{"id":32097,"date":"2014-01-16T22:24:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=32097"},"modified":"2014-01-16T22:24:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:24:59","slug":"ruth-robinson-duccini-wizard-of-ozs-last-surviving-female-munchkin-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/16\/ruth-robinson-duccini-wizard-of-ozs-last-surviving-female-munchkin-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Robinson Duccini, WIZARD OF OZ&#8217;s Last Surviving Female Munchkin, 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Duccini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Duccini-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"Duccini\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Duccini-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Duccini.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>Ruth Robinson Duccini, who was the last surviving female from the group of 124 little people actors who portrayed the Munchkins in 1939&#8217;s <strong>The Wizard Of Oz<\/strong>, has died in Las Vegas after a brief illness. She was 95.<\/p>\n<p>Born Ruth Robinosn in Rush City, Minn. in 1918, Duccini only appeared in two films. The first was MGM&#8217;s classic adaptation of the L. Frank Baum story and the second was the 1981 comedy inspired by urban legends about the making of <strong>The Wizard Of Oz<\/strong>, <strong>Under The Rainbow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It while was working on the MGM lot that Duccini met her future husband Fred Duccini. The two married in 1942.<\/p>\n<p>With the passing of Duccini, the only Munchikin actor remaining from the <strong>Wizard Of Oz<\/strong> cast is Jerry Maren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Her WIZARD OF OZ appearance was just one of two that the actress made on the big screen.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/16\/ruth-robinson-duccini-wizard-of-ozs-last-surviving-female-munchkin-95\/\" title=\"Ruth Robinson Duccini, WIZARD OF OZ&#8217;s Last Surviving Female Munchkin, 95\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32103,"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":[1627],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituary-news","8":"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\/32097","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=32097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32097"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=32097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}