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" The so-called "Munchkin suicide" scene is at the very end of the Tin Woodsman sequence, as Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman go down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City.

For Marvel's look, the director wanted a kind of seedy gentility, so the costume department went down to a second-hand store and picked out a bunch of coats.

Now they could study it with a fine tooth comb, extract every possible scrap of pleasure from it, invest it with new readings to fit the modern mindset and embroider its hems with previously unknown yarns or unseen images.

Also, the Tin Man was poisoned by the aluminum in his make-up and ended up in hospital.

How else do you explain illogical phenomena like organised religions and Susan Boyle? 15, 1939, Hollywood premiere of the film classic The Wizard of Oz, the story of a tornado that hits Kansas and transports a young girl named Dorothy, played by Judy Garland, to a magical place called Oz, where she embarks on a journey to track down the wizard who can help her go home.

While a great story, this is also.

The official line from the movie makers has always been that it was a bird, but that has done little to stem the urban legend with the YouTube video apparently showing the scene watched by more than 2.

While most may remember the turban the professor is wearing in the scene, the jacket he also has on happened to once belong to the Wizard of Oz author, L.

It looked like a Munchkin, and the story was this little fellow was one of the dwarf actors brought in who committed suicide after being rejected by another female dwarf who was also acting as a Munchkin.

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