In the book 'The Wizard of Oz' how old is Dorothy?

Answer 1

Author and Oz series originator Lyman Frank Baum [May 15, 1856-May 5, 1919] gave no information as to the age of Dorothy Gale in his original book. But the illustrations could be interpreted as giving her an age of no younger than 6. Frances Ethel Gumm ka Judy Garland [June 10, 1922-June 22, 1969], who played Dorothy in the 1939 film version, was 16 years old at the time of filming. But she was made to look like 12.

Answer 2

Author and Oz series originator Lyman Frank Baum [May 15, 1856-May 5, 1919] gave no age to Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz. But he described her as a child, and as a little girl. The illustrations by William Wallace Denslow [May 5, 1856-May 27, 1915] gave her the appearance of a six-year-old. But the posthumous 1939 film version assumed her to be 12 years old. And the actress who played Dorothy, Frances Ethel Gumm ka Judy Garland [June 10, 1922-June 22, 1969], was corseted and dressed to look that age, because she was actually 16, in 1938!

Baum writes in his novel The Princess of Oz that Dorothy is a year older than Trot who is 10, making Dorothy 11-years-old.

Answer 3

Eleven or twelve for the character and sixteen for the actress are the ages of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz."

Specifically, no information is given in the text of the original 1900 book edition of "The Wizard of Oz" as to Dorothy's age. But the illustrations lead the reader to believe that she is of elementary school age. The upper limit of that range turned out to be MGM Studio's notion as to the age of the character played by child actress/dancer/singer Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 - June 22, 1969).

Answer 4

I'll assume yo are referring to the movie with Judy Garland. Judy Garland died in 1969. If she were still alive, she would be 88 years old.

Answer 5

Dorothy isn't given an exact age in either the book or the movie. However, she was probably around 10 in the book and 15 in the movie.

Answer 6

Neither the movie or any of the Oz books mention an age for Dorothy, but the books imply that she is young, around 10 or 11.

Answer 7

The actess who played 'Dorothy', Judy Garland, died in 1969 at age 47.

Answer 8

She was 15 years old.

Answer 9

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