Professor Marvel [to his horse]
Better get under cover, Sylvester, there's a storm blowin' up, a whopper! Just speakin' the vernacular of the peasantry. Poor little kid. I hope she gets home all right.
Played by Frank Morgan 
The Wizard of Oz (1939) · 89 quotes
The Wizard of Oz (1939) · 89 quotes
Tied for 9th most-quoted character in The Wizard of Oz (1939): in 3 of its 89 quotes
Most scenes with: Dorothy Gale (2)
Scenes with Professor Marvel
3 scenes Professor Marvel Professor Marvel Oh, house guests! And who might you be? Oh, now don't tell me. You're traveling in disguise, no, that's not right, I...you're going on a visit? No, I'm wrong, that's, uh, you're, uh, you're running away.
How did you guess?
Professor
Professor Marvel never guesses, he knows. Now why are you running away? No, no, no, don't tell me. Uh, they don't understand you at home, they don't appreciate you. You want to see other lands, big cities, big mountains, big oceans!
Why, it's just like you could read what was inside of me.
Why can't we go with you and see all the Crowned Heads of Europe?
Professor Marvel Do you know any? Oh, you mean the thing. [gesturing to his sign] I never do anything without consulting my crystal first. Let's go inside, and I'll show you..This is the same, genuine magic authentic crystal used by the priests of Isis and Osiris in the days of the Pharaohs of Egypt, in which Cleopatra first saw the approach of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. And so on and so on. Now, you, uh, you'd better close your eyes for a moment, my child, so I can be in better tune with the infinite. [looks through her basket] We can't do these things without reaching out into the infinite. That's all right now, you can open them. We'll look into the crystal. What's this I see? A house with a picket fence and a barn with a weather vane of a...of a... running horse.
That's our farm.
Professor Marvel I see a woman. She's wearing a polka-dot dress. Her face is careworn.
That's Auntie Em.
Professor Marvel Her name is Emily.
That's right. What's she doing?
Professor Marvel Well I, uh, I can't quite see. Why, she's crying. Someone has hurt her. Someone has just about broken her heart.
Me?
Professor Marvel Well, it's uh, someone she loves very much. Someone she's been very kind to. Someone she's taken care of in sickness.
I had the measles once and she stayed right by me every minute. What's she doing now?
Professor Marvel Well, she's, uh...What's this? Well, she's, she's putting her hand on her heart. Oh, she's, she's dropping down on the bed.
Oh, no, no, no.
Professor Marvel Uh, that's it, the crystal's gone dark.
You don't suppose she could really be sick, do you? Oh, I've got to go home right away.
