(FOX NEWS) – Buddy Ebsen had a brush with death before he found fame as a hillbilly in Beverly Hills.
The actor, who would have turned 115 on April 2, was originally cast at the Tin Woodman in 1939’s “The Wizard of Oz.” But the chance to walk down the yellow brick road proved to be a slippery slope that nearly ended his Hollywood career and his life.
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“I didn’t know much about ‘The Wizard of Oz,’” his daughter Kiki Ebsen admitted to Fox News Digital. After the actor passed away in 2003 at age 95, the singer/songwriter/pianist came across a trunk, a treasure trove filled with memorabilia from his decades-long career which dates back to the 1920s. It has since compelled her to launch a one-woman show titled “My Buddy: The Other Side of Oz.”
