Buddy Ebsen is well known for his role on "The Beverly Hillbillies," but the actor almost had an even more iconic role: a ...

For decades, the story of Buddy Ebsen, the original choice to play the Tin Man in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, has lived in a strange space between fact and folklore. Online retellings often frame ...

The Wizard of Oz is so iconic, it’s amazing to think it was almost a very different film. The final version of the movie features Ray Bolger in the role of the Scarecrow. Snopes reports that role was ...

Buddy Ebsen was a hoofer-turned-actor who danced with Shirley Temple in the movies but achieved his greatest success on television as the folksy Clampett family patriarch on "The Beverly Hillbillies" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The internet wants to make such a scandal of this," Fricke says. "'They tried to kill the Tin Man. They tried to kill the Witch.