The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (1990)

Original title

The Dreamer of Oz

Directed by

Jack Bender

Genre

biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film tells the story of L. Frank Baum as seen through the memory of his widow Maud. It follows how he overcame personal and professional struggles to write The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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What happens

The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story is a 1990 American made-for-television biographical film starring John Ritter as Lyman Frank Baum, the author who wrote the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and thirteen other Oz books. Also starring in it were Annette O'Toole as Baum's supportive wife, Maud, and Rue McClanahan as Baum's tough mother-in-law, Matilda Gage. The film is told as a flashback from the point of view of L. Frank Baum's widow, Maud Gage Baum. It tells how her husband came to create The Wonderful Wizard of Oz while undergoing and eventually overcoming professional and personal failures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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