Elly Annie Schneider

The Doll Family

Elly Annie Schneider (July 23, 1914 – September 6, 2004) was an actress and a member of The Dancing Dolls who played one of the Munchkin villagers in The Wizard of Oz 1939.

Born in Stolpen, Germany, she moved to the United States in 1925 to join her 3 dwarf siblings. She was 39 inches (99 cm) tall and weighed 46 pounds (21 kg).

The Doll Family

The four siblings—Harry, Gracie, Daisy, and Tiny—were among the dwarfs who welcomed Dorothy to Munchkinland in a 10-minute scene in The Wizard of Oz. They also appeared in Sailors, Beware, a 1927 Laurel and Hardy short, and the cult classic Freaks in 1932, and performed with the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus and the Christiana Brothers Circus.

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