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Author: JonnyB

Jun 9th 2012 at 8:27:14 AM

From TheOtherWiki (some of these have already been mentioned):

* Rachel Green in the NBC sitcom Friends was originally scripted as a stereotype of a JAP (though never stated to be Jewish), however this stereotype declined as the series progressed. Maggie Wheeler as Janice in the same program, though she, too, is not explicitly identified as Jewish.
* Fran Drescher has been cited as an example of making an entire career of portraying the Jewish princess stereotype, including her character in The Nanny.
* Joan Rivers often exploited the Jewish Princess stereotype in her comedy.
* Ali [=MacGraw=] portrayed Roth's Jewish princess protagonist, Brenda, in the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus.
* Gilda Radner parodied the JAP stereotype with her recurring Saturday Night Live character, Rhonda Weiss. Another Radner take on the stereotype was a fake ad for "Jewess Jeans" which showed Radner and other women wearing designer jeans with light-up Stars of David and an offstage woman singing "she is an American princess!"
* The Mel Brooks parody Spaceballs features Daphne Zuniga as Princess Vespa, a "Druish princess", who displays the attributes of the JAP stereotype.
* Minnie Driver portrays a Canadian Jewish princess in Barney's Version, a film adaptation of the novel by Mordecai Richler, and stated that she based her character on a Montreal real estate agent who was a friend of the producer and American Jewish princesses that Driver knows.
* Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn) in Private Benjamin and Kate Gunzinger (Jill Clayburgh) in It's My Turn, are Jewish princess characters who first display, and then break the stereotype. This change in the portrayal has been attributed to a change in society as a result of the influence of modern feminism.

Also, Frank Zappa's song "Jewish Princess"