It took a lot of courage for Bert Lahr to transform into the "King of the Forest." The comic actor famously played the Cowardly Lion in 1939’s "The Wizard of Oz." The Technicolor classic, which ...

Bert Lahr’s most iconic role is that of the Cowardly Lion in “The Wizard of Oz" -- but his daughter said the comic actor didn’t witness the magic of his own work until much later in life. “My father ...

In an iconic movie filled with iconic moments and iconic characters, 1939's The Wizard of Oz has iconic written all over it, and in terms of the latter, few embody that just over-used description more ...

Bert Lahr, who died in 1967, is best remembered for having played the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 film version of "The Wizard of Oz." That's not a bad way to crash posterity, but in his day Mr. Lahr was ...

NEW YORK — Bert Lahr’s Cowardly Lion costume from the classic film “The Wizard of Oz” has sold for more than $3 million at an auction in New York City. The big cat outfit had been authenticated as the ...

When Dorothy and friends first encounter the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz,” he’s springing out of the “dark and creepy” forest. Mane bouncing. Tale flicking. No sign of a zipper ...

This is really gonna make you roar: Two of movie memorabilia's holy grails — the Cowardly Lion costume worn by Bert Lahr in "The Wizard of Oz" and Sam's famous "Casablanca" piano — have just sold at ...

A Beverly Hills home built for actor Bert Lahr, the Cowardly Lion in “The Wizard of Oz,” is back on the market, this time priced at $25.58 million. Designed by Paul R. Williams in 1941, the gated ...

An actor, comedian, and singer, with his rubber-faced expression and noisy antics — which included his trademark expression “gnong-gnong” — Lahr was one of the all-time great clowns of the American ...

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NEW YORK- Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion costume from the classic film "The Wizard of Oz" has sold for more than $3 million at an auction in New York City. The big cat outfit had been authenticated as the ...

A Cowardly Lion costume worn by Bert Lahr in the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” sold for more than $3 million at a New York City auction of Hollywood memorabilia on Monday, according to the Bonhams New ...