is best remembered for creating the role of Will Parker in the original Broadway production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" In the summer of 1942, Dixon created the role of the Scarecrow, at The Municipal Opera Association of St. Louis, in the first ever stage production of "The Wizard of Oz" to use the songs from the 1939 MGM film. Evelyn Wyckoff title: The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) text: The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Widely considered to be one of the greatest films in cinema history, it is the best-known and most commercially successful adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming (who left production to take over direction on the troubled "Gone with the Wind" production). It stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, alongside Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton, with Charley Grapewin, Pat