Is there really a Suicide Scene in Wizard of Oz where the short guy kills himself?

Question

Yeah the Munchkin, i saw the video, and that actually looks like some lil dude killin himself back there while all 3 assholes are dancing along, they could of saved him. Also, didnt Dorothy Actor Judy Garland commit suicide?

Answer 1

Follow this link.

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozsuicid.htm

Answer 2

There were no A$$holes, and there was no suicide... Garlands or other wise (Judy Garland's official death certificate stated the reason/cause as: ACCIDENTAL overdose of Barbituates. 4.9 mg of Seconal, a seditive, was found in her bloodstream.
The unusual movement in the background of the scene described above was noticed years ago, and it was often attributed to a stagehand's accidentally being caught on the set after the cameras started rolling (or, more spectacularly, a stagehand's falling out of a prop tree into the scene). With the advent of home video, viewing audiences were able to rewind and replay the scene in question, view it in slow-motion, and look at individual frames in the sequence (all on screens smaller and less distinct than those of theaters), and stories began to ran wild. The change in focus of the rumor from a hapless stagehand to a suicidal munchkin seems to have coincided with the heavy promotion and special video re-release of The Wizard of Oz in celebration of its 50th anniversary in 1989: someone made up the story of a diminutive actor who, suffering the pangs of unrequited love for a female "little person," decided to end it all right there on the set, and soon everyone was eager to share this special little film "secret" with others. Since there were a great deal of horrbly exagerrated tales of munchkin lechery and drunken misbehavior on the "Oz" set had been circulating for years. In interviews it was Judy Garland herself that perpetucated the tales on onset antics, and the wild suicide story had some seeming background plausibility to it. (Other versions of the rumor combined elements from both explanations, such as the claim that the strange figure was actually a stagehand hanging himself or a light that had fallen from an electric rail)

Answer 3

It's just rumor. Judy Garland did NOT commit suicide.
Nor did any suicide happen on the set of Oz. why wouldn't something of been said years ago then if that was true?

There is no way there was any suicide.

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/minnelli%20convinced%20garland%20did%20not%20commit%20suicide_04_02_2006

Answer 4

ya know, just the other day we were talking about that at lunch at school. some people said mr. b. (our art teacher) was talking about that. i don't know if it's true or not. but i'm sure Judy Garland didn't commit suicide.

Answer 5

nope....it does look like that, and it had me fooled for a little while, i haven't seen it in a while but i'm pretty sure it's a bird in the background. if you have it on DVD and your DVD player has a zoom feature...check it out.

and yes, Judy Garland did commit suicide