Aunt Em (real name Emily) is a fictional character created by American author L. Frank Baum and apperars in many of the Oz books. She is the aunt of Dorothy Gale and wife of Uncle Henry who is hardworking farmer. She lives together with them on a very small and isolated farm in the midst of the sun baked prairies of early 1900's Kansas. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), she is described as having been a "young, pretty wife" when she arrived at Uncle Henry's farm, but having been "greyed" by her life there, implying that she appears older than one might expect from her chronological age. Baum tells us that when Dorothy first came to live with her, Em would "scream and press her hand upon her heart" when startled by Dorothy's merry laughter, and she appears rather emotionally distant to the child at the beginning of the story. However, after Dorothy is restored to her at the very end of the book, we see her true nature: she cries out, "My darling child!" and covers her niece with kisses.
There is no question about Dorothy's love for her aunt. Indeed, after knocking her heels together three times, Dorothy's request to the charmed Silver Shoes is exactly: "Take me home to Aunt Em! "
, 1h28 OriginUSA GenresComedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical ThemesFilms about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Le pays d'Oz, Musical films, Children's films ActorsAshanti, Quentin Tarantino, Queen Latifah, David Alan Grier, Jeffrey Tambor, Kelly Osbourne Rating51% Dorothy Gale (Ashanti) is an orphaned teenage girl living in a trailer park in Kansas. Her Aunt Em (Queen Latifah) and Uncle Henry (David Alan Grier) own a diner, to which Dorothy works for room and board. Her dream of becoming a singer is slim, but when waiting on some truckers Dorothy overhears that the Muppets are conducting a cross-country show called "Star Hunt" and are looking for a backup singer. Aunt Em disapproves, but with Uncle Henry's best wishes, she goes to the audition. However, the Muppets are about to end the audition, and Dorothy only manages to give them a demo CD that she created beforehand. In returning home, the civil defense sirens sound as a tornado is headed for Dorothy's trailer park. When Aunt Em and Uncle Henry run into the county storm shelter for safety, Dorothy hurries back to her family's mobile home to get Toto, her pet prawn. She does not make it out in time, and the two are swept by the tornado across the vast fields of Kansas. When Dorothy climbs out of the wreckage, she finds that Toto (Pepé the King Prawn) can talk and that she is no longer in Kansas.
, 1h28 Directed byDon Bluth, Hal Sutherland OriginUSA GenresFantasy, Musical, Animation ThemesFilms about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Le pays d'Oz, Children's films ActorsMilton Berle, Herschel Bernardi, Paul Ford, Don Messick, Margaret Hamilton, Paul Lynde Rating57% After a tornado in Kansas causes a loose gate to knock Dorothy unconscious, she re-appears in the Land of Oz with Toto, and encounters a talking Signpost (voiced by Jack E. Leonard), whose three signs point in different directions, all marked "Emerald City". They later meet Pumpkinhead (voiced by Paul Lynde), the unwilling servant of antagonist Mombi. Toto chases a cat to a small cottage where Dorothy is captured by Mombi's pet crow (voiced by Mel Blanc) and Mombi (voiced by Ethel Merman) herself. Pumpkinhead sneaks into the house in Mombi's absence, and discovers her creation of green elephants, to use as her army to conquer the Emerald City. Pumpkinhead frees Dorothy, and they flee. After finding Dorothy gone, Mombi threatens that their warning the Scarecrow will not help when her green elephants "come crashing through the gate".
, 1h20 Directed byLarry Semon OriginUSA GenresComedy, Fantasy ThemesFilms about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Le pays d'Oz, Children's films ActorsLarry Semon, Bryant Washburn, Dorothy Dwan, Virginia Pearson, Oliver Hardy, Charles Murray Rating49% A toymaker (Semon) reads L. Frank Baum's book to his granddaughter.
The Land of Oz is ruled by Prime Minister Kruel (Josef Swickard), aided by Ambassador Wikked (Otto Lederer), Lady Vishuss (Virginia Pearson), and the Wizard (Charles Murray), a "medicine-show hokum hustler". When the discontented people, led by Prince Kynd (Bryant Washburn), demand the return of the princess, who disappeared while a baby many years before, so she can be crowned their rightful ruler, Kruel has the Wizard distract them with a parlor trick: making a female impersonator (Frederick Ko Vert) appear out of a seemingly empty basket. Kruel sends Wikked on a mission.