The Patchwork Girl of Oz
AKA The Ragged Girl of Oz in the USA; De Aventuen van Ojo in Wonderland in Holland
(1914) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by J. Farrell MacDonald

Cast: Pierre Couderc [Scraps, the patchwork girl], Frank Moore [Unk Nunkie], Raymond Russell [Dr. Pipt], Fred Woodward [Mewel; the Woozy; and the Zoop], Violet Macmillan [Ojo], Leontine Dranet [Dame Margolotte Pipt], [?] Bobbie or Bobby? Gould [Jesseva Pipt], Dick Rosson [Danx], Jessie May Walsh [Ozma of Oz], Frank Bristol [Omby Amby, a soldier with green whiskers], Marie Wayne [Jinjur, a maid from Emerald City], Vivian Reed [the leader], Mildred Harris [Dorothy], Juanita Hansen [bell ringer], Ben Deeley [Rozyn, the fiddler], Todd Wright [the Wizard of Oz], Herbert Glennon [the Scarecrow], Al Roach (Hal Roach) [the Cowardly Lion; and a Tottenhot], Lon Musgrave [the Tin Woodsman], William Cook [royal chamberlain], Andy Anderson [the hungry tiger], Harold Lloyd [a Tottenhot], [?] Florence Dagmar?, [?] Blanche Lang or Blanch Long?, [?] Queenie Rossom?

Oz Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by L. Frank Baum and Louis F. Gottschalk. Associate producer Harold Ostrom. Scenario by L. Frank Baum, from the book The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Assistant technical manager Will H. White. Assistant director Harold Ostrom. Cinematography by James A. Crosby. Music score by Louis F. Gottschalk. / © 5 October 1914 by L. Frank Baum [LU4111]. Premiere 6 August 1914 at the Los Angeles Athletic Club in Los Angeles, California. Released 28 September 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The first Oz Film production. Working title: The Ragged Girl of Oz. Couderc was also known as “L’Etoile Grotesque.” The film was rereleased in the USA as The Ragged Girl of Oz in 1919.

Drama: Fantasy.

Survival Status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute/Murray Glass collection) [35mm positive].

Keywords: Authors: L. Frank Baum

Listing updated: 22 March 2008.

References: Tarbox-Lost pp. 190, 206, 256 : ClasIm-223 p. 56 : Website-AFI; Website-Lloyd.

Home Video: DVD.