This year’s theme is “Ease on Down the Wicked Road,” providing nods to the 50th anniversary of Broadway musical “The Wiz” and ...

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 ...

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 ...

She usually appeared in costume and told stories about her time as a Munchkin, The Arizona Republic reported. She also told children that the Wizard of Oz movie was a moral lesson. "There are two ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hildred was a Munchkin in the iconic 1939 film, "The Wizard of Oz." Three blocks from the cemetery ... 36 inches tall and dressed in costume, emerges with more than 120 other little people ...

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.

Hildred was a Munchkin in the iconic 1939 film, "The Wizard of Oz." Three blocks from the cemetery ... 36 inches tall and dressed in costume, emerges with more than 120 other little people ...

Hildred was a Munchkin in the iconic 1939 film, "The Wizard of Oz." Three blocks from the cemetery ... 36 inches tall and dressed in costume, emerges with more than 120 other little people ...