Google Doodle Celebrates Wizard Of Oz
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Over The Search Box, Google Doodle Celebrates Wizard Of Oz
IT'S PROBABLY JUST THE INTERNET BEHEMOTH'S WAY OF REMINDING US where we'd be without its Maps, but Google celebrates the 71st anniversary of The Wizard Of Oz today with a doodle depicting Dorothy, Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow marching toward Emerald City.
The cherished film classic about a little girl finding home inside her premiered in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin on August 12, 1939 at the Strand Theatre.
The musical takes us on a technicolored trip over the rainbow to a land populated by midgets and magic; where flying monkeys and evil witches impede our deepest wishes -- until we find what we've been searching for deep inside ourselves.
(And having a pair of magic ruby slippers doesn’t hurt either.)
The movie stars Judy Garland when she was 17 and won an Academy Award for best original song, Over The Rainbow. The Library of Congress calls the movie the “most watched film in history.”
The movie, based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, reminds us that home is inside of us.
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