Rhys Thomas, the author of The Ruby Slippers of Oz, wrote that the shoes have seen "more twists and turns than the Yellow ...

The red sequined shoes highlighted the vivid color of the ... which Elphaba summarily rejects. Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly 's free newsletter to get the latest trailers ...

But because the film was created in technicolor, the studio wanted to be able to show various shades, such as the red shoes.” Tazewell created his own iteration for the movie — a silver pair ...

As for why the slippers are ruby red in The Wizard of Oz movie, screenwriter Noel Langley reportedly came up with the idea as a way to showcase the film's technicolor. As for the musical ...

“For the Technicolor movie, costumers created ruby red shoes to show up more vividly against the yellow-brick road,” reads the Smithsonian description of a pair of the ruby slippers used in ...

Dorothy's (Judy Garland) ruby red slippers from the classic 1939 movie 'The Wizard of Oz'. (Photo by Screen Archives/Getty Images) "We had boundaries of what we could reference or not," Chu explained.

While filming The Wizard of Oz, Garland wore several different copies of the red-coloured shoes, though only four are believed to have survived to this day. Her character is given the magical ...

A pair of shoes have broken a record for the most valuable movie memorabilia ever sold at auction. The ruby red slippers were worn by actress and singer Judy Garland in a famous film called The ...

An iconic piece of movie memorabilia was sold at auction over the weekend. A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland ...

The “ruby slippers” worn by Judy Garland’s Dorothy Gale in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz have ... Garland wore several different copies of the red-coloured shoes, though only ...