Paul Winchell was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, humanitarian, and inventor whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. From 1950 to 1954, he hosted The Paul Winchell Show, which also used two other titles during its prime time run on NBC: The Speidel Show, and What's My Name? From 1965 to 1968, Winchell hosted the children's television series Winchell-Mahoney Time.
Winchell in 1951
Winchell with Jerry Mahoney (left) and Knucklehead Smiff (right) in 1958.
Winchell with his older daughter and Jerry Mahoney in the Howdy Doody studio audience, c. 1948
Tigger is a fictional character in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books and their adaptations; an anthropomorphic toy tiger. He was originally introduced in the 1928 story collection The House at Pooh Corner, the sequel to the 1926 book Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed toy animals. He appears in the Disney animated versions of Winnie the Pooh and has also appeared in his own film, The Tigger Movie (2000).
Tigger, as he appears in The Tigger Movie
The real stuffed toys owned by Christopher Robin and featured in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. Clockwise from bottom left: Tigger, Kanga, Edward Bear (a.k.a. Winnie-the-Pooh), Eeyore, and Piglet. They were on display in the Donnell Library Center in New York City, until it closed in 2008, when they were relocated to the Children's Room in the Main Branch.
