![]() ![]() The rest of the group, including Maren, were dubbed by other actors. Only two of the actors playing Munchkins actually said their lines in the movie. 47! Greens man on the right side, straighten that out!’ ” “When the cameraman saw one leaf dangling he would say, ‘Tree No. “They had to have five on each side of the set because it was so large,” Maren says. He remembers the 10 greens men employed to take care of all the plants, trees and flowers on the set. “They would say, ‘Can we have five Munchkins over here?’ And I was the first one there.” (Of 127 little people who performed in “Oz,” only 10 are living.) “When I first came out here, I said I am going to be in every possible scene so my mother can see me, because who knows what will be cut,” he says. Maren, 81, played one of the Lollipop Guild Munchkins and appeared in numerous other scenes. That is the place people wanted to go to. “I think, particularly, the Munchkinland sequence is about the best-realized 10 minutes of joy,” Carroll says. Especially the candy-colored Munchkinland. ![]()
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