Editing Ray Bolger (section)

=== Post-Oz film career ===
Following ''The Wizard of Oz'', Bolger moved to [[RKO Pictures]]. In 1941, he was a featured act at the [[Paramount Theatre (Manhattan)|Paramount Theatre]] in New York, working with the [[Harry James Band]]. He would do [[tap dance]] routines, sometimes in a mock-challenge dance with the band's pianist, [[Al Lerner (composer)|Al Lerner]]. 

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|attacked Pearl Harbor]] and Bolger's performance was interrupted by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]'s announcement of the news of the attack.<ref>{{cite book| last=Lerner| first=Al| year=2007| title=Vamp 'Til Ready| publisher=BearManor Media| isbn=978-1593930806}}{{page needed| date=April 2018}}</ref> Bolger toured in [[USO]] shows in the Pacific Theater during [[World War II]],<ref>[https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/ray-bolger/ "Ray Bolger"] masterworksbroadway.com, accessed August 26, 2019</ref><ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ray-bolger-mn0000405888/biography "Ray Bolger Bio"] allmusic.com, accessed August 26, 2019</ref> and appeared in the [[United Artists]] wartime film ''[[Stage Door Canteen (film)|Stage Door Canteen]]'' (1943).<ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91216/stage-door-canteen#credits ''Stage Door Canteen''] tcm.com, accessed August 26, 2019</ref>

In 1946, he returned to MGM for a featured role in ''[[The Harvey Girls]]''. Also that year, he recorded a children's album, ''[[The Churkendoose]]'', featuring the story of a misfit fowl ("part chicken, turkey, duck, and goose"), which teaches children that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it "all depends on how you look at things".