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    Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedian, illustrated song model, singer, and...
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  • semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of comedian and Broadway star Fanny Brice, featuring her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky...
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    Willard Adair". He was best known as the second husband of entertainer Fanny Brice. Arnstein was born Julius Arndstein in Berlin, German Empire. His father...
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  • career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein. Produced by Brice's son-in-law Ray Stark (and...
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    entertainers, including W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, Bob Hope, Will Rogers, Ruth...
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    Best Life (2015). In 2022, Michele returned to Broadway starring as Fanny Brice in the musical revival of Funny Girl, where she received widespread critical...
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    highly fictionalized account of the later life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her marriage to songwriter and impresario Billy Rose. The primary...
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  • (born March 24, 1989) is an American actress and singer. Benko portrayed Fanny Brice in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl (2022) and originated the role...
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    Minnie Fay in Hello, Dolly! (2017–18) and portraying the lead role of Fanny Brice in the first revival of Funny Girl (2022), a performance for which she...
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    MGM was the musical Everybody Sing (1938) opposite Judy Garland and Fanny Brice, in which he introduced the pop standard "The One I Love". In 1940, Jones...
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    American radio program starring comedian and Ziegfeld Follies alumna Fanny Brice as a mischievous young girl who was 40 years younger than the actress...
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    her singing voice to famous names such as Judy Garland, Lena Horne and Fanny Brice. Her conversational ability to charm an audience with spontaneous humor...
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  • William Brice (April 23, 1921 – March 3, 2008) was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract paintings. Born to actress Fanny Brice and her...
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    may be best known today as the husband of famed comedian and singer Fanny Brice (1891–1951). Rose was born to a Jewish family in New York City. He attended...
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    Second Hand Rose (song) (category Fanny Brice songs)
    1921 popular song written by Grant Clarke and James F. Hanley for Fanny Brice. Fanny Brice introduced the song in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 which...
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    Follies singer Fanny Brice. The song was a hit, and the record eventually earned a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for Brice in 1999. Brice also sang the song...
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  • library's special collections department to research Fanny Brice, Lee discovers two letters typewritten by Brice. She removes one of them from the building and...
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    Night in Apple Valley, in 1965. When Hines replaced Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice in the hit musical Funny Girl in 1965, Ford was given the part of Eddie...
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    production of Hairspray. In 2017, she won the IRNE Award for Best Actress as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. In 2022, Bean received a nomination for the Tony Award...
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  • political hostess Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918–2004), Dutch track and field athlete, Olympic and world champion and world record holder Fanny Brice (1891–1951)...
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    with Fanny Brice in one version (of several different series) of the radio program Maxwell House Coffee Time, aka The Frank Morgan-Fanny Brice Show....
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    a Waltz? (Equity Library Theatre), 10 productions of Funny Girl, as Fanny Brice (her favorite production, at Chateau DeVille Dinner Theatre, was directed...
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  • leading talents, including Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice (the only member of the ensemble who was a star of the original Follies)...
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    "It's Official: Lea Michele to Star as Fanny Brice in Broadway's Funny Girl; Tovah Feldshuh Will Co-Star as Mrs. Brice". Geoff Berkshire (March 1, 2015)....
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    Fanny Brice (1891–1951), actress, comedian, singer (formerly buried in Home of Peace Cemetery) William Brice (1921–2008), artist, son of Fanny Brice Les...
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  • lyrics by Bob Merrill. Barbra Streisand performed it in the role of Fanny Brice, first in the Broadway cast, then again in the 1968 film adaptation....
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    regularly on the Crime Doctor series," and "was the original Daddy to Fanny Brice on Baby Snooks". Billed as Teddy Bergman, he had the title role on Joe...
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    Al Jolson, Mae West, Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, Langston Hughes, Judy Garland, Moss Hart, and Jimmy Walker. In 1920...
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    son-in-law of Fanny Brice. Stark immediately hired Oppenheimer to write for the popular radio program, The Baby Snooks Show, which starred Brice as a wise-beyond-her-years...
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    directed by Edwin L. Marin, and starring Allan Jones, Judy Garland and Fanny Brice, and featuring Reginald Owen and Billie Burke. The screenplay and story...
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