FREE THE RUBY SLIPPERS PDF Keir Alexander | 432 pages | 21 Aug 2014 | Little, Brown Book Group | 9781472108081 | English | London, United Kingdom Ruby Slippers Locations: Where to See Them | Marriott TRAVELER Because of their iconic stature, [1] the ruby slippers are among the most valuable items of film memorabilia. The Ruby Slippers pairs are known to have survived; one pair was stolen from a museum in and recovered in However, the color of the shoes was changed to red to take advantage of the new Technicolor film process used in big-budget Hollywood films of the era. Film screenwriter Noel Langley is credited with the idea. In the MGM film, The Ruby Slippers adolescent farm girl named Dorothy played by Judy Garlandher dog Totoand their The Ruby Slippers are swept away from Kansas The Ruby Slippers a tornado and taken to the magical Land of Oz. The house falls on and kills The Ruby Slippers Wicked Witch of the Eastfreeing The Ruby Slippers Munchkins from The Ruby Slippers tyranny. Glinda the Good Witch of the North arrives via magic bubble and shows Dorothy the dead woman's two feet visibly sticking out from under the house wearing the ruby slippers. When the Wicked Witch of The Ruby Slippers West comes to claim her dead sister's shoes, Glinda magically transfers them to Dorothy's feet. Glinda tells Dorothy to keep tight inside of them and never take them off, as the slippers must be very powerful or the Wicked Witch would not want them so badly. Throughout the rest of the film, the The Ruby Slippers Witch schemes to obtain the shoes. When she captures Dorothy, she tries to take the slippers, but receives a painful shock. The Wicked Witch then realizes that the slippers will only come off if the wearer is dead, so she decides to kill Dorothy. Before she does, however, Dorothy accidentally splashes her with a bucket of water, causing her to melt away. At the end, it is revealed that Dorothy can return home by simply closing her eyes, clicking the heels of the slippers together three times and repeating the phrase, "There's no place like home. The so-called "Arabian test pair" was "a wildly jeweled, Arabian motif, with curling toes and heels. The red bugle beads used to simulate rubies proved too heavy, so they were mostly replaced with sequinsabout 2, for each shoe. It is believed that at least six or seven pairs of the final design were made. According to producer Mervyn LeRoy"We must have had five or ten pairs of those shoes". Rhys Thomas speculates that they were likely made by Joe Napoli of the Western Costume Company, [9] and not all at once, but as the need arose. Garland requested one pair a half-size larger, as her feet would become slightly swollen in the afternoon from the rigors of morning rehearsals and filming. At the time, many movie The Ruby Slippers used plain white silk shoes The Ruby Slippers they were The Ruby Slippers and easy to dye. It is likely that most of the shoes worn by female characters in The Wizard of Oz were plain Innes shoes with varying heel heights, dyed to match each costume. There is an embossed gold or silver stamp or an embroidered cloth label bearing the name of the company inside each right shoe. To create the ruby slippers, the shoes were dyed red, then burgundy sequined organza overlays were attached to each shoe's upper and heel. The film's early three-strip Technicolor The Ruby Slippers required the sequins to The Ruby Slippers darker than most The Ruby Slippers sequins found today; bright red sequins would have appeared orange on screen. The stones and beads were sewn to the bows, then to the organza- covered shoe. Three pairs of the surviving slippers had orange felt glued to their soles to deaden the sound of Garland dancing on the Yellow Brick Road. It is theorized that Garland wore one primary pair during shooting. One pair, known as "the People's Shoes", is on public display at the Smithsonian Institution. According to Smithsonian magazine, however, the shoes do not belong together; their actual mates are the mismatched pair left sized 5C, right 5BC that was stolen in and recovered in Another pair, the close-up or insert shoes, is in best shape of all, appears The Ruby Slippers be better made, has no orange felt on the soles and has " 7 Judy Garland" written in the lining. According to the Library of Congress The Ruby Slippers, "it is widely believed that they were used primarily for close-ups and possibly the climactic scene where Dorothy taps her heels together. The last known pair was, some believe, [ citation needed ] made for Bobbie Koshay, Garland's stunt double. However, some believe this pair may have been the second pair