Originally Posted by
sup_fan
in the 1939 movie the role of Aunt Em isn't, technically, large. Clara Blandick didn't have pages and pages of lines. but what she had was highly effective. how she stood up to Almira Gulch and her panic over losing Dorothy in the storm. Plus how she was distracted from dorothy as they were working on the farm. You got the sense that this was a REAL family. busy, harried, loving, stern, caring. You can easily understand this teenager feeling like the world is against her, even when they do truly care. and then you understand her goal of returning home from oz
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