Margaret Hamilton
Announcement for June 2026
Nearly all of the non-MH content has been removed from this website. There are still remnants left here, but they will be removed in due time. I have set up a new website for this content, and it will launch in the next week or two. Many of the videos have been upgraded (again); there is a lot of new content slated for new site, which will not include any Margaret Hamilton videos.
New content for this site is reaching the point where there isn't much of anything left. Combine that with the nearly year-long sluggishness of the service here—along with the lies they've told me as the causes—I've almost had enough.
If you have content or insights that you would like included at this web site, please contact me at mh at bodietown dot com. For now, there are no plans to discontinue this web site.
March 2026
In Video Vault, another one of those 1940s melodramas with plenty of cornball acting that wears thin right from the start. Maggie delivers her usual good performance, but some of the others—especially whiny Lee—are distractions. And just look at that gigantic slice of cake, which little I-don't-care-if-I-EVER-eat-again refuses...I'll take it, if she doesn't want it.
This Is How I Felt, September 2017
Move over, Dorothy...
...and give me that compress. Your adventure was a walk in the park compared to mine.
This website disappeared a few years ago, mainly because of the other two websites that were attached to it. Now, after so many years of darkness, it's time to get busy again.
I promised myself and others, too, that I would get this thing up and running by September 2017. They said it would be easy—like clicking my heels three times?—and they lied, BIGtime. Everything changed while I was gone: HTML was no longer the way I remembered it. Browsers don't work like they used to. And who, pray tell, killed Netscape?
But I did it. There was no wizard to help me, no ruby shoes, no Glinda, no nothing. And no Toto, too. I even went to California looking for her, only to find out that her burial ground was paved over by a highway (disrespect much?...geez...I did drive over it, however). And I also found this.
But I'm done (for today), and you're Home. There's no place like Home...as you can plainly see.
Your webmaster, Ran (September 2017/2026; mh at bodietown dot com)
January 2026
In Pix, a postcard hand-written by Maggie to a well known celebrity (in Philadelphia) at local television station WCAU in 1972. She invites him to her home in New York City to have a Sunday breakfast with all the fixin's, before they take off for the TV station. Inviting others over for lunch or breakfast was something Hamilton did quite often. She was always a gracious host for celebrities and fans...all you had to do was ask the elevator man for directions to her place.
This Is Mainly Why We're Here
Where to Begin?
Many years ago (while walking down the yellow-brick road...), I thought it would be nice to own a piece of The Wizard of Oz. Since I'm no Willard Carroll, who owns more than his fair share of Oz memorabilia (not mad, just jealous...), MargaretHamilton.com was all I could afford. Why was it available? That's a good question: It was just sitting there waiting to be snapped up, and I was the first to snap.
But why MH? Because her 12-minute WWW appearance in The Wizard of Oz not only stole the movie, but continues to scare the tarnation out of kids around the world. I love that!...and so do they, something they'll appreciate when they grow up.
And then there's the fact that Margaret—Maggie, as she liked to be called—so much reminded me of my good friend, Mabel. Mabel and I were your typical Harold and Maude couple—minus any kind of romantic stuff—we could discuss anything together, we were always there to support each other, and we remained friends until senility stepped in and took her away from me and the world. Plain speaking, down to earth, about the same age as Maggie...Mabel was a gift.
If you are a copyright holder of anything on this site and you don't like what I've done, just tell me. I will take down your copyrighted stuff pronto, no harm or disrespect done or intended. But I think the content is either in the public domain (most of it is well over 50 years old), was filmed or designed by me, or falls under the Fair Use Doctrine.
Theft of Work for YouTube
On all of the videos on this site, you will see messages asking you not to steal the work here, and place it on YouTube.
Video content on this website is watermarked; all of the videos contain keep-off-of-YouTube warnings, and they are watermarked several times with this site's identity.
I am not a fan of YT and have never given or shared my work on that site. Furthermore, I don't make money off of anything here. YouTube, however, is a censoring, stealth-surveillance, money-generating corporation worth billions, built off the backs of the artists who originally created the media, and people like me, who promote it in a fair-use manner. Furthermore, YouTube is affiliated with a world-wide famed search engine that feeds information to the surveillance state. Please don't help these corporations grow and prosper; I have enough to do without having to deal with corporate parasites.