1. Fania Borach, known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedian, illustrated song model, singer, and actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances.
19 Facts About Fanny Brice
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Fanny Brice is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series The Baby Snooks Show.
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In 1908, Fanny Brice dropped out of school to work in a burlesque revue, "The Girls from Happy Land Starring Sliding Billy Watson".
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Fanny Brice was hired again in 1921 and performed in the Follies into the 1930s.
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Fanny Brice made a popular recording of it for the Victor Talking Machine Company.
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The second song most associated with Fanny Brice is "Second Hand Rose", which she introduced in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1921.
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Fanny Brice recorded nearly two dozen record sides for Victor, and cut several for Columbia Records.
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Fanny Brice is a posthumous recipient of a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for her 1921 recording of "My Man".
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Fanny Brice's first regular radio show was probably The Chase and Sanborn Hour, a 30-minute program which ran on Wednesday nights at 8 pm in 1933.
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Fanny Brice returned on Tallulah Bankhead's big-budget, large-scale radio variety show The Big Show in November 1950, sharing the bill with Groucho Marx and Jane Powell.
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Fanny Brice resided in a house built in 1938 on North Faring Road in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, designed by the architect John Elgin Woolf.
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Fanny Brice had a short-lived marriage in her late teens to a barber, Frank White, whom she met in 1910 in Springfield, Massachusetts, when she was touring in College Girl.
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Fanny Brice visited Arnstein in prison every week during the 14 months he served in Sing Sing, pawned her jewelry to pay for appeals and eventually secured him a pardon.
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Fanny Brice insisted on his innocence and funded his legal defense at great expense and the case went to the Supreme Court while Arnstein remained free on bail.
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Fanny Brice divorced him in Chicago on September 14,1927 on grounds of infidelity and loss of affection.
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Fanny Brice wed lyricist and stage producer Billy Rose in 1929 and appeared in his revue Crazy Quilt, among others.
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Fanny Brice was interred at Home of Peace Memorial Park but in 1999 her remains were relocated to Westwood Village Memorial Park.
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Mexican comedian Maria Elena Saldana was influenced by Fanny Brice and created a character similar to Fanny Brice's Baby Snooks, La Guereja.
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In 2006, Fanny Brice was featured in the film Making Trouble-Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women, a tribute to Jewish women comedians produced by the Jewish Women's Archive.