Fanny Brice biography

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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.