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 ...

Although many consider The Wizard of Oz a cursed movie, the actors who played the Munchkins reportedly found a sense of community among their ranks. After all, many actors of such small stature ...

In the ongoing media blitz for the 70th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz and coinciding DVD re-re-re-release, the movie’s much-loved munchkins are doing press rounds and recently spoke to ...

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 ...

One allegedly came on set armed with two loaded pistols to threaten a fellow Munchkin for making eyes at his wife. Wizard of Oz make-up artist Jack Dawn said: “You had to watch them all the time.” ...

The Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz are sweet and accommodating of Dorothy, who is technically an intruder in their territory. However, once the cameras stopped rolling there was a different scene ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Margaret Pellegrini, one of the original Munchkins from the 1939 classic movie The Wizard of Oz, has died. She was 89. Pellegrini suffered a stroke Monday at her Glendale home and ...

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.

Ruth Robinson Duccini, the second-to-the-last surviving Munchkin in “The Wizard of Oz,”died Thursday at age 95. The actress’ son, Fred Duccini, said his mother’s death came after a brief ...

Hildred was a Munchkin in the iconic 1939 film, "The Wizard of Oz." Three blocks from the cemetery, at the Dassel History Center, Bill Ward is an exception. He’s studied every frame of the ...

Jerry Maren, the last surviving Munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz," has died at age 98, according to people.com. Maren, who played The Lollipop Guild center Munchkin in the 1939 film classic "The ...