Actress margaret hamilton obituary
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The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch Actress Suffered Unforgettable Pain After Being Burned on Set (Exclusive)
- With Wicked in theaters, PEOPLE is looking back at The Wizard of Oz
- Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West, was burned on set, and removing the makeup around the wounds caused unspeakable pain
- She also had tinted green skin in the months after filming
It wasn’t always easy being green for Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.
In , nearly a century before Cynthia Erivo went viridescent for the witch’s origin story in Wicked, Hamilton famously played the campy, cackling villain who terrorizes the residents of the magical land of Oz.
And Hamilton — who died at age 82 in — went through a particularly painful “ordeal,” according to Oz expert John Fricke, the author of The Wizard of Oz, The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History and The Wizard of Oz, An Illustrate