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Marie Raabe; Performed With Vaudeville Group of Midgets

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Marie Raabe, 82, entertainer who performed with Rose’s Royal Midgets. She worked with the troupe, the largest group of midgets in vaudeville, from 1929 to 1932. For 51 years, she was married to Meinhart Raabe, another midget actor who played the Munchkin coroner in the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz.” On Wednesday in Penney Farms, Fla., of injuries suffered in an automobile accident, which also injured her husband.

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