14. The uncredited Mickey Carroll performed many of the voiceovers for the film
Mickey Carroll was one of the actors hired to portray a Munchkin, after which his talents were utilized for many other sequences in the film. He first appears, in the final version of the film, voicing the screams of Auntie Em as she vainly calls for Dorothy with the twister bearing down on the farm. When Dorothy arrives at Munchkin Land he appears as the Town Crier. When the Lollipop Guild saunters up to Dorothy singing it is Carroll providing the voiceover for the song welcoming her to Munchkin Land. He provided several other voice overs, since most actors portraying Munchkins could not speak English.
It was he who provided one of the film’s most famous lines, in several different voices. It was the Mayor of Munchkin City, in Carroll’s voice, inviting her to, “Follow the Yellow Brick Road”. He appeared yet again as one of the Fiddlers who, along with the other Munchkins, escorted Dorothy to the edge of Munchkin Land. Carroll lived to see the 21st century before he died in 2009, one of the last actors whose voice is heard in the film to die.