Imagining Oz’s Auntie Em as an Irish emigrant in Chicago
‘The challenge was to see why had Em been changed so much?’
Clara Blandick, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton and Charley Grapewin in the 'The Wizard of Oz', 1939. Photo: Getty
“Each time this story reaches a new generation, it sparks something new. There’s scope within the original to keep adding – and each new thing keeps enhancing what’s there”
So says Hazel Gaynor of her new book, Before Dorothy – an origin story for Dorothy’s Auntie Em from The Wizard of Oz.
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