Jerry Maren Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Jerry Maren (born January 24, 1920) is an American actor and one of only three confirmed surviving dwarf munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The other two surviving munchkin cast members are Margaret Williams Pellegrini and Ruth Robinson Duccini, making Maren the last surviving male Munchkin from the film. Maren was born Gerard Marenghi in Boston. 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... MORE

Jerry Maren (born January 24, 1920) is an American actor and one of only three confirmed surviving dwarf munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The other two surviving munchkin cast members are Margaret Williams Pellegrini and Ruth Robinson Duccini, making Maren the last surviving male Munchkin from the film. Maren was born Gerard Marenghi in Boston. 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." The same year as The Wizard of Oz, Maren also appeared in an Our Gang feature, 'Tiny Troubles', playing criminal 'Light-Fingered Lester'. After The Wizard of Oz Maren continued acting and appeared in many movies and television shows. Some of these appearances were in the Our Gang comedy shorts, the Marx Brothers At The Circus (1939) and as an ape in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). He is also featured, along with fellow munchkin Billy Curtis, in American International Pictures' release Little Cigars (1973), about a gang of LESS