She spent 11 days in hospital and her legs were permanently scarred. The pipe exploded on the third take of the scene. Danko sat on a smoking pipe configured to look like the Witch's broomstick. She was severely burned during the "Surrender Dorothy!" skywriting sequence at the Emerald City. Danko made the fiery entrance to Munchkinland, not Hamilton. Hamilton's stand-in and stunt double for the Witch, Betty Danko, also suffered an on-set accident on February 11, 1939. I said, 'Yes?' and he said 'Maggie, they want you to play a part on the Wizard.' I said to myself, 'Oh, boy, The Wizard of Oz! That has been my favorite book since I was four.' And I asked him what part, and he said, 'The Witch,' and I said, 'The Witch?!' and he said, 'What else?' I was in need of money at the time, I had done about six pictures for MGM at the time, and my agent called. Later in life, she would comment on the role of the witch in a light-hearted fashion. Studio executives cut some of Hamilton's more frightening scenes, worrying they would frighten children too much. I will return to work on one condition – no more fireworks!" Garland visited Hamilton while the latter recuperated at home looking after her son. After she recuperated, she said, "I won't sue, because I know how this business works, and I would never work again.
Hamilton had to recuperate in a hospital and at home for six weeks after the accident before returning to the set to complete her work on the film and refused to have anything further to do with fire for the rest of the filming. On December 23, 1938, Hamilton suffered a second-degree burn on her face and a third-degree burn on her hand during a second take of her fiery exit from Munchkinland in which the trap door's drop was delayed to eliminate the brief glimpse of it seen in the final edit. Hamilton was cast after Gale Sondergaard, who was first considered for the role, albeit as a more glamorous witch with a musical scene, declined the role when the decision was made that the witch should appear ugly. In 1939, Hamilton played the role of the Wicked Witch of the West, opposite Judy Garland's Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz, creating, not only her most famous role, but also one of the screen's most memorable villains. Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West with Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939) In 1960, producer/director William Castle cast Hamilton as a housekeeper in his 13 Ghosts horror film, in which 12-year-old lead Charles Herbert's character taunts her about being a witch, including the final scene, in which she is holding a broom in her hand. Mankiewicz's People Will Talk (1951) as Sarah Pickett. Opposite Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, she played a heavily made-up witch in Comin' Round the Mountain, where her character and Costello go toe-to-toe with voodoo dolls made of each other. She appeared regularly in supporting roles in films until the early 1950s and sporadically thereafter. Her crisp voice with rapid but clear enunciation was another trademark. Later in the decade, she was in a little-known film noir, titled Bungalow 13 (1948), in which she again costarred opposite Cromwell. Hamilton costarred opposite Buster Keaton and Richard Cromwell in a 1940s spoof of the long-running local melodrama The Drunkard, titled The Villain Still Pursued Her.
She strove to work as much as possible to support herself and her son she never put herself under contract to any one studio and priced her services at $1,000 ($18,800 with inflation ) a week. Fields, 1940), and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (with Harold Lloyd, 1947). She went on to appear in These Three (1936), Saratoga, You Only Live Once, When's Your Birthday?, Nothing Sacred (all 1937), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), My Little Chickadee (with W. Hamilton made her screen debut in 1933 in Another Language. Before she turned to acting exclusively, her parents insisted she attend Wheelock College in Boston, which she did, later becoming a kindergarten teacher. Brooks Theater at the Cleveland Play House. Hamilton made her debut as a "professional entertainer" on December 9, 1929, in a "program of 'heart rending songs'" in the Charles S. Hamilton practiced her craft doing children's theater while she was a Junior League of Cleveland member.
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