Meanwhile, in Kansas, Dorothy ( Dorothy Dwan) lives on a farm with her relatives. 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. In the story 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'. The farmhands are disguised as a scarecrow, a tin man and lion.Ī toy-maker (Semon) reads L. Suddenly a tornado blows into Kansas and whisks the farmhands and Dorothy to Oz, where Dorothy is discovered as Princess Dorothea by Kruel ( Josef Swickard). In the film, Dorothy Gale ( Dorothy Dwan), a Kansas farm girl is told a story about Uncle Henry ( Frank Alexander) not being her uncle after all. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, costars Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman in a portion of the film, 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 (1939 film). This production, which is the only completed 1920s adaptation of L. The Wizard of Oz is a 1925 American silent fantasy-adventure comedy film directed by Larry Semon, who also performs in the lead role as a Kansas farmhand and later in the story disguised as the Scarecrow.

The Wizard of Oz by Deidre S. Laiken