News, Munchkin actors get star on Walk of Fame. (film, Hollywood, theatre)

[John1960]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Almost 70 years after "The Wizard of Oz" premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, a few of the film's Munchkins made a grand entrance there Tuesday to receive a collective star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Seven of the surviving actors who played the inhabitants of Munchkinland in the 1939 classic attended the ceremony, arriving in a horse-drawn carriage and trailed by a marching band.

A yellow carpet, resembling the film's yellow brick road, led them to the stage. One tap-danced, and another sang.

"We love you; you have touched our hearts," former Munchkin Mickey Carroll, 88, told the crowd.

Carroll was joined by former Munchkin colleagues Ruth Duccini, Jerry Maren, Margaret Pellegrini, Meinhardt Raabe, Karl Slover and Clarence Swensen.

Munchkin actors get star on Walk of Fame - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/21/munchkins.ap/index.html - broken link)

[CalliesMom]

One of my favorite movies

[LaoTzuMindFu]

What surprised me is that they all aged very well. You can still tell who was who in the movie. It was great to see them.