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'Oz' Munchkin Dies Days After Hollywood Blvd. Visit

Karl Slover died Tuesday at the age of 93.

One of the last living actors to play a Munchkin in the 1939 film "Wizard of Oz" has died. 

Karl Slover died Tuesday at the age of 93. Slover had just visited and Hollywood Palms this weekend, appearing at on Sunday. 

Slover played the lead trumpeter in the Munchkins’ band but also played a townsman and solider in the film, according to the AP. He was 4-foot-5. 

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