"People here still hold the ruby slippers dear to their heart," said Brian Mattson, an investigator for the Grand Rapids Police Department who was interviewed for the podcast.
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"I think of those slippers as the Mona Lisa of our museum," Jacqueline Stewart, chief artistic and programming officer of the museum, said during a special that aired earlier this month on ABC.Įxperts believe that the slippers in Grand Rapids are the ones Dorothy Gale used to click her way back to Kansas as she recited "There's no place like home." They are back on display, along with a carriage from the movie and an original script. The one at the newly opened Academy Museum, which was donated for display by Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio, is expected to draw the faithful. The pair at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., is among the most asked about artifacts in the entire Smithsonian collection. There are actually four sets of shoes in circulation that are believed to have been used in the 1939 film. All these people are making money off her talent and drive."Įarly episodes also explore the enduring popularity of "The Wizard of Oz" and how the shoes became so iconic. She was so famous when she was so young and had her life scripted and directed for her. "Judy was Britney before there was Britney. "It's interesting that this came out around the time Britney Spears is in the news," said Darby. Her superstar life eventually unraveled under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
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The series often wanders off the trail to educate listeners about the legacy of Judy Garland, who spent the first four years of her life in Grand Rapids, 180 miles north of Minneapolis. The podcast doesn't provide any concrete answers - but it does reveal a lot about our fascination with certain aspects of pop culture. Did memorabilia owner Michael Shaw arrange the theft to collect on the insurance? Was the late Kent Anderson, brother of Emmy-winning comic Louie Anderson, among the burglars? What role, if any, did high-powered Minneapolis attorney Joe Friedberg play? Over the course of three years of reporting, Ramchandani and Darby discovered enough suspects to fill an Agatha Christie thriller. I really had to rely on the kindness of sources." "It was a really great reporting trip," Ramchandani said. Three weeks later, the reporter was making her maiden voyage to Minnesota.
She quickly reached out to freelancer Ariel Ramchandani. "There's nothing really salacious in the slipper story and yet, it still has the cat-and-mouse qualities that lend itself to storytelling." "I was looking for a true crime story that didn't involve murder and dead girls," Darby said a few weeks ago from her Brooklyn home. Seyward Darby, editor-in-chief of the Atavist Magazine, was mesmerized when she heard about the recovery and wanted to dive deeper. The shoes then mysteriously reappeared 13 years later during an FBI sting operation. "There's No Place Like Home," an eight-part series from C13 Originals, focuses on the pair that went missing from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minn., in August 2005. During his concert at Treasure Island Casino in Red Wing earlier this month, singer Christopher Cross joked that he contemplated stealing them from Liza Minnelli's house.īut few have been as obsessed with the ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" as the two journalists behind a new podcast.
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Actor Melissa McCarthy freaked out over them in a recent TV special promoting the opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
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