Chesterton Indianas annual WIZARD OF OZ parade as well as their many Ozthemed festivities provides the backdrop for I MARRIED A MUNCHKIN Tom Palazzolos study of the life and career of Mary Ellen St Aubin Selfdescribed as normal but little Mary Ellen details her early start in show business as a performer in an alldwarf vaudeville act her brief appearance in 1946s THREE WISE FOOLS her 1948 marriage to former Munchkin Parnell St Aubin and their subsequent retirement from entertainment to run a bar called the Midget Club in the South Side of Chicago Two other former Munchkins Margaret Pellegrini and Clarence Swensen briefly appear among the days revelry Also included is a postscript shot some time after the initial film featuring Mary Ellen briefly describing the original size of her role in THREE WISE FOOLS which originally featured a line and an illfated flying effect Tom Fritsche
