The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer. Widely considered to be one of the greatest films in American history, it is the best - known and most commercially successful adaptation of L. Frank Baum 's 1900 children 's book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, alongside Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton, with Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe and Clara Blandick, Terry (billed as Toto), and the Singer Midgets as the Munchkins.
when did wizard of oz movie come out
1939