There were also rumors – thanks to the film’s stars, at least – that little people were playing Munchkinland residents in disarray in their spare time.
“They were a little drunk.” Garland said in a 1967 interview with Jack Zugin. “They were getting smashed every night and the police were arresting them with butterfly nets.”
Jerry Marinwho played the green-plaid-wearing member of the Lollipop Guild and was the last surviving The Wizard of Oz When Munchkin died at the age of 98 in 2018, he retracted his description of his colleagues.
Marin wrote in his 2006 memoir: “Judy was saying that according to her pills and alcoholic beverages that day.” Stephen Cox) Short and sweet: The Life and Times of Lollipop Munchkin. “She left behind a legacy of lies about us.”
Among the 120 little people in the movie, “there were two kids from Germany who liked to drink beer,” he wrote. “They drank beer morning, noon and night, and got into a little trouble. They wanted to meet the girls, but they were the only ones.”
Margaret Pellegriniwho played one of the Munchkin villagers, had fond memories of the experience. “My father worked in a hotel and earned about $5 a week. And I was earning 50 dollars a week,” she recalled. She remembered. “It took eight weeks to shoot the Munchkinland scenes, after which I stayed in Hollywood for a month for sightseeing.”
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