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Fact #185546

When:

24021938

Short story:

Entertainment trade newspaper Variety reports that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) has bought the rights to adapt L. Frank Baum's successful children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for the screen, and that the studio has cast 16-year-old Judy Garland in the film's central role of Dorothy Gale.