One of the last surviving actors in “ The Wizard of Oz ” is dead at age 94.

Elaine Merk Binder, who played a Munchkin in the 1939 movie, died on Sunday, her daughter Annette Phillips announced . A cause of death was not given.

According to Variety , Binder was 8 years old when she filmed her uncredited role in the classic MGM film based on Central New York native L. Frank Baum ’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” novels. Binder was one of eight children who danced and sang as part of the Munchkin ensemble, most notably appearing in a dark green dress and hat in the second little house up the steps during the song “Come Out, Come Out.”

“I tried out for the ‘Wizard of Oz’ Munchkins. For me it was scary. It was my first big call for girls from a major studio,” Binder said, according to

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