The earliest surviving film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the 1910 silent film, also titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This 13-minute film, produced by Selig Polyscope Company, features Bebe Daniels as Dorothy.
The Wizard of Oz of 1925 was another American silent fantasy-adventure comedy film, directed by Larry Semon, who has the lead role of a Kansas farmhand disguised as the Scarecrow. This production, which is the only completed 1920s adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, stars Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman, and Curtis McHenry briefly disguised as a less "cowardly" Lion than in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer version of Baum's work, The Wizard of Oz.
In that film, Dorothy Gale (Dorothy Dwan), a Kansas farm girl, is told about her Uncle Henry (Frank Alexander) not being her uncle after all. Suddenly, a tornado blows into Kansas and whisks the farmhands and Dorothy to Oz, where Dorothy is discovered as Princess Dorothea by Prime Minister Kruel (Josef Swickard). The farmhands are disguised as a scarecrow, a tin man and lion.
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