Having given you many horrific tales of things that happened on the set of this movie, it feels like it's about time to give you one that didn't. For years, it was rumored that one of the actors playing a Munchkin hung himself on set. Given the level of pay they were getting compared to a dog, it wouldn't be surprising if they were upset. But it didn't happen.
The rumor actually comes from the scene we've pictured here - there's a dark shape in the trees as our happy gang skips away down the road, which does look a little like a body. In fact, it's a bird that was being used in another film production by MGM, which had somehow escaped onto the set. We'd like to think that even this production crew would have stopped filming had someone actually died.