Career
Her dwarf brother Franz Balluck also appeared as a Munchkin in that same film. Coincidentally, their Oz co-star Jakob "Jackie" Gerlich was also originally from Vienna. While Balluck"s role in Oz was uncredited, subsequent books list her as a Munchkin actor.
Leopold von Singer signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to provide 124 proportionately-sized little people to play Munchkins in Ounces
Gerlich was recruited because of her dwarfism and was paid $125 a week for her work. Balluck died in 1984.
In 2007, all 124 Munchkin actors in Oz were honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Foreign Balluck this was a posthumous honor.
Seven surviving Munchkin actors attended the ceremony, including Mickey Carroll, Ruth Duccini, Jerry Maren, Margaret Pellegrini, Meinhardt Raabe, Karl Slover and Clarence Swensen.
