Raymond Wallace Bolger was an American actor, dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and stage performer who started his movie career in the silent-film era.
Bolger in 1942
Bolger as the Scarecrow
Bolger in a publicity photo for The Bell Telephone Hour, 1963
Ray and Gwendolyn Bolger's grave at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). An adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind. It stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, while others made uncredited contributions. The music was composed by Harold Arlen and adapted by Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Edgar "Yip" Harburg.
Theatrical release poster
Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale and Terry as Toto
Left to right: The Cowardly Lion, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man
Judy Garland as Dorothy