Showing posts with label Fanny Brice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fanny Brice. Show all posts
Thursday, June 13, 2013
UNBELIEVABLE FIND! The only known video footage of Baby Snooks!!!
WOW! I've been searching for footage of Snooks for many years...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Crap shoot photo dump
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| Yep, another cast photo of The Life of Riley! |
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| Very rare; Lucy, Desi on radio together |
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| Abner and Lum and wives |
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| Amos 'n' Andy, 1950's |
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| Amos 'n' Andy, mid 1940's |
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| Charles Mc with Dick Powell |
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| hmmm |
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| Fanny Brice |
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Review: Baby Snooks
If there were 1,000 Baby Snooks audio clips out there, I would have them all and I might spend my time listening to nothing but them.
Baby Snooks was a character on shows with various titles in the late 1930's and all through the 1940's. Snooks was no baby or anything close to a child but a very mature actress named Fanny Brice. Brice was the subject of Barabra Streisand's motion picture in the late 1960's, Funny Girl.
Brice had been doing the Snooks character for years on stage. But when she came to radio, her sponsors did not want her to do the character. She did it anyway - and was a huge hit.
It's very hard to explain Snooks to someone that's never heard her. She is a terror but in a very funny way. She likes to create havoc, loves to torture her little baby brother and best of all, is the most-curious youngster in all of Radioland.
It is often I hear Snooks and howl out loud with laughter. It is amazing to me how Fanny Brice could have been so funny.
I knew nothing about Snooks until about 3 years ago. I had seen the name in OTR circles and probably had even heard my parents talk about her when I was younger. But I ignored the show, probably thinking it was for kids.
While I suppose kids loved the show, I frankly cannot think of a worse show for kids! Snooks is a terrible child and not at all innocent. But is she hilarious! Fibber McGee, Walter Tetley, Arnold Stang - no one holds a candle to Snooks when taken as a whole.
Her daddy, Hanley Stafford, is perfect for the role. He tries to educate her, gives her the patience she needs - then blows his top! But we all know there is no way to make Snooks straighten up and fly right... that's impossible.
As far as I can decree, there are no weak spots if you bypass the music on the surviving clips.
I give the various Baby Snooks clips 5 stars.
©Jimbo 2010/2011
Baby Snooks was a character on shows with various titles in the late 1930's and all through the 1940's. Snooks was no baby or anything close to a child but a very mature actress named Fanny Brice. Brice was the subject of Barabra Streisand's motion picture in the late 1960's, Funny Girl.
Brice had been doing the Snooks character for years on stage. But when she came to radio, her sponsors did not want her to do the character. She did it anyway - and was a huge hit.
It's very hard to explain Snooks to someone that's never heard her. She is a terror but in a very funny way. She likes to create havoc, loves to torture her little baby brother and best of all, is the most-curious youngster in all of Radioland.It is often I hear Snooks and howl out loud with laughter. It is amazing to me how Fanny Brice could have been so funny.
I knew nothing about Snooks until about 3 years ago. I had seen the name in OTR circles and probably had even heard my parents talk about her when I was younger. But I ignored the show, probably thinking it was for kids.
While I suppose kids loved the show, I frankly cannot think of a worse show for kids! Snooks is a terrible child and not at all innocent. But is she hilarious! Fibber McGee, Walter Tetley, Arnold Stang - no one holds a candle to Snooks when taken as a whole.
Her daddy, Hanley Stafford, is perfect for the role. He tries to educate her, gives her the patience she needs - then blows his top! But we all know there is no way to make Snooks straighten up and fly right... that's impossible.
As far as I can decree, there are no weak spots if you bypass the music on the surviving clips.
I give the various Baby Snooks clips 5 stars.
©Jimbo 2010/2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Awesome photos: part one
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| Agnes Moorehead |
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| Art Carney |
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| Fanny Brice doing Baby Snooks |
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| Cast of Dr. Christian; the man in the upper-left is Gale Gordon |
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| Gene Autry, early 1930's |
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| Judy Canova; a beautiful girl behind that country front |
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| Mary Livingstone and Phil Harris |
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| Ed Gardner |
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