Q: With the newest Oz feature about to be released, I’m interested in an older feature—I think it was Return to Oz starring Annette Funicello. Was this film ever completed? I’m guessing it would have been around the time she made Babes in Toyland.
Barbara, Mountain Home, Idaho
A: Return to Oz, made by Disney in 1985, starred Fairuza Balk as Dorothy. When she was on the Mickey Mouse Club, three decades earlier, Annette Funicello performed in a segment on The Fourth Anniversary Show, one of the Disney television shows from 1957, introducing an upcoming film to be called The Rainbow Road to Oz. That film was never made.
Dave Smith