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Margaret Pellegrini (née Williams; September 23, 1923 – August 7, 2013) was an American actress, vaudeville performer and dancer, best known for playing one of the Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. [1] [2] Until her death in 2013, she was one of the three surviving munchkins, the other two being Jerry Maren and Ruth Robinson ...
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum , it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming , who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind .
A Munchkin is a native of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum.Although a common fixture in Germanic fairy tales, they are introduced to modern audiences with the first appearance in the classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) where they welcome Dorothy Gale to their city in Oz.
Judy Garland was repeatedly molested by the actors who played the munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz," her third husband, Sid Luft, claims. In his jaw-dropping posthumous memoir, "Judy and I: Me Life ...
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 ...
Eighty-five years ago, The Wizard of Oz arrived in cinemas and forever changed the art form. Based on L. Frank Baum's novel, the beloved film follows Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and her cast of ...
In the 1939 adaption of The Wizard of Oz, the Guardian of the Gates appears as the "Gatekeeper" portrayed by Frank Morgan (who also portrays Professor Marvelous, the Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City Coachman, and the Guard). When Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion reach the Emerald City, they ring on the bell which alerted the ...
Munchkin Country is the fictional eastern region of the Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). It is popularly known as Munchkinland, as it was first called in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Munchkin Country is in the East, noted by being ruled by the Wicked Witch of the East.