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Professor Marvel

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Professor Marvel is a fictional character who appears in L. Frank Baum's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the classic 1939 film adaptation. He is portrayed as a well-meaning charlatan and a fortune-teller. In the film, he encounters Dorothy Gale from Kansas and persuades her to return home before she is swept away by a tornado to the Land of Oz. He is also revealed to be the Wizard of Oz himself, a man from Omaha who uses trickery to maintain his powerful image. The character was played by Frank Morgan in the 1939 film.1

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  1. L. Frank Baum
  2. Carl Shipp Marvel
  3. The Wizard of Oz

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