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, ...

While the family-friendly musical fantasy plays well for all ages, The Wizard of Oz wasn’t as pristine in real life as it appears on screen. Ironically, as the movie’s reputation as a classic movie ...

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 ...

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. Los Angeles ...

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 ...

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 ...

PHOENIX -- Margaret Pellegrini, one of the original Munchkins from the 1939 classic movie The Wizard of Oz, has died. She was 89. Pellegrini suffered a stroke Monday at her Glendale home and died ...

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 ...

An Emmy-winning TV producer and one of the few remaining stars of 'The Wizard of Oz' is survived by her husband and three sons Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/getty Betty Ann Bruno, who entertained ...

Margaret Pellegrini, the actress who played the flowerpot Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz, has died at the age of 89. She passed away on Wednesday (August 7) in Phoenix after suffering a stroke.