It’s impossible to tie up Betty Ann Ka’ihilani Bruno’s legacy in one sentence. She was possibly the last-remaining actor from the cherished 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz.” She was an Emmy Award-winning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Betty Ann Bruno, who as a child played a munchkin in the 1939 classic The Wizard Of Oz and went on to become a TV producer and longtime reporter in the San Francisco Bay area, died Sunday in Sonoma, ...

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

ST. LOUIS — One of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 classic film “The Wizard of Oz” has died. St. Louis actor Mickey Carroll died Thursday at the age of 89. His caretaker, Linda Dodge, made ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A female Munchkin who appeared in The Wizard of Oz has died, aged 95. Ruth Robinson Duccini passed away of natural cases today (January 17) at a Las Vegas hospice center. There is now one surviving ...

Betty Ann Bruno, Bay Area local news reporter and a Munchkin in the classic film “The Wizard of Oz,” has died at the age of 91, according to San Francisco Fox affiliate KTVU. Bruno was born on in ...