One of the last remaining Munchkin characters from the 1939 MGM classic “Wizard of Oz” has died. Elaine Merk Binder, who performed as one of the film’s merry little people when she was 8 years old, ...

Elaine Merk Binder, one of the last surviving actors who played a Munchkin in the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz,” has died, according to her daughter Annette Phillips. She was 94. Binder auditioned ...

Elaine Merk Binder, who played one of the munchkins in The Wizard of Oz, has died at the age of 94. Binder’s daughter, Annette Phillips, confirmed the news of her mother’s death to TMZ on Sunday, ...

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Carson Besancon, Dekes Weber, Asher James Winters and Sebastian Ramirez in rehearsal for The Wizard of Oz at A.D. Players. Credit: Photo by Miranda Zaebst Why couldn’t the Royal Shakespeare Company ...

Elaine Merk Binder, one of the last surviving actors who played a Munchkin in the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz," has died, according to her daughter Annette Phillips. She was 94. Binder auditioned ...