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Meet Ruth Duccini, a Munchkin from ‘The Wizard of Oz’

Yellow Brick Road

At 94, she’s the oldest surviving little person from the 1939 classic about the Yellow Brick Road. Ruth Duccini shares her memories of Dorothy with Ramin Setoodeh.

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In 2009 I did a video interview with the five surviving Munchkins from the The Wizard of Oz: Ruth Duccini, Meinhardt Raabe, Margaret Pellegrini, Karl Slover, and Jerry Maren.

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