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TIL there is still one actor from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz alive, Caren Marsh Doll, who was Judy Garland's stand-in, and it is in fact her feet seen in the film when Dorothy taps the heels of the slippers together. Caren is 105 years old.

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