Everyone loves "The Wizard of ... there were "Oz" plays, movies, board games, dolls, toys and newspaper comic strips. Baum was, in this respect, a kind of proto-Disney. But this, too, didn't ...

To be sure, Disney had nothing to do with the original film version of The Wizard of Oz, but they were able to obtain the rights to the novels by L. Frank Baum. Rather than remake The Wizard of Oz ...