32. Coverage in the New York Times
Yes, you heard it right. They managed to get a write up in one of the world’s biggest newspapers.
In 1939 The Wizard of Oz made it big time, receiving a review in the well respected New York Times.
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It stated:
“It is all so well-intentioned, so genial and so gay that any reviewer who would look down his nose at the fun-making should be spanked and sent off, supperless, to bed.”