TIL Ray Bolger, the actor who played Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz (1939) was asked if he got any residuals from telecasts of The Wizard of Oz, Bolger replyed: "No, just immortality. I'll settle for that."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bolger
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