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For millions of moviegoers—and with all due respect to Jonathan Bailey in Wicked and its forthcoming sequel, Wicked for Good—Ray Bolger will always be the floppy-limbed, warmhearted Scarecrow who dreamed of having a brain in The Wizard of Oz.

Rubber-legged dance style

Bolger’s choreography as the Scarecrow remains iconic. Jackson even studied Bolger’s movements when preparing to play the Scarecrow in The Wiz (1978).

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And, true to her word, while Bolger’s Scarecrow gig gets its due as a prominent role in his resumé, it isn’t allowed to upstage Bolger’s many other career highlights, nor does the role dominate the book.

Still: Bolger was a Scarecrow for the ages. A link to Judy Garland

Bolger maintained his friendship with Garland after Oz.

He appeared on The Judy Garland Show in 1964, where they reminisced warmly about making the movie and performed together (including “If I Only Had a Brain”).

18. A serious dancer’s dancer

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire both admired Bolger’s singular style. — became an acclaimed star of his time.

She had a very specific performance style, with her expressive face and demonstrative gestures. However, feel free to tell us what you think! No bodices are ripped, no one stumbles drunkenly onto the stage. Bolger absorbed a fascinating potpourri of movement styles inflected with, among other flavors, Irish and African-American dance traditions. Though I applaud the civility, Van Leuven could have drawn aside the curtain occasionally: at times the proceedings feel unnecessarily sanitized.

Street challenges led to amateur nights (with the allure of cash prizes) and, for Bolger, breaking into the vaudeville circuit. In the ’70s, he guest-starred as Shirley Partridge’s (Shirley Jones) father on The Partridge Family.

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When did Ray Bolger end the active career?

When did Ray Bolger's career start? But unfortunately we currently cannot access them from our system. Yes, Oz brought him widespread recognition, but he’d already garnered a multitude of fans — audiences, yes, but there were plenty of admiring newspaper critics too — from his live stage work.