baby snooks

Baby Snooks was an iconic and wildly popular character through the late thirties, the war years and the end of the forties, into the fifties.

Fanny Brice had joined so many other Vaudeville greats who jumped to radio when Vaudeville collapsed and died. Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, Connie Boswell, Fred Allen, George Jessel, and so many others had a journey from Vaude to Airwaves but they didn’t have to reinvent themselves to do it.

Fanny became so identified with Baby Snooks that a whole generation grew up loving Snooks but ignorant of the Fanny that decades before spent thousands of glorious nights getting laughs, singing, dancing and basking in the love of the rich and powerful New York theater goers in the greatest theater town in the world.

Anyone born after 1936 never got to see that Fanny. The great Fanny Brice who was a legend before Snooks. The great Fanny Brice who for a time outshone every other star on the great white way.