#OTD in 1939.
The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
It stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, while others made uncredited contributions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55