We’re off to see … HR! New details have emerged about the chaos that occurred backstage during the making of the 1939 classic ...

Carroll was one of more than 100 adults and children who were recruited to play the movie natives of what author L. Frank Baum called Munchkin Country in his 1900 book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." P ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jerry Maren, the last surviving munchkin from the classic 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” and the one who famously welcomed Dorothy to Munchkin Land, has died at age 99. Maren died May ...

One of only three surviving actors with personal memories of making 'The Wizard of Oz,' 95- year-old Priscilla Montgomery Clark recounts her role as a Munchkin Jeanette Fern, Rae-Nell Laskey, ...

At age 15 she went off to see the wizard. Now more than 70 years later, Margaret Pellegrini — an original munchkin from Munchkinland — still doesn't get tired of the story of Dorothy and ...

DALLAS, TX, UNITED STATES, September 22, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Elaine Merk Binder, remembered as one of the last surviving Munchkins from the beloved 1939 ...

This year's 26th Annual Wizard of Oz Festival this weekend in Porter County will be missing a few of our favorite familiar faces. Illness and advanced age is preventing a few of the more popular ...

Just in time for the 70th anniversary of the timeless film, the wonderful "Wizard of Oz" skips into town Sunday in its live stage format -- and with local Munchkins. "It's just a fantastic celebration ...

Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in “The Wizard of Oz” and proclaimed in the movie that the Wicked Witch of the East was “really most sincerely dead,” has died. He was 94. His ...

One of only three surviving actors with personal memories of making 'The Wizard of Oz,' 95- year-old Priscilla Montgomery Clark recounts her role as a Munchkin For Oz, which experienced a deficit of ...