Auntie Sal bought the boys Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on DVD (the 1971 Gene Wilder version, not the latest Johnny Depp version). Working in the factory are a tribe of unusual humans, called the Oompah Loompahs. They have orange faces and green hair. And they are 3 feet tall. One of the extras on the DVD is the obligatory "making of", with these interesting interviews shedding light on casting the Oompah Loompahs.
[Deeply tanned greying 3 foot tall actor, voice like Sir Laurence Olivier] Of course we were shooting in Germany, and there was terrible trouble finding actors of smaller stature who could speak English, so a number of us were brought over from Britain...
[Cut to producer Mel Stuart, broad Brooklyn accent]. We had a lotta problems gettin' the midgets...
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