Drunken orgies with hookers. No - not Charlie Sheen's autobiography.
The last munchkin passed away in April 2010 and I watched The Wizard of Oz for the first time in years with Grace and Gwyneth while in Cali in January. Then, for some reason, I was looking up Charlie Chaplin's studio on the Internet - long story short, I ended up reading about how the munchkins stayed at The Culver Hotel in Culver City (where I lived the last 3 years I was in Cali - the city, not the hotel) while filming Oz.
Not "angels" - those munchkins, according to some connected to the movie.
Judy Garland said, "They got smashed every night and the police had to pick them up in butterfly nets."
Cowardly lion Bert Lahr stated, "Many of the Munchkins were midgets who, in fact, made their living by panhandling, pimping and whoring."
And MGM Studios producer Mervyn Leroy commented, "They got into sex orgies at the hotel. We had to have police on every floor."
Those silly, damn, crazy munchkins!
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