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However, Slater looks much different from how Munchkins looked in The Wizard of Oz. After seeing Ethan Slater portray a Munchkin in Wicked, some fans who have only seen The Wizard of Oz may be ...
In 2009 I did a video interview with the five surviving Munchkins from the The Wizard of Oz: Ruth Duccini, Meinhardt Raabe, Margaret Pellegrini, Karl Slover, and Jerry Maren. It was for the 70th ...
When the last lingering Munchkin from “The Wizard of Oz,” Jerry Maren, died in May, at the age of ninety-eight, I took the news harder than I had thought possible. “People come and go so ...
Ruth Robinson Duccini, who played a Munchkin in the beloved 1939 musical fantasy The Wizard of Oz, died Thursday in Las Vegas, the Los Angeles Times reports. She was 95. "Ruth was a sweetheart of ...
Ruth Robinson Duccini, one of the two surviving Munchkins from "The Wizard of Oz," died Thursday of natural causes in a hospice care center in Las Vegas. She was 95.Of the original 124 actors who ...
For almost as long as the movie has existed â nearly a century since The Wizard of Oz hit theaters in 1939 â rumors persist that the silhouette of a dead munchkin actor hanging from a ...
The Yellow Brick Road finally ended on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday as the Munchkins from "The Wizard of Oz" got their star after a 68-year wait. By Reuters, The Associated Press The ...
The recent death of cabaret actress, Kimberly Tripp – known as 'Mini Kim Kardashian' – reveals the uncomfortable pace of evolving showbiz attitudes in Oz's debut You can save this article by ...
Betty Ann Bruno, a former child actress who played a munchkin in the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" before becoming a successful investigative reporter, has passed away at 91 years old.
Illness and advanced age is preventing a few of the more popular little Munchkins from the classic 1939 MGM film "The Wizard of Oz" from attending this year's festival. Here's the list I've been ...