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Hollywood\, 1938: \;As soon as she lea rns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband&rsquo\;s masterpiece for the s creen\, Maud Gage Baum\, now in her seventies\, sets about trying to finag le her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank&rsquo\;s passing\, Mau d is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book&mdash\;she&rsquo\;s the only one left who knows its secrets.
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But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of &ldquo\;Over the Rainbow\,&rdquo\; Maud recognizes the yearning t hat defined her own life story\, from her youth as a \;suffragist&rsqu o\;s daughter to her hardscrabble prairie years with Frank\, which inspire d \;The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. \;Judy reminds Maud of a young gir l she cared for in South Dakota\, a dreamer who never got a happy ending. Now\, with the young girl under pressure from the studio as well as from h er ambitious stage mother\, Maud resolves to protect Judy&mdash\;the way s he tried so hard to protect the real Dorothy.

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