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 ...

Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Judy Garland and Bert Lahr in 'The Wizard of Oz.' During the course of filming the 1939 classic about Kansas teen Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) who’s swept away to a magical land ...

One of the last remaining Munchkin characters from the 1939 MGM classic “Wizard of Oz” has died. Elaine Merk Binder, who performed as one of the film’s merry little people when she was 8 years old, ...

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, ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Ruth Robinson Duccini, the last of the original female Munchkins from the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz," has died. She was 95. With her death, only one actor who played one of the ...

Elaine Merk Binder, one of the last surviving actors who played a Munchkin in the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz,” has died, according to her daughter Annette Phillips. She was 94. Binder auditioned ...

Elaine Merk Binder has passed away. Binder was one of the original stars of The Wizard of Oz. She was born on December 19, 1930. In 1939, at just eight years old, she played one of the Munchkins in ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 24 ...

A look back at the making of the original "Wizard of Oz" and all its setbacks. March 8, 2013— -- intro: As yet another spinoff of "The Wizard of Oz" arrives in theaters, it's almost hard to ...

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 ...