Margaret Hamilton, 82 ... the kindly storekeeper in Maxwell House coffee commercials; May 16, in Salisbury, Conn., apparently of a heart attack. Selma Diamond, 64, longtime raspy-voiced actress ...

Just because the Wicked Witch of the West melted at the end of The Wizard of Oz doesn’t mean character actress Margaret Hamilton did ... Lady in several Maxwell House Coffee commercials.

CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. — Were it not for a critic, “My Witch: The Margaret Hamilton Stories,” a solo play ... welcoming New England storekeeper Cora in a long-running series of Maxwell House Coffee ...

Turns out, Scott had planned to write a book about Margaret as well ... people at the Cleveland Play House where she performed; at Hathaway Brown, where Hamilton attended high school, and at ...

A mere 12 minutes on screen turned Margaret Hamilton into a pop culture ... owner Cora in a series of television commercials for Maxwell House coffee. The state of movie-making in 1939 also ...

Long before the new movie "Wicked" made a sympathetic character of the Wicked Witch of the West, she was played by actress Margaret Hamilton in ... Dorothy's house has dropped upon and flattened ...

Dorothy's house has dropped upon and flattened her sister. She vows revenge for the homicide. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE WIZARD OF OZ") MARGARET HAMILTON: (As the Wicked Witch of the West ...