Jeanine Ann Roose (1937-2021) American Child Actress

Jeanine Ann Roose (1937-2021) American Child Actress dies at 31 December 2021 ( 84 years )

Name	Jeanine Ann Roose
Age	84 Years
Birth	24 October 1937
Birthplace	Los Angeles, California, United States
Death	31 December 2021
Deathplace	Valley Village, Los Angeles, California, United States
Profession	Actress and Psychologist
Movies	It’s a Wonderful Life
Spouse	Eugene Richard Auger (Married 1964)
Burial
Nationality	American

Jeanine Ann Roose was an American Child Actress (1937-2021)

Her first job was on The Jack Benny Program at the age of eight; the role, as that of “Baby” or “Little” Alice Harris, is one she would keep for most of her entertainment career. She was also featured as the character on The Fitch Bandwagon and The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show from 1946 to 1954.

The character was based on in name on the real-life daughter of Phil Harris and Alice Faye; their two daughters did not wish to appear on the program. Other radio appearances included playing Chris in the Lux Radio Theatre production of I Remember Mama and an episode of Mr. President with Edward Arnold. Her sole film credit was as young Violet Bick in the 1946 film classic It’s a Wonderful Life.

She also starred in the unaired television pilot Arabella’s Tall Tales. Roose attended Audubon Junior High School. She later attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi. She worked as a Jungian psychoanalyst in her later life. Roose married Eugene Richard Auger on September 4, 1964. Jeanine died at 84 on December 31, 2021 in Valley Village, California from suffering an infection in her abdomen.

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Jeanine Ann Roose Life and career

Roose was born on October 24, 1937, to Ivan R. and Agatha Roose. Her first job was on The Jack Benny Program at the age of eight; the role, as that of “Baby” or “Little” Alice Harris, is one she would keep for most of her entertainment career. She was also featured as the character on The Fitch Bandwagon and The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show from 1946 to 1954. The character shared a name with the real-life daughter of Phil Harris and Alice Faye; the couple’s two daughters did not wish to appear on the program.

Other radio appearances included playing Chris in the Lux Radio Theatre production of I Remember Mama and an episode of Mr. President with Edward Arnold. Her sole film credit was as young Violet Bick in the 1946 film classic It’s a Wonderful Life. She also starred in the unaired television pilot Arabella’s Tall Tales.

Roose attended Audubon Junior High School. She later attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi. She worked as a Jungian psychoanalyst in her later life. Roose married Eugene Richard Auger on September 4, 1964.

She died from an abdominal infection in Valley Village, California, on December 31, 2021, at the age of 84.