Everyone loves an Easter egg, and what could be better than an Easter egg of someone actually committing suicide onscreen in the classic film The Wizard of Oz? Well, a lot of things could be better. Hello, Faces of Death in one of the most beloved children's movies of all time. Can you believe no one noticed?
Come on! Of course someone would have noticed, but that little bit of logic didn't deter the spread of this particular story, which goes like this: Dorothy and Scarecrow meet Tin Man. Dorothy, Scarecrow, and Tin Man skip off into the forest. Munchkin hangs himself in the distance. Film keeps rolling.
This never happened, and the myth has really only persisted because most people watch The Wizard of Oz on a small screen. If you squint and tap your heels together three times and think to yourself, "There's no place like a movie set for ending one's own life," you might actually convince yourself that the shadow in the distance is a Munchkin on the end of a rope. The much more boring truth is that MGM thought it would be fun and whimsical to turn a bunch of turkeys and peacocks loose on set. If you watch the scene on a big screen, it's clear that the shadow is that of a large bird, not a swinging extra. So the only real story here is that Dorothy and her pals were probably skipping down the Yellow Brick Road through extra-large piles of bird poop.
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