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The Dreamer of Oz is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jack Bender released in USA on 10 december 1990 with John Ritter
The Dreamer of Oz (1990)
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Add to a movie listThe Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story is a 1990 television film that stars John Ritter as Lyman Frank Baum, the man who wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and thirteen of the other Oz books. Also starring in this TV movie was Annette O'Toole as Baum's supportive wife, Maud and Rue McClanahan as Baum's tough mother-in-law, Matilda Gage. John's son, Jason Ritter, makes his debut in this telefilm as Harry Neal Baum.
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The film depicts how L. Frank Baum came to create one of the much loved fairy tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while undergoing professional and personal failures.Actors
John Ritter
(L. Frank Baum)
Annette O'Toole
(Maud Gage Baum)
Rue McClanahan
(Matilda Joslyn Gage)
Charles Haid
(Al Badham / Cowardly Lion)
David Schramm
(W.W. Denslow)
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