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Fictional character
Em Gale
Oz character
First appearance
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Created by
L. Frank Baum
Portrayed by
Mary Carr (1925 film)
Clara Blandick (1939 film)
Theresa Merritt (The Wiz)
Aretha Franklin (1995 Apollo Theater Revival)
Piper Laurie (Return to Oz)
Queen Latifah (The Muppets' Wizard of Oz)
Stephanie Mills (The Wiz Live!)
Gina Stockdale (Once Upon a Time)
In-universe information
Gender
Female
Title
Royal Mender of the Stockings of the Ruler of Oz
Occupation
Housewife, farmer
Family
Dorothy Gale (niece) Unnamed sister
Spouse
Uncle Henry
Relatives
Uncle Bill Hugson (brother-in-law) Unnamed Australians (in-laws)
Nationality
American
Aunt Em is a fictional character from the Oz books.[1] She is the aunt of Dorothy Gale and wife of Uncle Henry, and lives together with them on a farm in Kansas. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, she is described as having been a "young, pretty wife" when she arrived at Uncle Henry's farm, but having been "grayed" by her life there, implying that she appears older than her years. Baum tells us that when Dorothy first came to live with her, Em would "scream and press her hand upon her heart" when startled by Dorothy's laughter, and she appears emotionally distant to her at the beginning of the story. However, after Dorothy is restored to her at the end of the book, we see her true nature: she cries out, "My darling child!" and covers her with kisses.
There is no question about Dorothy's love for her aunt: indeed, her request to the magic Silver Shoes is "Take me home to Aunt Em!"
^Jack Snow, Who's Who in Oz, Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988; p. 10.
AuntEm is a fictional character from the Oz books. She is the aunt of Dorothy Gale and wife of Uncle Henry, and lives together with them on a farm in...
the Oz books, Dorothy is raised by her aunt and uncle in the bleak landscape of a Kansas farm. Whether AuntEm or Uncle Henry is Dorothy's blood relative...
lands. AuntEm, however, has little patience for her daydreaming, believing that dawdling is contrary to their way of life. After an argument, AuntEm apologizes...
rural Kansas, Dorothy Gale lives on a farm owned by her Uncle Henry and AuntEm. Dorothy's neighbor, Almira Gulch, who had been bitten by Dorothy's dog...
the husband of AuntEm. He ultimately moves to Oz with Dorothy and AuntEm when the bank forecloses on his farm. AuntEm – Dorothy's aunt, and the wife...
five minutes into the film, Dorothy sings the song after failing to get AuntEm, Uncle Henry, and the farmhands to listen to her story of an unpleasant...
Love This Christmas", available for download. In 2015, Mills was cast as AuntEm in the NBC live musical production of The Wiz, forty years after her initial...
Books by L. Frank Baum. He is the uncle of Dorothy Gale and husband of AuntEm, and lived with them on a farm in Kansas. After their house was famously...
nomination for Best Visual Effects. In the autumn of 1899, Dorothy Gale's AuntEm and Uncle Henry take her to the sanatorium of Dr. Worley, concerned that...
Dorothy suffers her imprisonment after AuntEm's image fades away in the crystal ball rather than "I'll give you Auntie Em, my pretty!". In the February 1996...
for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama (1948). Ellen Hansen was born in Racine, Wisconsin...
was an American character, film, stage and theater actress who portrayed AuntEm in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz (1939). As a character actress...
July 20, 1910, it is the story of Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and AuntEm coming to live in Oz permanently. While they are toured through the Quadling...
poppy field in addition to revealing the secret to going back home. Like AuntEm and Uncle Henry, who do not have Oz counterparts, Glinda does not have...
was also used for the Wicked Witch of the East in March Laumer's novel AuntEm and Uncle Henry in Oz. In the 1974 Broadway musical The Wiz and its film...
the aunt of the main character in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Aunt Sally, a character in the Worzel Gummidge books and TV series. Auntie Em, the aunt of...
Witch Margaret Hamilton as AuntEm Paul Ford as Uncle Henry Jack E. Leonard as the Signpost Larry Storch as Amos, AuntEm and Uncle Henry's farmworker...
world to come live in the Land of Oz, most notably Dorothy, The Wizard, AuntEm, Uncle Henry, Betsy Bobbin, Trot, Button Bright and Cap'n Bill. According...
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of the references to Thanksgiving cut out, for the CBS repeat in 1981. AuntEm is getting ready for a Thanksgiving feast when Dorothy spots someone getting...
John R. Neill 1910 Reilly & Britton Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and AuntEm come to live in Oz permanently. While they tour through the Quadling Country...