The memoirs of Judy Garland's third husband, Sid Luft, claims the child star was assaulted by Munchkins on the set of The Wizard Of Oz.

Luft's posthumous biography, Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland, alleges some of the actors put their hands up her skirt as Garland, then 16-years-old, filmed the 1939 Oscar-nominated musical. There were 225 Munchkins in the cast.

He said, in an excerpt quoted by The Sun: "They thought they could get away with anything because they were so small. They would make Judy's life miserable on set by putting their hands under her dress. The men were 40 or more years old."

Garland and Luft were married from 1952 to 1965, and he is credited with turning around her career after MGM tore up her contract.