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Actors Mickey Carroll (C) poses with fellow actors Jerry Maren (L) and Karl Slover, who all portrayed Munchkins in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz", as they join striking members of the Writers Guild of America on the picket line in Burbank, California in this November 16, 2007 file photo. Carroll, one of the last surviving diminutive "Munchkins" in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz," died of natural causes on May 7, 2009 in Missouri at age 89, a newspaper reported.