The greatest movie song ever was almost CUT ✂️🌈 | Wizard of Oz | Movie Fact #14 #shorts #song

MGM bosses felt "Over the Rainbow" slowed down Kansas and would bore the kids – after test screenings they wanted it gone. Then associate producer Arthur Freed reportedly said: "The song stays, or I go." It stayed, won the Oscar, and the American Film Institute ranked it the #1 movie song ever. 🎬 New movie fact every day – follow @CapTenFacts!

Sources: Wikipedia ("The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)", "Over the Rainbow"), /Film (2022), Far Out Magazine, AFI's 100 Years…100 Songs.
Photos (Wikimedia Commons): "Louis B Mayer cropped" and "Arthur Freed receiving the Screen Producers Guild's Milestone Award (cropped)" – Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library (CC BY 4.0). Drawings: CapTenFacts.
Music: "A Cute Ghost Story" by MMAudio, "Surf Rock Summer" by BFCMusic (Pixabay). No melody of the film's song is used.
Sounds (Freesound, CC BY 4.0): "OrchardBirds.wav" by HerbertBoland (https://freesound.org/s/31960/) · "howling wind inside 01" by klankbeeld (https://freesound.org/s/212443/). Other sounds: Freesound (CC0) / own library.

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