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- NAME: Fanny Brice
- OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Comedian, Singer, Radio Personality
- BIRTH DATE: October 29, 1891
- DEATH DATE: May 29, 1951
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
- PLACE OF DEATH: Los Angeles, California
- Originally: Fannie Borach
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Fanny Brice was a popular American singing comedienne who was long associated with the Ziegfeld Follies. She was portrayed by Barbara Streisand in Funny Girl.
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Florenz Ziegfeld, aka "The Great Ziegfeld," took a chance on an odd-looking performer named Fanny Brice, who would later be immortalized in the film, "Funny Girl."
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Fanny Brice was born October 29, 1891, in New York City. At 13 she sang in a talent contest at Keeney's Theatre and won first prize. In 1910 Florenz Ziegfeld heard Brice singing in a burlesque house and made her a headliner in his Follies of that year. She was a Follies perennial after 1910, and her comic routines and parodies were highly popular. She also appeared in a few motion pictures.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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