Baby Snooks
The Baby Snooks Show was an American radio program starring Fanny Brice as a mischievous young girl. The series began on CBS September 17, 1944, airing on Sunday evenings at 6:30pm as Toasties Time. The title soon changed to The Baby Snooks Show, and was sometimes called Baby Snooks and Daddy. On November 9, 1949, the series moved to NBC where it was heard Tuesdays at 8:30pm.

Fanny Brice was born on October 29, 1891 and found early fame starring in the Ziegfield Follies from 1911 to 1923. It was on Ziegfield Follies of the Air that Baby Snooks took her first hilarious step. The Snooks sketches began as a regular feature in 1937 on the variety show Good News, and became the main attraction on Maxwell House Coffee Time in 1940.

In 1944 the impish problem child began her own radio program. The sponsors included Post cereals, Sanka coffee, Spic-n-Span, Tums antacid, and Jell-O. The musical theme was "Rock-A-Bye Baby."

Brice herself was so meticulous and fanatical about the character that, she dressed in a baby-doll dress for the studio audience, and she also appeared in the costume at parades and personal appearances. She also insisted on her script being printed in extremely large type so she could avoid having to use reading glasses when on the air live.

The series ended with Fanny's unexpected, untimely demise at the age of 59 in 1951. No one could replace her in the title role of Snooks. And no one did. A tribute program was aired the week following her death.


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mp3 Abnormal Pyschology - 05/28/1942
mp3 Anatomy of a Robot - 02/08/1940
mp3 At the Doctors - 06/09/1938
mp3 Baby Brother - 03/28/1940
mp3 Baby Fish Story - 04/11/1940
mp3 Baby Snooks is Lost - 12/16/1945
mp3 Barking Rabbit - 05/11/1939
mp3 Bungling Burglars - 01/04/1940
mp3 Cat Mans Revenge - 06/19/1946
mp3 Daddy is an Elk - 01/22/1939
mp3 Family Tree - 02/01/1940
mp3 Football Game - 10/10/1940
mp3 Four Fathers - 11/21/1940
mp3 Golf Tea - 05/18/1939
mp3 Gone Fishing - 06/01/1939
mp3 Haunted House - 12/12/1940
mp3 Laying an Egg - 03/21/1940
mp3 Library Visit - 07/18/1940
mp3 Living by Dyeing - 06/15/1939
mp3 Magazine Scam - 09/05/1940
mp3 Magic - 04/18/1940
mp3 Male Secretary - 01/11/1940
mp3 Missing Dollar - 02/22/1940
mp3 New Car - 09/12/1940
mp3 Playing Hooky - 09/19/1940
mp3 Port Hole Safe - 07/25/1940
mp3 Report Card - 05/01/1951
mp3 Ruined Suit - 10/31/1940
mp3 Shetland Pony - 01/25/1940
mp3 Snooks and Daddy in Court - 11/04/1943
mp3 Snooks and Tallulah- 11/12/1950
mp3 Snooks has Amnesi - 03/07/1940
mp3 Snooks stay at Home - 09/06/1946
mp3 Stolen Turkey - 11/28/1940
mp3 Tax Returns - 02/15/1940
mp3 The Opera - 11/27/1941
mp3 To Bee or Not To - 1940
mp3 Tom Thumb - 03/14/1940
mp3 Tonsils Operation - 06/22/1940
mp3 Violet Ray - 06/08/1939
mp3 Where is the Medicine - 09/26/1940
mp3 Worlds most Patient Father - 06/14/1944

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