Well, had she not been under contract to another studio, Shirley Temple would have been cast as Dorothy in "The Wizard Of Oz." It's hard to imagine that movie being the classic it is with Shirley Temple in that role.

Worse than that, had Judy Garland not been "Dorothy," the world might never have had "Over The Rainbow" to embrace. Even with Judy singing it, L.B. Mayer and others tried to "kill" the song (thinking it made the movie drag and was not a very singable tune); I'm told they did several releases of the movie with that song cut out. If it had been Shirley Temple singing it in her little-girl cutie-pie way, instead of Judy's soulful rendition, I doubt that this wonderful song would have survived.

Genie