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Fanny Brice is considered one of the first 'torch' singers, with her signature rendition of the standard "My Man" which she premiered in The Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 and went on to eventually receive s posthumous Hall Of Fame Award. Beginning with a career in burlesque and vaudeville at the age of 16, Fanny ended her 3 year career on the radio performing for nearly 20 years as Baby Snooks on the popular 'The Baby Snooks Show' which aired right up until her death in 1951. Three films have been made about her life: 1939's 'Rose Of Washington Square' with Alice Faye and Tyrone Power, 'Funny Girl' with Barbra Streisand and Omar Shariff and 'Funny Lady' again with Barbra Streisand with James Caan. Although a singing sensations for a dozen years in The Ziegfeld Follies and various Billy Rose productions, only a handful of recordings exist of Fanny, all of them are gathered here.
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Fania Borach was born on October 29, 1891, in New York City, the third child of Rose Borach (Stern) and Charles Borach. The Boraches were saloon owners and had four children.
As a child she sang and danced in her father's saloon, and at the age of 13, after winning an amateur contest, she sang and played piano in a movie theater. Brice ended her formal education sometime during or after the eighth grade, she yearned for a career in show business.
She began to work parody into her songs and toured in burlesque. In 1910 she was asked by Max Spiegel to be in The College Girls at a major New York theater and also to do a benefit he was producing. Since this was an important job for her she asked Irving Berlin to write her some songs, one of which—"Sadie Salome, Go Home"— became a Brice trademark. The song told the story of a Jewish dancer who shocked her family by going on the stage. It required a Jewish accent for its comic effect. The audiences loved this character, and from then on Brice's most successful characters would be drawn from her own Jewish background.
Aside from discovering her forte, Brice was rewarded for this performance with a job on Broadway in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1910. This was the beginning of an association between the famous impresario and the talented comedienne that would last for 14 years. In 1911 she left New York and toured the vaudeville circuit, during which time she created two more characters which became her hallmarks: the "vamp" and the pretentious "dancer. "
Following the tour she appeared as the major attraction at two important theaters: the Victoria in Times Square and the Victoria Palace in London. She also played a Yiddish soubrette, a part specifically written for her, in Shubert's The Whirl of Society, which also starred Al Jolson. She played the same part in another Shubert hit, Honeymoon Express, and she played the female lead in Jerome Kern's Nobody Home.
In 1916 Brice returned to the Ziegfeld Follies with her popular skit "The Blushing Bride. " She remained with Ziegfeld until 1924, in all appearing in seven editions of the Follies and four revues.
In 1921 Brice introduced "My Man" to American audiences. She stood on an empty stage against a lamppost and sang the painful song about a woman whose total devotion to her "man" had brought nothing but unhappiness.
In 1924 Brice, displeased with the material Ziegfeld was giving her, returned to vaudeville for a time. She played the lead role in the film "My Man" and then appeared in Billy Rose's (her third husband) Sweet and Low (1930) in which she introduced "Babykins, " a three year old in a high chair. This character was the starting point for another Brice trademark, "Baby Snooks. "
In the Shubert's 1936 Follies she did a spoof of "My Man" in which she said that she had been singing about "that bum" for more than 15 years. This satire on the sentiment in the song was much more her style than the straight emotionality of the earlier delivery. In the same show she did a parody of Shirley Temple in an act with Bob Hope in which she played a child star who couldn't remember her lines.
Due to ill health Brice left Broadway for Los Angeles, where she made a few film appearance, including MGM's Ziegfeld Follies (1946) (she was the only Ziegfeld star who appeared in this film). She also immortalized "Baby Snooks" during her ten year radio series.
In 1938 Rose of Washington Square, a film suggesting the life of Brice, was made and Brice sued the producer. Yet it was through another film and Broadway show, Funny Girl, in which Brice was played by Barbra Streisand, that Brice's unique contributions to the theater became known to later generations. A fantasized version of her life focussing on her Ziegfeld days, the play brings back to life her favorite characters and songs. Through this play her life has become inextricably linked with that of her characters, Sadie and "Second Hand Rose"—the poor but spunky Jewish city girls.
Aside from her theater career, Brice was a dress designer, painter, and interior decorator.
Fanny Brice died on May 19, 1951, of cerebral hemorrhage, at the age of 59.
("The Baby Snooks Show" starred comedienne and Ziegfeld Fo...)
("The Baby Snooks Show" starred comedienne and Ziegfeld Fo...)
("The Baby Snooks Show" starred comedienne and Ziegfeld Fo...)
(Fanny Brice is considered one of the first 'torch' singer...)
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Quotations:
"Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown. "
"Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show. "
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. "
Fanny Brice had a short-lived marriage in her teens to Frank White, whom she met in 1910 in Springfield, Massachusetts, when she was touring in College Girl. The marriage lasted three years and she brought suit for divorce in 1913. Her second husband was professional gambler Julius W. "Nicky" Arnstein. In 1918 they were married after living together for six years, they had two children. On May 16, 1924, Arnstein having been convicted of conspiracy to carry stolen securities into the District of Columbia, he entered Leavenworth prison, where he remained for three years. Brice divorced him on September 17, 1927, soon after his release.
Brice married songwriter and stage producer Billy Rose in 1929 and appeared in his revue Crazy Quilt, among others. Their marriage failed, with Brice suing Rose for divorce in 1938.