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Most of Garland’s films are strikingly void of musical numbers that exist purely for their own sake. Her talents as an actor and singer would shape the movie musical for decades.
Jacqueline Wilson is reinventing a Enid Blyton’s classic, but can new authors do justice to old favourites?
Today’s stories embrace the monster — and explain how she was created.
Dorothy’s slippers, worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, have long been celebrated as a ‘queer object’. With one pair recently restored at a price of $300,000, do they deserve such adulation?
The 1939 classic has influenced more films than any other film before or since.
Lyman Frank Baum’s classic allegory is a reminder that the populists have been on the march before.
Were evil witches really stealing children in the 17th century?
When most people think of book censorship, they imagine political regimes and potentially book burning in Nazi Germany. What is little considered is that most books that have been challenged or banned are books for young people.
Few, if any, contemporary costume designers are household names. Some occasionally capture the zeitgeist and break through from big (or small) screen to mainstream fashion – think Catherine Martin and…
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