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But the actor also debunked one of the main tenets of the ghost story: namely that they filmed the movie in an actual house. "We shot on a soundstage. They built the set and all."
Jerry Maren (born Gerard Marenghi; January 24, 1920 – May 24, 2018) was an American actor who played a Munchkin member of the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. He became the last surviving adult Munchkin [ a ] following the death of Ruth Duccini in 2014, and was also the last surviving cast member with a ...
Cows routinely lie down to sleep. Cow tipping is the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment. The practice of cow tipping is generally considered an urban legend [1] and stories of such feats viewed as tall tales. [2]
The Hanging Man of Halloween was a 42-year-old woman who hanged herself in a tree along a busy road in Frederica, Delaware. [54] The Hanging Munchkin is a small shadowed figure seen during the film The Wizard of Oz, purportedly an actor (portraying a Munchkin) caught in the act of committing suicide. Snopes.com finds no evidence of any such ...
From left: Jerry Maren (Lollipop Guild), Karl Slover, Clarence Swensen and Margaret Pellegrini (1998) Karl Slover (September 21, 1918 – November 15, 2011) was a Slovakian-born American actor best known as one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
The Munchkin Jinjur is the main antagonist in Baum's second book The Marvelous Land of Oz, where she seeks to overthrow the Scarecrow and take over the Emerald City. Jinjur makes a brief appearance in the next book, entitled Ozma of Oz , and is brought back in Baum's twelfth book, The Tin Woodman of Oz .
He was the eight–to–last surviving munchkin actor with dwarfism: Mickey Carroll died less than three months later in May 2009, Meinhardt Raabe and Olga C. Nardone both died the following the year in 2010, Karl Slover in 2011, Margaret Pellegrini in 2013, Ruth Duccini in 2014, and Jerry Maren in 2018.
Hoax Slayer originated as a Yahoo! group before the website was established. [6]Stories it has debunked include fake videos claiming to depict Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, [7] myths that the 2013 supermoon appeared bigger than it really did, [8] and a "Simon Ashton" hoax claiming that emails from Simon Ashton should not be opened because doing so would lead to your computer being hacked.