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Sybil Bruncheon has been performing on stage, radio, TV, film, and in various Vaudeville, burlesque, church basement, county fair, and sideshow....uh..."venues" for most of her 29 years. She is available for bookings for just about anything and can be reached at bruncheon@hotmail.com and on her website sybilbruncheon.com. She is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. Her erdo number is 16.

August 18, 2021

Sybil Bruncheon's "Inadvertent Inventions and Their Inventors... Henny Hiebel"...

August 18, 2021/ Sybil Bruncheon

Little known fact… In 1921, Austrian actress Henny Hiebel, after years of failed attempts to break into the big time, and a string of unsuccessful plays, failed silent films, trained dog acts, vaudeville magic shows, hootchy-kootch parlors, and burlesque skits finally gave up and joined the carnival circuit as a gypsy fortune teller with “her magic metaphysical turban”... It was on a hot August night during a break in her shift that she accidentally set fire to her turban while making some popcorn in her tent… her descendants to this day continue to make millions of dollars off her Jiffy-Pop patent… and keep her ashes in an aluminum foil bubble-urn…

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