The Wicked Witch couldn’t filch Dorothy’s ruby slippers, but a bad-luck burglar, convinced there were real gems on the shoes, ...

Dorothy’s shoes from “The Wizard of Oz” were a dazzling red when the movie debuted in 1939. The ruby slippers, which now are part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History ...

Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers are on display at The Smithsonian National Museum of American History. (Photo by dbkng via Wikimedia / CC by 2.0) They are the most iconic shoes in all of Hollywood.

Glinda, the Good Witch in “The Wizard of Oz,” says it best when she describes the appeal of those ruby red slippers to the Wicked Witch of the West: “Their magic must be very powe… ...

The shoes were on display at Garland’s namesake museum in Grand Rapids in the summer of 2005 when a burglar struck. John Kelsch, the museum director at the time, says a man broke in through the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History owns a pair of Dorothy’s shoes that have gradually lost their luster and begun to deteriorate. Elisa Wouk Almino October 20, 2016 ...

Dorothy's magical ruby slippers — which she acquired after her tornado-borne house lands on and kills the Wicked Witch of the East — hold the final key to her return home.

NEW YORK — It's been 70 years since Judy Garland first clicked her ruby slippers in "The Wizard of Oz," yet even the well-heeled celebrities who inhabit the wonderful land of Hollywood still ...