Jeanine Ann Roose

Roose was born on October 24, 1937, to Ivan R. and Agatha Roose.^[1][2][3]

Roose attended Audubon Junior High School.^[4] She later attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi.^[5]

Her first job was on The Jack Benny Program at the age of eight;^[6] 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 a 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;^[7] the couple's two daughters did not wish to appear on the program.^[8]

Other radio appearances included playing Chris in the Lux Radio Theatre production of I Remember Mama^[4] and an episode of Mr. President with Edward Arnold.^[9] Her sole film credit was as young Violet Bick in the 1946 film classic It's a Wonderful Life.^[10][11] She also starred in the unaired television pilot Arabella's Tall Tales.^[12][13]

Roose married Eugene Richard Auger on September 4, 1964.^[1] She gave birth to one son, Joe.^[14] She also had four stepdaughters from her second marriage: Nancy, Janet, Linda, and Naomi, as well as six grandchildren and one great-grandson.^[14]

She worked as a Jungian psychoanalyst in her later life.^[14]

She died from an abdominal infection in Valley Village, California, on December 31, 2021, at the age of 84.^[15]

• Roose Auger, Jeanine (1976). Behavioral Systems And Nursing. Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780130744845.