Jerry Maren - Wizard of Oz Munchkin from Indiana's Wizard of Oz Festival - 2008

Jerry Maren, one of the original Singer Midgets that appeared in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz. Jerry and his wife, Elizabeth Barrington Maren, recreate Jerry handing the lollipop to Judy Garland from the Munchkinland sequence.

Jerry Maren (born January 24, 1920) is an American actor and one of only 4 confirmed surviving midget Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz the other three being Margaret Williams Pellegrini, Ruth Robinson Duccini and Karl Slover.

Maren was born Gerard Marenghi in Boston, Massachusetts. He acted in The Wizard of Oz playing a member of the Lollipop Guild (center in green), handing the lollipop to Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland). When Maren acted in The Wizard of Oz he stood three foot four inches (100 cm). As a young man he appeared in a local act known as "Three Steps and One Half."

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