HAMILTON, MARGARET (1902-15 May 1985), a Cleveland actress best remembered as the "Wicked Witch of the West" in the film classic The Wizard of Oz, graduated from HATHAWAY BROWN in 1921. Daughter of ...

Margaret Hamilton and a winged monkey look into a crystal ball in a still from the film, 'The Wizard of Oz,' directed by Victor Fleming, 1939. MGM Studios/Courtesy of Getty Images ...

MARGARET HAMILTON: (As the Wicked Witch of the West) I'll get you, my pretty. And your little dog, too (laughter). ULABY: The witch disappears in a puff of orange smoke, but the fire was all too ...

Margaret Hamilton was born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 9, 1902, the youngest of four children and obtained her teaching certificate in 1923 from the Wheelock Kindergarten Training School in Boston.

"Margaret Hamilton was definitely a touchstone for me," she tells Entertainment Weekly. Hamilton played the Wicked Witch in the legendary 1939 film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's novel.

Margaret Hamilton and Judy Garland in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (1939) Silver Screen Collection / Contributor/Getty Filming it wasn’t a walk down the Yellow Brick Road, though. Infamously, Hamilton ...

Margaret Hamilton (1902 - 1985) as the Wicked Witch and Judy Garland (1922 - 1969) as Dorothy Gale in 'The Wizard of Oz', 1939. Hamilton's life and times are the subject of a new book by Don Billie.

Long before the new movie "Wicked" made a sympathetic character of the Wicked Witch of the West, she was played by actress Margaret Hamilton in the classic film, The Wizard of Oz. But it was not ...