Honey Bruce Friedman Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Honey Bruce Friedman was born on August 15, 1927 in Manila, Arkansas, USA as Harriet Jolliff. She is known for her work on Dance Hall Racket (1953), Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998) and Princess of the Nile (1954). She was married to Jeffrey Friedman and Lenny Bruce. She died on September 12, 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
September 12, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Place Of Birth
Manila, Arkansas, USA
Height
5' 7" (1.7 m)
Profession
Actress, Miscellaneous Crew
Spouse
Jeffrey Friedman (m. 1984–2005), Lenny Bruce (m. 1951–1957)
Children
Kitty Bruce
Movies
Dance Hall Racket
Star Sign
Leo
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Fact
1
As a teenager, was incarcerated at Florida's Raiford Prison. At the time, she was the youngest white woman ever sentenced to do time there.
2
Author of the autobiography, "Honey, The Lives and loves of Lenny's Shady Lady".
3
Valerie Perrine played her in the movie "Lenny".
4
In 2003, she was one of the many people who signed a petition requesting New York Gov. George Pataki to give Lenny Bruce a posthumous pardon for obscenity.
5
He became known as a First Amendment martyr for his legal problems over onstage language, and later referred to his wife in his act as the "beautiful mama with the long red hair."
6
Onetime nightclub singer who was working as a stripper under the name Honey Harlowe when she met Lenny Bruce, then a fledgling comic, in a Baltimore hotel coffee shop. They were married in 1951.
7
Portrayed by Valerie Perrine in the 1974 movie "Lenny," starring Dustin Hoffman in the title role.
8
At 17, after falling into disreputable company, she was serving a year in a state prison.
9
Friedman was working as a stripper under the name Honey Harlowe (a.k.a. Hot Honey Harlowe) when she met Lenny Bruce, then a fledgling comic, in a Baltimore hotel coffee shop.
10
Survived by a daughter
11
Her former husband Lenny Bruce tried to reform her and turn her into a respectable singer under the name of "The Singing Southern Belle, Honey Michelle".