Honey Harlow

Honey Harlow Bruce Friedman (15 August, 1927 - 12 September, 2005) was a stripper and showgirl best remembered as the wife of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce.cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Honey Bruce Friedman, Wife of Lenny Bruce |url= |quote=Honey Bruce Friedman, 78, the former wife of comedian Lenny Bruce who successfully lobbied to clear her husband's 40-year-old obscenity conviction, died Sept. 12 at a hospital near her home in Honolulu. No cause of death was reported. ... |work=Washington Post |date=19 September, 2005 |accessdate=2008-08-03 ]

Biography

She was born as Harriett Jolliff in Manila, Arkansas on August 15, 1927. She was raised in Detroit, Michigan. While still in her teens, she ran away from home to dance with a carnival and was also convicted, along with several friends, of attempting to rob a candy machine, and spent more than a year in jail. After her release from jail she worked as a stripper under the name "Hot Honey Harlowe".

On June 15 1951 she married comedian Lenny Bruce. They divorced on January 21 1957 after having a daughter, Kitty. The two fought a custody battle over their daughter. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Ex-Dancer and Mate Agree on Custody |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/458300332.html?dids=458300332:458300332&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Jan+04%2C+1957&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Ex-Dancer+and+Mate+Agree+on+Custody&pqatl=google |quote=Honey Harlow, 29, former striptease, yesterday went before Superior Judge Elmer D. Doyle to fight her, estranged husband for custody of their daughter Brandie, 1 year old, spirited from their home in Hawaii by him. |work=Los Angeles Times |date=January 4, 1947 |accessdate=2008-08-03 ]

Harlow successfully lobbied New York Governor George Pataki to posthumously pardon Bruce for the obscenity conviction resulting from his performance and arrest at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village in 1964.cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Died. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1109352,00.html |quote=Honey Bruce Friedman, 78, ex-stripper who in 1951 married the soon-to-be-famous comedian Lenny Bruce; in Honolulu. Though the drug-addled pair split in 1957 (they had a daughter, Kitty), the sometime actress who called herself "Lenny's Shady Lady" helped successfully lobby New York Governor George Pataki to pardon Bruce |work=Time (magazine) |date=September 25, 2005 |accessdate=2008-08-03 ]

She married one Jeffrey Friedman in 1984. [* [http://www.strip-magazine.com/mmagazine/new_welcome.php?subaction=showfull&id=1128038840&ucat=11 Honey Harlow] at Strip Magazine]

She died on 12 September, 2005 in Honolulu. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Honey Bruce Friedman, ex-wife of Lenny Bruce, 78 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001138797 |quote=Honey Bruce Friedman, the former wife of comedian Lenny Bruce who successfully lobbied to clear her husband's 40-year-old obscenity conviction, has died. She was 78. Friedman died Monday after a long illness at a hospital near her home in Honolulu, family friend Jeff Abraham said from his Santa Monica office on Friday. |work=Associated Press |date=September 19, 2005 |accessdate=2008-08-03 ] cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Honey Bruce Friedman Dies at 78; Entertainer and 'Lenny's Shady Lady' |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/arts/20friedman.html |quote=Honey Bruce Friedman, a former nightclub entertainer who in 2003 helped win a posthumous pardon for her ex-husband, the comedian Lenny Bruce, on a 39-year-old obscenity conviction, died on Sept. 12 at a hospital in Honolulu. She was 78 and a Honolulu resident. The cause was complications of colitis, her daughter, Kitty Bruce, said. |work=New York Times |date=September 20, 2005 |accessdate=2008-08-03 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.strip-magazine.com/mmagazine/new_welcome.php?subaction=showfull&id=1128038840&ucat=11 Honey Harlow] at Strip Magazine
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