{"id":2021,"date":"2009-04-03T03:58:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T08:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2009-04-03T03:58:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T08:58:33","slug":"some-people-go-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2021","title":{"rendered":"Some People Go Both Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2009\/03\/31\/movie-trivia-the-wizard-of-oz\/\">Movie Trivia: <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This one sounds like a total urban legend, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/movies\/films\/ozcoat.asp\">Snopes<\/a> says it\u2019s true<\/strong>. The costume designers were looking for a very fancy coat for Professor Marvel \u2013 the Wizard\u2019s Kansas counterpart \u2013 but one that had gotten quite shabby. Some of the crew went to a secondhand shop and bought a bunch of coats to go through; Frank Morgan (the actor who played the Wizard), the director and the wardrobe people selected one out of the bunch that seemed perfect. It had a velvet collar but the nap was worn off of the velvet and it was looking a little worse for the wear. It even fit Morgan just right. Morgan was wearing the coat one afternoon and discovered a label that said \u201cL. Frank Baum.\u201d The coat had originally been made for Baum in Chicago \u2013 the tailor verified it, and Baum\u2019s widow did as well. She was given the coat after the movie wrapped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie Trivia: The Wizard of Oz This one sounds like a total urban legend, but Snopes says it\u2019s true. The costume designers were looking for a very fancy coat for Professor Marvel \u2013 the Wizard\u2019s Kansas counterpart \u2013 but one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2021\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}