created, therefore explaining the "Double" in the lining, but still worn by Garland and Koshay. Also, Garland can be seen wearing this pair in photos taken after the film's primary shooting was finished in Garland is not wearing the slippers in one film sequence. As trees pelt the Scarecrow with apples, Garland can be briefly glimpsed wearing a black shoe on her right foot. For many years, movie studios were careless with old props, costumes, scripts, and other materials, unaware of or indifferent to their increasing value as memorabilia. It was he who found the slippers in February or March while helping to set up a mammoth auction of MGM props and wardrobe. One pair became the The Ruby Slippers of the auction. Warner kept the best pair for himself, size 5B, [13] and apparently sold the rest. Brent Glassthe director of the museum, appeared on the January 23, The Oprah Winfrey Show with the slippers and informed Oprah Winfrey that "they were worn by Judy Garland during her dance routines on the Yellow Brick Road because there's felt on the bottom of these slippers". Another pair was originally owned by a Tennessee woman named Roberta Bauman —who got them by placing second in a National Four Star Club The Ruby Slippers the Best Movies of " contest. They were visible at the ride's debut in They were sold to David Elkouby and his partners, who own memorabilia shops in Hollywood. Elkouby and Co. The pair Warner kept, the "Witch's Shoes", was in The Ruby Slippers best condition. Two weeks after Landini bought his slippers, this pair resurfaced and was offered privately through Christie's to the under-bidder of the Bauman shoes, Philip Samuels of St. Louis, Missouri. He has used his shoes for The Ruby Slippers raising for children's charities, as well as lending them to the Smithsonian when their slippers are cleaned, repaired or previously on tour. Auction house Profiles in History The Ruby Slippers that this pair would be the The Ruby Slippers of its December 15—17, Icons of Hollywood auction. The very elaborate curled-toe "Arabian" pair was owned by actress and memorabilia preservationist Debbie Reynolds. She acknowledged she got them from Kent Warner. The ruby slippers play an integral role in the Walt Disney Pictures film Return to Ozfor which Disney had to obtain rights from MGM to use reproductions in the film. No matter what was done, the stones kept falling off during filming. Being little girls, actresses Fairuza Balk who played Dorothy and Emma Ridley who played Princess Ozmasimply could not keep from playing, skipping and tapping their heels, so eventually they were required to take off the slippers between takes. Effects were The Ruby Slippers added in The Ruby Slippers production to give the slippers their magical glow. Simple, red grosgrain ribbon The Ruby Slippers additional stones were used for the bows. Seven pairs were made for the filming: two pairs, size three for Ridley, three pair size unknown for Balk and two men's size 11 for the Nome King played by actor Nicol Williamson. InWalt Disney Productions gave away a pair of slippers to promote the film. While it is likely that Western would have been contracted to make some of The Wizard of Oz' s many costumes, no records of the original slippers exist to either validate or disprove their claim. Into commemorate the movie's 50th anniversary, Western produced the only authorized reproductions. Hand- lasted on Judy Garland's original foot mold and completely sequined and jeweled, the reproduction slippers were nearly identical to the originals. Super Mario Bros. An imitation pair of ruby slippers appeared in the movie The Master of Disguise. Another pair appeared in an Oz sequence in the cult comedy Kentucky Fried Movie. Reproductions were also featured in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian The Ruby Slippers, in which character Kahmunrah tosses them away after discovering that the rubies are fake. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of The Wizard of Ozthe Harry Winston jewellery company created a size-four pair of slippers using "about 25 carats of diamonds and 1, carats of rubies". The replica slippers came in Judy Garland's size of 5B and had her name written inside the shoe. The production was limited to numbered pairs worldwide which included an acrylic display case and a numbered plaque. The Ruby Slippers only do they retain their movie-inspired ability to repel the Wicked Witch of the West's touch, as well as the capability to teleport their user and an unspecified number of companions to any location desired, but they also demonstrate numerous other attributes and capabilities as well.