Is there truly no place like home? Whether we’re stalled in traffic, stuck at work, or just out for a bit too long, our thoughts can’t help but wander to wherever we may lay our heads at night. A home is important, not necessarily because of where it is, but rather the people and things that make it up.

The Wizard of Oz taught us that very important lesson in 1939, and audiences have been all too eager to relearn such an important teaching year after year.

Jack Haley, who starred in the film as the iconic Tin Man, believed that the movie was so enduring because a new generation was always ready to fall in love with it.

“It’s like a toy,” the actor said during an interview with The New York Times. “You get a new generation all the time because of television. The film didn’t bowl anyone over when it first came out. It was never the big smash hit that television made it.”

According to Margaret Hamilton, better known as the Wicked Witch of the West, the film struck a nerve with audiences everywhere, tugging at their heartstrings.

“I think that business of going home is very deep in all of us,” said Hamilton. “Whether the home was a happy one, or a complete one or broken, it’s still home, and it’s where you belong. A lot of people are misplaced or displaced these days in society. Home is where we want to be, and that’s what the picture, a lot of it, is about.”

Even Hamilton, who starred in the film, was not immune to its emotional moments. “I always think I’ll just listen ot that song of Judy’s and then go on about my business. But I never can. I cry always.”