Margaret Pellegrini


Margaret Pellegrini was an American actress, vaudeville performer and dancer, best known for playing one of the munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Until her death in 2013, she was one of the three surviving munchkins, the other two being Jerry Maren and Ruth Robinson Duccini.

She was born Margaret Williams in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When she was helping a relative in a potato chip booth at the Tennessee State Fair, a group of little people came by and asked if she wanted to join their show, Henry Kramers Midgets. At that time I didnt think I was a midget, says Pellegrini . In the film, Pellegrini played a sleepyhead flower pot and Munchkin villager. After the film, she married Willie Pellegrini and had two children. Through the years, Pellegrini frequently appeared at surviving Munchkins of Oz festivities.

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