Reckon this “talk” was of course carefully scripted and re-scripted before Ms. Hamilton ever saw it.
I’m guessing she never had the opportunity to warn children about the dangers of playing with toxic green makeup.
Green makeup was made from copper oxide, which will do horrible things to you if it gets into your body. Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard Of Oz , was covered in it, and it caused a medical crisis when she suffered a severe burn during an accident on set. The burn itself wasn’t life-threatening, but getting some of that green paint into the wound absolutely was. Makeup artists had to meticulously remove every spot of paint from Hamilton’s body with alcohol before she could be effectively treated – as he said, “you don’t take chances with green.”
