You've probably heard quite a few wild tales about 'The Wizard of Oz.' Most of them aren't true, especially the one about the suicidal Munchkin.
was a pop culture phenomenon practically from the minute the original Frank Baum book arrived in 1900. A musical adaptation hit stages all across America a mere two years later, andcame at the heyday of the silent film era in 1925 with Laurel and Hardy’s Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman. The past 100 years has seen too many. We’re talking, of course, about the 1939 MGM movie starring Judy Garland.
“They were drunks,” Garland told Jack Paar in 1967. “One of them, who was about 40, a gentleman, asked me for dinner and I couldn’t say ‘I can’t, because you’re a midget’. I just said, ‘No, my mother wouldn’t like it’, ‘Ah come on, bring your ma too.’ They put them all in one hotel in Culver City. They got smashed every night. They’d pick them up in butterfly nets.”
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