She spent six weeks recovering from the burns. She decided not to sue MGM, out of fear that she’d never work again. Once she returned to the set, however, she refused to do any more scenes involving fire.
After Oz, Hamilton continued to work in movies, theater, radio, and television. In the 1970s, she appeared in commercials as the spokesperson for Maxwell House coffee. She also provided the voice of Aunt Em in the animated Journey Back to Oz in 1974. She continued to work until 1979, when she gave her final performance as Grandma Miller in the TV movie Letters from Frank. Six years later, Margaret Hamilton died of a heart attack at the age of 82.
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Sources used in this article include The Making of The Wizard of Oz by Aljean Harmetz and The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History by John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman.
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