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Jakob "Jackie" Gerlich

Index Jakob "Jackie" Gerlich

Jakob E. "Jackie" Gerlich (September 21, 1917 – December 27, 1960) was an American dwarf actor and circus entertainer most notable for his appearance in the 1939 American film The Wizard of Oz. [1]

25 relations: Austria-Hungary, Cancer, Clarence Swensen, Dwarfism, East Side of Heaven, Florida, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Jerry Maren, Karl Slover, Leo Singer, Margaret Pellegrini, Meinhardt Raabe, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mickey Carroll, Mike Wallace, Milwaukee, Munchkin, New York City, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Ruth Duccini, Sarasota, Florida, SS President Roosevelt (1921), The Doll Family, The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), Vienna.

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy in English-language sources, was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire (the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, or Cisleithania) and the Kingdom of Hungary (Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen or Transleithania) that existed from 1867 to 1918, when it collapsed as a result of defeat in World War I. The union was a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and came into existence on 30 March 1867.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Clarence Swensen

August Clarence Swensen (December 29, 1917 – February 25, 2009) was an American actor and was one of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz''.

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Dwarfism

Dwarfism, also known as short stature, occurs when an organism is extremely small.

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East Side of Heaven

East Side of Heaven is a 1939 American musical film directed by David Butler and written by William M. Conselman and James V. Kern.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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Jerry Maren

Gerard Marenghi (January 24, 1920 – May 24, 2018), known as Jerry Maren, was an American actor who played a Munchkin member of the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 MGM film, The Wizard of Oz. He became the last surviving Munchkin following the death of Ruth Duccini on January 16, 2014, and was also the last surviving cast member with a speaking or singing role.

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Karl Slover

Karl Slover (September 21, 1918 – November 15, 2011) was an American actor best known as one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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Leo Singer

Leopold "Leo" von Singer (May 3, 1877 – March 5, 1951) was an American manager of an entertainment troupe called Singer's Midgets, that were a popular vaudeville group in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Margaret Pellegrini

Margaret Pellegrini (née Williams; September 23, 1923 – August 7, 2013) was an American actress, vaudeville performer and dancer, best known for playing one of the Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Until her death in 2013, she was one of the three surviving munchkins, the other two being Jerry Maren and Ruth Robinson Duccini.

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Meinhardt Raabe

Meinhardt Frank Raabe (September 2, 1915 – April 9, 2010) was an American actor.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Mickey Carroll

Mickey Carroll (July 8, 1919 – May 7, 2009) was an American actor child actor, who worked in radio and film, and was one of the last surviving munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

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Mike Wallace

Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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Munchkin

The Munchkins are the natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Ringling Bros.

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Ruth Duccini

Ruth Leone Duccini (née Robinson; July 23, 1918 – January 16, 2014) was an American actress, who became the penultimate surviving Munchkin from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

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Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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SS President Roosevelt (1921)

SS President Roosevelt was an ocean liner in service in the 1920s and 1930s.

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The Doll Family

The Doll Family, also billed as The Dancing Dolls, were an American quartet of dwarf siblings born in Germany, who were popular performers in circuses and sideshows in the United States from the mid-1910s until their retirement in the late-1950s.

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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Jackie Gerlich, Jakob E. Gerlich, Jakob Gerlich.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_"Jackie"_Gerlich

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