There's nothing quite like seeing The Wizard of Oz for the first time ... He was perfect for the Cowardly Lion. Frank Morgan got the role of the Wizard after W.C. Fields demanded too much money.

The actor Frank Morgan (1890-1949) will be remembered for time and eternity as the great and powerful Oz or, rather, the bumbling but loquacious humbug puttering behind the curtain in Victor Fleming’s ...