Vedic Horoscope for Formica, Fern

American dwarf singer, dancer and actress (also known as Johnnie Fern or Johnny Fern) who appeared most notably as a Munchkin villager and 'sleepyhead' in the original 1939 The Wizard of Oz movie. Other film roles included Diamond Dolly (the saloon bar girl) in Terror Of Tiny Town (1938), and a little girl (alongside Gary Cooper) in Meet John Doe (1941). Formica also doubled for Shirley Temple in the 1934 movie Bright Eyes, playing parts where Temple was facing away from the camera. Her curly blonde hair was like Temple's and they were the same size. Before the movies, Fern Formica worked in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Diego at the El Cortez Hotel, singing and dancing with Billy Barty among others. She died on 23 January 1995 in Riverside, California.Sy Scholfield quotes "The Munchkins Remember: 'The Wizard of Oz' and Beyond" by Stephen Cox (E.P. Dutton, 1989), p. 55: "She worked as one of his troupe in the Midget Village at the San Diego World's Fair, then costarred in The Terror of Tiny Town with forty other midgets. Born on January 17, 1925, 'at ten-thirty in the morning on a Saturday,' she says M-G-M didn't know she was only thirteen years old when she acted as what she calls a 'Munchkin Maid.'"