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Up for sale a RARE! "Ziegfeld Follies" Fanny Brice Clipped Signature Mounted To A 3X5 Card.
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Fania Borach (October 29, 1891
– May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie
Brice, was an American comedienne, illustrated song model, singer, made many stage, radio,
and film appearances. She is known as the creator and star of the top-rated
radio comedy series The Baby Snooks Show.
Thirteen years after her death, Brice was portrayed on the Broadway stage
by Barbra Streisand in
the 1964 musical Funny Girl; Streisand
also starred in its 1968 film adaptation, for which she won an Oscar, and in the
1975 sequel, Funny Lady. Fania
Borach was born in Manhattan, New York City,
the third child of Rose (née Stern 1867-1941), a Hungarian-Jewish woman
who emigrated to America at age ten, and Alsatian immigrant Charles Borach. The Borachs were
saloon owners and had four children: Phillip, born in 1887; Carrie, born in
1889; Fania, born in 1891; and Louis, born in 1893. Under the name Lew Brice, her younger brother also became an entertainer and
was the first husband of actress Mae Clarke. In 1908, Brice dropped out of school to work Girls from Happy Land Starring Sliding Billy Watson". Two years
later she began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies in 1910 and 1911. She was hired
again in 1921 and performed in the Follies 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 the Victor Talking Machine
Company. The second song most associated with Brice is "Second Hand Rose",
which she also introduced in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1921. She
recorded nearly two dozen record sides for Victor and also cut several
for Columbia Records. She is a
posthumous recipient of a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for her 1921 recording of
"My Man". Brice's Broadway credits include Fioretta, Sweet and Low,
and Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt.
Her films include My Man (1928,
a lost film), Be Yourself! (1930) and Everybody Sing (1938)
with Judy Garland. Brice, Ann
Pennington, Ray Bolger and Harriet Hoctor were the only original Ziegfeld performers
to portray themselves in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
and Ziegfeld Follies (1946)