 The original concept for the Wicked Witch of the West was to have  her resemble a strikingly beautiful woman much in the same way the  Evil Queen in _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)_ (qv) was  conceived. Producer Mervyn LeRoy (qv) originally cast MGM beauty  Gale Sondergaard (qv) in the role as a sleek, sexy Wicked Witch of  the West. However, the presence of a sexy Wicked Witch left a large  plot hole within the script, for it played against the idea that bad  witches were ugly. Convinced that the point was important, LeRoy  retested Sondergaard as an ugly witch. Looking hideous in the  make