A real-life witch has revealed the one spell she refuses to cast – insisting “it’s wrong.” Lindsay Squire, 41, has been a ...

Although 1939's The Wizard of Oz gives the Wicked Witch of the West a lot more powers, 2024's Wicked does a much better job of showing how powerful Elphaba is.

Those Wicked Witches of the West have little in common with the one that L. Frank Baum created in his 1900 children's classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Baum's witch wasn't green, for starters ...

Long before the new movie "Wicked" made a sympathetic character of the Wicked Witch of the West, she was played by actress Margaret Hamilton in the classic film, The Wizard of Oz. But it was not ...

No witch trying to shove Hansel and Gretel into the oven. Baum didn't want that kind of witch. So he and Denslow tamed her. Not least by making her, in the illustrations, just Dorothy's size.

For Gregory Maguire, the author of the book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, on which the film was based, it’s a long way from the Oz he first dreamed up nearly three ...

The movie follows the musical and book's plot where Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, didn't start out wicked. She was ostracized in Oz for her green skin tone from an early age.

MARGARET HAMILTON: (As the Wicked Witch of the West) I'll get you, my pretty. And your little dog, too (laughter). ULABY: The witch disappears in a puff of orange smoke, but the fire was all too real.

It was Margaret Hamilton's unforgettable performance, in the 1939 film, that made The Wicked Witch of the West a central Oz character. As she has remained, ever since.