Star Facts

  • Category Motion Pictures

    Address 6415 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

  • Category Radio

    Address 1500 Vine Street

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Fanny Brice
Born:
1891-10-29,
New York City,
New York,
USA
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
1951-05-29
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Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice was a popular and influential American illustrated song “model,” comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation.

Fanny Brice was the stage name of Fania Borach, born in New York City, the third child of relatively well-off saloon owners of Hungarian Jewish descent.

In 1908, Brice dropped out of school to work in a burlesque revue, and two years later she began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies from 1910 into the 1930s. In the 1921 Follies, she was featured singing “My Man” which became both a big hit and her signature song. She made a popular recording of it for Victor Records.

The second song most associated with Brice is “Second Hand Rose,” which she introduced in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1921.

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