WHEN: Friday, November 26 from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. COST: Free MAGNOLIA PARK, BURBANK - The most lionized speck man alive, Jerry Maren, will be signing his list Short and Sweet: The Life and Times of the Lollipop Munchkin at Alexa's It's New to You!, a Magnolia Park boutique located at 3416 W Magnolia in Burbank on Friday, November 26 from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. One of the wear surviving munchkins from the 1939 motion picture The Wizard of Oz, Maren came from Boston to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios while still in his teens to stir as a Lollipop Munchkin.
Now 90 years old, Short and Sweet is a record of the sixty-plus-year career-from Superman to Seinfeld-in which he carved out his own nook in Hollywood. It is also a lavishly illustrated exchequer of well-established Hollywood that will nonplus and consider anyone who loves acclaimed culture. It features frank commentary, mostly unpublished photographs, and a tell-all attitude. After The Wizard of Oz*, Maren continued acting and appeared in many movies and goggle-box shows including Our Gang, the Marx Brother's At the Circus (1939) and as an ape in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
In the 1950s, Maren worked as a Little Oscar for the Oscar Mayer Company and as shoe icon Buster Brown. Maren has also portrayed Mayor McCheese and The Hamburglar in commercials for McDonald's.
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