Episode 6: The Making of “The Wizard of Oz”

08/03/23 • 111 min

“The Wizard of Oz” is considered today to be the most watched movie of all time, but this glamorous, fantastical, universally beloved film was the product of a shoot that was anything but. In this episode, we will examine the story behind the making of this Old Hollywood staple that, for the last eight decades, has managed to speak to the inner child in all of us.

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Minisode 1: The Wrong Door Raid

It all started when the skirt of a famous white dress was blown up by the breeze of a subway grate. This classic movie scene would kickstart a chain of events that drove a jealous ex-husband to commit an accidental home invasion which inadvertently led to the government crackdown of a tabloid magazine. Yes, you read that correctly. In the first ever TPGS minisode, we will take a look at the case of The Wrong Door Raid, the 1954 blunder made by pals Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra as they attempted to catch DiMaggio’s ex-wife, Marilyn Monroe, with another man.

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Episode 7: The Making of “Psycho”

Once deemed “impossible for films”, Robert Bloch’s novel of a hotel proprietor with serious mommy issues was turned into one of the greatest horror movies of all time by Alfred Hitchcock — a feat he accomplished without the help of a major studio. From this unlikely success story came a film that both terrified audiences and elevated the horror genre, but the road to “Psycho” was fraught with obstacles. In this episode, we will cross over into the world of true crime as we explore everything from the terrifying killer who served as the inspiration for Norman Bates to all of the roadblocks Hitchcock came up against as he set out to make a film so scary that it would forever become a part of our collective consciousness...especially when we’re in the shower. "Welcome to Horrorland" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/