Munchkin Dinner

Recently, I had the honor of eating dinner with my grandparents and my grandmother’s dear friend Margaret Pellegrini at Outback Steakhouse in Long Beach. Both my grandma and Margaret played Munchkins in the Wizard of Oz.

When casting for The Wizard of Oz, the male little people outnumbered the female little people. To compensate, they casted young children actors such as my grandma to play Munchkins. Today, there are three living children Munchkins and four little people Munchkins.

Margaret lived with my grandmother and her parents. To this day, they still talk about the fun times they had with my grandmothers’ family and meals they shared together back in the late 1930’s. Margaret is a huge Tabasco fan! 

Margaret's close friends Tim and Kyle, her great and great great grand daughters, Stephen Cox, author of “The Munchkins Remember," my grandparents Bud and Priscilla Clark (Priscilla Montgomery), my brother Nick and myself attended this special dinner we will be sure to never forget.