Rumors also had it – thanks to the stars in the film, no less – that the little people threw when the inhabitants of Munchkinland ran amok in their spare time.
“They were little drunk,” Garland said in an interview from 1967 with Jackpar. “They were crushed every night and the police used to scoop them in butterfly networks.”
Jerry Marenwho played the green checkered supporting member of the Lollipop Guild and was the last survivor Oz Munchkin when he died 98 in 2018, drove back on the characterization of him and his costs.
“Judy told it according to her pills and spirits that day,” Mare wrote in his memoir from 2006 (with Stephen Cox) Short and sweet: Life and the times for Lollipop Munchkin. “She left a legacy of false about us.”
And among the 120 or so small people in the film, “There were a couple of children from Germany who liked to drink beer,” he wrote. “They drank beer morning, dinner and night and got some problems. They wanted to meet the girls, but they were the only ones.”
Margaret PellegriniWho played a Munchkin village, had good memories of the experience. “My father worked at a hotel and earned about $ 5 a week. I got paid $ 50 a week,” She remembers. “It took eight weeks to make the Munchkinland scenes, after which I stayed in Hollywood for a month to Sightsee.”
