Growing up in the 1920s and ‘30s in Rush City, Ruth Robinson Duccini — at that time Ruth Robinson — didn’t know she would have a role in a film that would still be immensely popular around the time of her death, nearly eight decades later.
Duccini, about 4 feet tall, was one of the 126 little people who played the roles of Munchkins in the 1939 film, “The Wizard of Oz.”
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