Dorothy Gale is a fictional character and an adolescent heroine created by the American author L. Frank Baum. Dorothy first appears as the main protagonist in Baum's classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). She also reappears in most of its sequels. In addition, she is the most familiar character from the Oz books and is used as the focal point in various adaptations, most notably played by late actress Judy Garland in the classic 1939 musical movie adaptation of the first Oz book, The Wizard of Oz, (and later portrayed by then child actress Fairuza Balk in Walt Disney's 1985 fantasy film Return to Oz, which was a semi-sequel to the 1939 movie as both characters in each version wear Ruby Slippers instead of Silver Shoes like in Baum's original story).
Dorothy owns a small pet dog called Toto, whom she loves dearly and who serves strictly as a sidekick companion, loyally accompanying her on the majority of her adventures. Throughout the series, the universe of Oz steadily becomes more familiar to her than her own homeland in Kansas. Eventually, Dorothy also becomes best friends with Oz's rightful ruler, the child Queen Princess Ozma. Indeed, in Baum's sixth Oz book The Emerald City of Oz (1910), Dorothy and Toto leave Kansas behind to permanently live in a lavish apartment suite within the Emerald City's Royal Palace, but only after Dorothy's Aunt Em and Uncle Henry have settled in Oz with them. Unable to pay the mortgage on the new farmhouse that had to be replaced due to the first house being swept away by a cyclone in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy arranged with Ozma to bring her folks along in order to escape their financial troubles. Ozma ultimately proclaims Dorothy as an official princess of Oz, thus being greatly loved and adored by the Ozians. From thereafter Dorothy is often seen with Ozma, as the two young girls become nearly inseparable.
, 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.
, 28minutes Directed byThomas Bliss OriginUSA GenresFantasy ThemesChildren's films ActorsMichael Gross, Janice Kawaye Rating71% On an ocean voyage bound for Australia with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale and Toto are swept overboard in a storm. Dorothy manages to climb in with a hen who had also fallen into the sea.
, 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.