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Fanny Brice  Radio Creator, Performer

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Fanny Brice

The Fleischman Yeast Hour, 1936

This guest appearance presents a typical example of Fanny Brice’s Baby Snooks characterization, as she confronts the school principal about her desire to learn on her own terms.
 
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Career Includes

Radio Actress, Ziegfeld Follies of the Air, CBS (1936), Revue de Paree (1936), Good News, NBC (1938–40), Maxwell House Coffee Time, NBC (1940–44), Toasties Time (The Fanny Brice Show), CBS (1944–45), The Baby Snooks Show, CBS (1944–49) and NBC (1949–51)
 

Education

Public schools
 

Born

October 29, 1891
New York, New York

 

Died

May 29, 1951
Los Angeles, California

 

 

 

 

 

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