OSCAR MAYER WEINER TV COMMERCIAL CAST - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: JERRY MAREN, MEINHARDT RAABE, GEORGE A. MOLCHAN, JOE WHITE - HFSID 250886

LITTLE OSCARS: JERRY MAREN, MEINHARDT RAABE, GEORGE A. MOLCHAN, JOE WHITE
B/w publicity photo of Little OscarsJerry Maren, Meinhardt Raabe, George A. Molchan and Joe White as Oscar Mayer spokesmen
Photograph signed "George A./Molchan", "Joe/White", "Meinhardt/Raabe" and "Jerry/Maren". B/w, 7¾x9¾ overall, 7¼x8¾ image, one surface. All four signers are depicted in this photograph as "Little Oscar", company mascots that Oscar Mayer & Co. introduced in 1936, the same year that they introduced the Weinermobile. This photo was something of a reunion for Raabe and Maren: both appeared as Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz (1939). White also appeared in the Wizard of Oz-based comedy Under the Rainbow (1981) as an "Inebriated Munchkin". After his film debut as leader of the Lollipop Guild in The Wizard of Oz (1939), Maren (1920-2018) appeared that same year in two other movies calling for midgets: Our Gang's Tiny Troubles and the Marx Brothers' At the Circus. He played Buster Brown in ads for the shoe company of the same name and threw confetti at the end of TV's Gong Show (1976-1978). He also appeared in an un credited role as a Mole Man in the 1951 Superman movie Superman and the Mole-Men and worked as a Little Oscar for Oscar Mayer & Co. in the 1950's. A quarter century after his first films, he starred in Little Cigars (1973). RAABE (b. 1915) was cast as Munchkinland's coroner in The Wizard of Oz (1939). He later joined the Civil air Patrol during World War II and worked as a Little Oscar for Oscar Mayer & Co. Raabe published an autobiography, Memories of a Munchkin: An Illustrated Walk Down the Yellow Brick Road. MOLCHAN (1922-2005) was hired by Oscar Mayer & Co. from 1951 to 1987 and worked as a Little Oscar for the company at Disney World's Town Square Cafe. WHITE (1925-2001) quit school at Harvard University when he was 18 to work as a clown in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was hired by Oscar Mayer & Co. to portray Little Oscar, a company mascot, a role he performed in other shows. White appeared in the Wizard of Oz-based comedy Under the Rainbow (1981), where he was billed as an "Inebriated Munchkin". He also was a magician who published five books on magic and was billed as The World's Smallest Magician and Mentalist. Lightly toned and bowed. Otherwise, fine condition.