“The Wizard of Oz (M. G. M.) should settle an old Hollywood controversy: whether fantasy can be presented on the screen as successfully with human actors as with cartoons. ("The New Pictures," August 21, 1939)”

— Whittaker Chambers

TIME magazine (1939-1948)

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Defected Communist spy 1901–1961

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