Recent Obituaries, Classic Films Only

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47. Margaret Pellegrini, 89, "Wizard of Oz" actress.

Margaret Pellegrini, who as a teenager was featured in the Munchkin sequence of The Wizard of Oz, has died at age 89. She was one of three surviving members of the Munchkins troupe.

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Then 16 years old, Pellegrini played both the Flowerpot Girl that greets Judy Garland’s Dorothy to Oz and one of the Sleepy Head Kids that appears in a scene a few minutes later. She even got to sing a couple of lines: “Wake up, you sleepyhead. Rub your eyes. Get out of Bed. Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead.”