Behind The Scenes Secrets: The Wizard Of Oz

Ogden Nash Screenplay?

Ogden Nash is a well-known American writer and poet. He was also a humorist and often made pun like rhymes in writing. Perhaps this was why he was the one to originally write a screenplay for The Wizard of Oz. Although, his script was never to see the light of day. Instead, a screenplay by writers Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf was used. Despite his script not being used, Ogden is still remembered warmly for his writing and even had a postage stamp named after him in 2002. He died at the age of sixty-eight in 1971 after getting a bacterial infection which exacerbated his Crohn’s disease.