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 ...

Who were you favorite characters from The Wizard of Oz? Elaine Merk Binder, who portrayed one of the lovable munchkins in the legendary film, died on Sunday, September 21, TMZ reports. She was 94.

One of the most persistent urban legends in Hollywood history revolves around a munchkin hanging himself during a scene from 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. As the story goes, the actor in question was ...

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, ...

She also showed up in several Our Gang comedy shorts during her brief stay in Hollywood. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Valerie Lee, who appeared in Our Gang comedy shorts and as one of the child ...

Valerie Lee, who appeared in Our Gang comedy shorts and as one of the child Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz, has died. She was 94. Lee died Sunday in Reseda, Stephen Cox, author of the 1996 book The ...

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 ...

Jeanette Fern, Rae-Nell Laskey, Priscilla Montgomery, Jerry Maren, Betty Ann Cain, Judy Garland and Olga Nardone sitting on the steps of Munchkinland during a break in filming 'The Wizard of Oz' One ...

Most of the actors who played munchkins in the 1939 movie are dead ... Elaine had been one of the last few who were still alive. Elaine tried out for "The Wizard of Oz" way back in 1938 ... and she ...