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How did Clara 'Auntie Em' Blandick take her own life?

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How did Clara 'Auntie Em' Blandick take her own life?

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Auntie Em is one of the most beloved figures on probably the most popular movie of all time: The Wizard of Oz. But actually, when the film was made, her name appears on the credits below the last of the flying monkeys, so she wasn't given much credit for her role. Towards the end of her life her fame did nothing to give her any kinds of future jobs, and she was determined to kill herself - and not only took a number of sleeping pills, but in order to speed up the process, she tied a plastic garbage bag over her head to make sure it would definitely work.

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