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Description
12"(30 cm.) Composition socket head with sculpted brown hair in short curls and with
modeled loop for insertion of real hair ribbon,painted features,painted downcast blue
eyes,black eyeliner and upper lashes,closed mouth modeled in wide-open expression with
painted teeth,wooden torso with wire flexible limbs and composition hands,wearing her
original red cotton print dress and pants. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Fanny Brice's
Baby Snooks,Flexy an Ideal Doll,the Doll of a Thousand Poses (paper label on wrist.
Comments: Ideal,circa 1940,portrayed is Fanny Brice in her popular 1940s radio role of Baby
Snooks; previously she had appeared in every Ziegfield Follies from 1911 to 1923 and various
films in the 1930s. Value Points: pristine original condition of the American pop culture
icon,included is July 1938 issue of "Stage,the Magazine for After Dark"with "Baby Snooks"and
her teddy bear on the cover.