About Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg is an American actress, comedian, and author. She is most notable as a frequent panelist on the 1973–1982 versions of the game show Match Game and for her 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which she adapted into the script for the 1991 motion picture Fried Green Tomatoes. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation. Flagg lives in California and Alabama. Encouraged by her father, Flagg became interested in writing and performing at an early age, writing her first play when she was 10. In 1978, Flagg won first place in fiction for a short story that she had written at the Santa Barbara Writer's Conference. As a teen, she entered the Miss Alabama pageant, where she won a scholarship to a local acting school for one year. Having only an hour to choose a stage name, she selected the first name "Fannie" at the suggestion of her grandfather, who recalled it being used by many comediennes in the vaudeville circuit, and "Flagg" at the suggestion of a friend.
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