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Edited by
Dangerous_Kitchen
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Mon 09/01/08 08:28 PM
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ok, so this weekend it was brought to my attention that there is a scene in the wizard of oz where a munchkin supposedly hangs himself on set in the background during filming. we watched it over & over and argued that it is a bird, not a hanging munchkin. i'm still perplexed as i researched it and one of the munchkins actually did commit suicide. any insight to this urban myth? my grandmother knows margaret pellegrini who was a young munchkin in the movie and is calling her tomorrow to get the scoop.
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check snopes.com
its a urban legend. what looks like a munchin hanging himself is a big swan flapping its wings and one of the munchins did commit suicide but not on film |
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ive always wondered about that.
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How does a midget hang himself? With a shoelace?
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...a munchkin supposedly hangs himself on set in the background during filming. That musta been one mighty TALL munchkin to hang himself from a stage set! 
Yep, urban legend for sure. If'n you don't believe us...just skipper-doodle down the Yellow Brick Road and ask the "man behind the curtain"...he knows for sure! 
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check snopes.com its a urban legend. what looks like a munchin hanging himself is a big swan flapping its wings and one of the munchins did commit suicide but not on film yea, i hear it was a crane or a peacock...however...i've also read that they superimposed the bird in later to cover up the hanging. i have no doubt that the image i saw was a bird, but, it's the size of the thing that doesn't jive with me. it's as big as the trees. youtube that sh!t. |
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The "Suicide Hanging" was one of the Stagehands...
<Source> Gus Wayne, one of the "Munchkins" and one of My Best Friends for 20 years... (Died 23 January 1998, in Lakeland, Florida, USA ... (His Wife of 37 years, Olive Brasno, died 2 days later.... on 25 January 1998, Lakeland, Florida, USA) This "Little Couple" who both had such BIG HEARTS,  .and were Good friends of Judy Garland,..... Have been in my home many times, just to chat...
I miss them still.. 
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you see the shadow of the munchkin climb up on something, nothing for a second, and then he swings through and back and the scene goes to something else. you have to look for it but its there.
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The "Suicide Hanging" was one of the Stagehands... <Source> Gus Wayne, one of the "Munchkins" and one of My Best Friends for 20 years... (Died 23 January 1998, in Lakeland, Florida, USA ... (Little Johnny, the cigarette man for Philip Morris Cigarettes; which was a sponsor for the TV series I Love Lucy. His only dialogue was "call for Philip Morris!") --(His Wife of 37 years, Olive Brasno, died 2 days later.... on 25 January 1998, Lakeland, Florida, USA) This "Little Couple" who both had such BIG HEARTS, .and were Good friends of Judy Garland,..... Have been in my home many times, just to chat...
I miss them still..
More About Gus at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915568/ More about Olive: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0105423/bio .................................................... |
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i saw a bird bend down and peck at the ground, then raise up, turn, and spread its wings. i can see how the left wing of the bird looks like a swinging body because that's what your mind is telling you to look for, but it's definitely a bird. i don't see how the film could have got past all the editing without catching something like that.
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The "Suicide Hanging" was one of the Stagehands... <Source> Gus Wayne, one of the "Munchkins" and one of My Best Friends for 20 years... (Died 23 January 1998, in Lakeland, Florida, USA ... (His Wife of 37 years, Olive Brasno, died 2 days later.... on 25 January 1998, Lakeland, Florida, USA) This "Little Couple" who both had such BIG HEARTS, .and were Good friends of Judy Garland,..... Have been in my home many times, just to chat...
I miss them still..
that's cool that you knew them! margaret is great, i met her once. she signed a movie still for me  she lives in AZ still and is sweet as pie.
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I never knew about this. I have watched the movie so many times. Guess I would never see it unless I knew about it.
OK, cause I have seen the movie so many times and it rather bores me to watch it now, and would probably fall asleep. What scene is it in? |
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it's in the background after they meet the tin man and are continuing down the yellow brick road (singing). right after the scarecrow falls, watch the upper left screen.
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Edited by
baby_gurl
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Tue 09/02/08 06:25 AM
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i never notice before now
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nVjMnyAUBbo but if you look closer it is a big bird http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=N4gh6BEPN8Q&NR=1 |
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ok, so this weekend it was brought to my attention that there is a scene in the wizard of oz where a munchkin supposedly hangs himself on set in the background during filming. we watched it over & over and argued that it is a bird, not a hanging munchkin. i'm still perplexed as i researched it and one of the munchkins actually did commit suicide. any insight to this urban myth? my grandmother knows margaret pellegrini who was a young munchkin in the movie and is calling her tomorrow to get the scoop.  its true
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my grandmother called margaret (one of the munchkins) today and asked her. she claims that nobody committed suicide at all and that something fell from the set and a stage hand climbed a ladder to put it back. i've not heard that before, and now it makes me even more skeptical on whether it really did happen and MGM kindly "asked" everyone to keep a lid on it. i think maybe they dubbed the bird in later to cover it up. it's definitely a bird but the size of it doesn't jive with the surroundings. it looks too large for how far in the distance it is.
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