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Biography of Fanny BriceName: Fanny BriceBirth Date: October 29, 1891 Death Date: May 19, 1951 Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: comedienne, actress, singer Fanny Brice Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was a vaudeville, Broadway, film, and radio singer and comedienne.Fanny Brice was born on October 29, 1891, on New York's Lower East Side. She was the daughter of Charles Borach, a saloonkeeper, and Rose Stern, a real estate agent. 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's acute sense of humor made its way into her act early on. 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 …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Jewish city girls.Aside from her theater career, Brice was a dress designer, painter, and interior decorator. She had two children, William and Frances. She died May 19, 1951, of cerebral hemorrhage, at the age of 59. Associated Works Ziegfeld Follies (Show) Further Reading A concise biography and analysis of Fanny Brice's work is included in The Great Clowns of Broadway (1984) by Stanley Green. Reviews, an interview, and a short biography can be found in Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage, Vol. 1 (1975) by William C. Young. Daniel Blum's Great Stars of the American Stage (1952) includes a short biography and photographs. For background information on the Ziegfeld Follies and Brice's role in their creation, see Randolph Carter's The World of Flo Ziegfeld (1974).Goldman, Herbert G., Fanny Brice: the original funny girl, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Grossman, Barbara Wallace, Funny woman: the life and times of Fanny Brice, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. |