Wizard of Oz Suicide: Did the Munchkin commit suicide during a scene of the movie?
Grace W. Bush
2008/12/15 20:01:39
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The Wizard of Oz is a great classic movie. But did you know that one of the characters who played the Munchkin commit suicide during the filming? In fact, in a scene from the Wizard of Oz you can actually see the Munchkin committing suicide by hanging itself in the background. Is not clearly visible, but if you look closely the suicide happens. The suicide scene allegedly takes place when Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man head down the yellow brick road, on their way to Emerald City. Deep in the background, a dark figure can be seen. Some say that a distraught munchkin hanged himself. The story says that he was upset because the female munchkin that he loved didn’t feel the same way for him. He then decided to kill himself right on set. Others say that it was a clumsy stagehand who accidentally fell out of a prop tree onto the set, getting caught in a cable of some sort, and was strangled to death. This is my biggest concern, if an actual suicide did happen, why would they keep it on the final movie? Why not just redo the scene? Why not edit the scene out. In the newer DVD version of this movie, this scene has been taken out. We’ll probably never know what really happened on set but what do you think?
Suicide scene: Look closely in the background. The munchkin commits suicide in the movie.
A closer look:
Suicide scene: Look closely in the background. The munchkin commits suicide in the movie.
A closer look:
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Carrie Ordonez 2009/06/15 02:10:34The Wizard of Oz suicide is fake, there was no real suicide!
+9Now I know that they let birds like crows or bluebirds fly in the scene but what I don't know is that they propaly (I can't spell good) let large birds enter the scene.It would be like a Emu (a large bird)wonder soooooooo no,no suicide just a bird
Copy and paste and just look at this video of the original filming of the movie. Its something different in the background and clearly is not a bird. It looks exactly like a human swinging back and forth.
tnt..
And had him hanged lol
but what the guy shows there is a freaky bird XD
Not a word of truth in it. I LIVED in LA during the filming of the movie there would have been many news stories about it. Never could have kept it quiet, with all the stage hands, photographers, cinema photographers, actors, directors, set designers, lighting techs, sound techs, etc.. Word would have been out, before long even if they tried to keep it quiet.. The editors would have KNOWN if it happened, and edited it out to protect the family.
To begin with, the Forest Scenes in the movie were created BEFORE any filming of the actors took place. So there were not any Munchkins on the set. They were filmed later, and spliced into the appropriate places in the movie.
The Police would have also been on the scene investigating and all production would have stopped for days. Editors and Film Cutters would have had orders to remove the scenes involved. Yet nothing exists in the records of the police or newspaper archives.