Starting his career as the Lollipop Munchkin in the Wizard of Oz, Jerry Maren is perhaps the most famous little person alive. This text is a richly illustrated, tell-all memoir of an amazing career that has spanned more than 60 years.
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Starting his career as the Lollipop Munchkin in the Wizard of Oz, Jerry Maren is perhaps the most famous little person alive. This text is a richly illustrated, tell-all memoir of an amazing career that has spanned more than 60 years.
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Add this copy of Short and Sweet: the Life and Times of the Lollipop to cart. $7.31, good condition, Sold by Gulf Coast Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Memphis, TN, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Cumberland House.
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Very Good. 4to. xx, 201pp, index, num col & bw ills. Or pictorial card covers. Near new. After 70 years in showbusiness the author opens his archives. From the Wizard of OZ to McDonaldland he shares his unique perspective on performing alongside Lucille Ball, the Marx Brothers, Judy Garland, Christopher Reeves, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart and Jerry Seinfeld.
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Good. 2019 couple of light scrapes/dent on back cover Note: signed by author on title page "To Jeannie & Michael...Jerry maren, Lollipop Kid, follow the yellow brick road" Maren also signed his name on the front cover. And title page also signed by wife Elizabeth Maren. Another page is signed by Munchkins Margaret Pellegrini and Karl Slover, and there is a small sticker with Clarence Swensen's signature on it.
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Good. 9X7. Pages clean, color and black/white illustrations. Jerry Maren is perhaps the most famous little person alive. When he came from Boston to California's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios to work as the Lollipop Munchkins on THE WIZARD OF OZ, he was just over three feet tall. SHORT AND SWEET is his memoir of the sixty-plus-year career'from SUPERMAN to SEINFELD'in which he carved out his own niche in Hollywood. SHORT AND SWEET is a lavishly illustrated treasury of old Hollywood that will amaze and entertain anyone who loves popular culture. It features candid commentary, mostly unpublished photographs, and a tell-all attitude. Readers will learn such information as: ? How Jerry Maren ended up in Hollywood to make THE WIZARD OF OZ while still in his teens? Life on the set with Judy Garland and 120 little people? The truth about the rumors of drunken midget orgies and wild parties at the Culver Hotel? What it was like to work with the Marx Brothers and to have dinner at Groucho's home? USO tours during World War II with the midget wrestling act? Being hired to dress as a baby and pee on Jimmy Stewart at the actor's bachelor party? Watching SUPERMAN (George Reeves) plunge to the soundstage floor when a cable broke? Touring as Little Oscar in the Weinermobile, complete with its breakdowns on the highways? His experiences as Buster Brown on television in the 1950s? Working with the greats in radio and television: the OUR GANG comedies, Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Lucille Ball, Edgar Bergen, Andy Williams'and even Tiny Tim? Appearances on THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, STAR TREK, SUPERMAN, BEWITCHED, THE ODD COUPLE, GET SMART, LAUGH-IN, NIGHT COURT, SEINFELD, and many more? Performing at the White House dressed as Freddy the Frog? Headaches in the makeup chair on the set for THE PLANET OF THE APES? Working with Ronald McDonald in scores of colorful McDonald's commercials in the 1970s? Playing Mayor McCheese and the Hamburglar to millions of children. _PAB_
