Name Elly Schneider Role Actress | Movies Freaks | |
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Siblings Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Gracie Doll Similar People Daisy Earles, Harry Earles, Tod Browning, Edgar Allan Woolf, Dwain Esper Born 23 July 1914 (age 90), Stolpen, Germany Died 6 September 2004 (aged 90) , Sarasota, Florida, United States | ||
Elly Annie Schneider (July 23, 1914 – September 6, 2004) was an American dwarf actress, billed as Tiny Doll and Tiny Earles, and a member of The Dancing Dolls with her three siblings who played one of the Munchkin villagers in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
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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.