Baby Snooks

Baby Snooks featured the legendary Fanny Brice, star of vaudeville, radio, and stage, as the little girl who is always, as someone I used to know would say, plucking her parents' last nerve. The character started in 1904 in a comic strip; Fanny Brice first performed her own "Baby Snooks" character in vaudeville in 1912 and performed her intermittently on stage and radio. The Baby Snooks series started in 1944 as fifteen-minute episodes, eventually expanding to a half-hour; the show lasted until 1951.

Brice brought her Baby Snooks character to other milieus, such as parades and guest appearances on other radio shows. She even portrayed Baby Snooks on television once, which led her to conclude that her portrayal of the character just did not work in a visual medium (Brice was 60 years old at the time).

As an aside, the musical Funny Girl, which made Barbra Streisand a star, was about Fanny Brice.

For more information, see Wikipedia.

Series description provided by Frank Bell.