Fannie Flagg
Patricia Neal , known professionally as Fannie Flagg, is an American actress, comedian and author. She is best known as a semiregular panelist on the 197382 versions of the game show Match Game and for the 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes. Flagg was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation.
Flagg, born in Birmingham, Alabama, is the daughter of Marion Leona and William Hurbert Neal, Jr., a smallbusiness owner and projectionist. She grew up in the suburb of Irondale.
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