- Jean Carroll
Jean Carroll (1911-), née Celine Zeigman, was a Jewish-American comedian during the 1950s and 1960s.
Jean was born January 6, 1911 in Paris FranceFact|date=August 2008. (Find-A-Grave claims 1909).
She began her career as part of a song-and-dance team with her husband, vaudevillian
Buddy Howe , who later became her managerFact|date=August 2008. She appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show " more than 20 times and had her own short-lived sit-com, "The Jean Carroll Show (or Take It From Me)", which aired for one season in (1953-1954) [cite web|title=IMDB entry for Jean Carroll|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140853/#actress|accessdate=2008-08-21] . Carroll also released an "adult party album" titled “Girl in a Hot Steam Bath.”In 2007, Carroll will be featured in the
Off-Broadway production "The J.A.P. Show: Jewish American Princesses of Comedy," which includes live standup routines by four female Jewish comics juxtaposed with the stories of legendary performers from the 1950s and 1960s,Belle Barth ,Pearl Williams andBetty Walker ,Totie Fields , and Carroll herself.ee also
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