{"id":29971,"date":"2013-08-08T07:40:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=29971"},"modified":"2013-08-07T22:51:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T02:51:15","slug":"munchkin-margaret-pellegrini-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/08\/munchkin-margaret-pellegrini-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Munchkin Margaret Pellegrini, 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MargaretPellegrini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MargaretPellegrini-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"MargaretPellegrini\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MargaretPellegrini-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MargaretPellegrini.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Margaret Pellegrini, one of the last survivors of the troupe of actors who played the Munchkins in the 1939 classic The Wizard Of Oz, died yesterday after suffering a stroke in her home in Phoenix, AZ on Monday. She was 89.<\/p>\n<p>Pellegrini stood out among the group of little people cast in the film as the Munchkin woman with a flowerpot on her head. She can also be seen as one of the &#8220;sleepy head kids&#8221; in the lavish musical number that greeted Dorothy (Jud Garland) on her arrival to the magical land of Oz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MargaretPellegrini1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MargaretPellegrini1-300x225.gif\" alt=\"MargaretPellegrini1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MargaretPellegrini1-300x225.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MargaretPellegrini1-80x60.gif 80w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MargaretPellegrini1.gif 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Born in Margaret Williams in Tuscumbia, Alabama, she was recruited to join the vaudeville act Henry Kramer&#8217;s Midgets. Outside of her appearance in <strong>Oz<\/strong>, Pellegrini&#8217;s only other film appearance was in an uncredited role in the 1971 anti-war drama <strong>Johnny Got His Gun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>With her passing, Jerry Maren and Ruth Robinson Duccini become the final two remaining living Munchkin cast members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The actress was one of the last three Munchkins from the 1939 classic THE WIZARD OF OZ.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/08\/munchkin-margaret-pellegrini-89\/\" title=\"Munchkin Margaret Pellegrini, 89\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[6664,1627],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituary-news","8":"tag-margaret-pellegrini","9":"tag-the-wizard-of-oz"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29971"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=29971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}