or Margaret Hamilton’s melting, sickly-skinned Wicked Witch of the West. It was a vision of the latter in the clouds that inspired American author Gregory Maguire to write "Wicked" in the early ...

The iconic scene of the death of the Wicked Witch of the West, from the screams of, “I’m melting, I’m melting!”, to her resultant disappearance, was one that was hard to forget.