Celebrity Name : Fanny Brice

Celebrity Real Name : Fanny Borach

Date of Birth : October 29, 1891

Birth Location : United States

Biography of Fanny Borach :
Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential United States comedian, singer, and entertainer, remembered best for her many stage, radio and film appearances, her phonograph records, and as the creator and star of Baby Snooks. After her death she was depicted on stage and film by Barbra Streisand as Funny Girl.
Early life and career :
Fanny Brice (occasionally spelled Fannie) was the stage name of Fania Borach, born in New York City, the third child of relatively well-off saloon owners of Hungarian Jewish descent. In 1908, she dropped out of school to work in a burlesque review. She is best known for both her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies from 1910 into the 1930s, and for her later radio career which lasted a decade and a half.
In the 1921 Follies, she was featured singing “My Man” which became a big hit and is considered Fanny Brice’s signature song. She made a popular recording of it for RCA Victor Records. The second song most associated with her is the tune “Second Hand Rose”. She recorded nearly two dozen record sides for Victor, and also cut several for Columbia. She is a posthumous recipient of a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for her 1921 recording of “My Man.”
Trying to leap from stage to screen, Fanny made several films. She appeared in My Man (1928), Be Yourself! (1930), Everybody Sing (1938) (with Judy Garland), The Great Ziegfeld (she, Ray Bolger and Harriet Hoctor were the only original Ziegfeld performers to portray themselves in the 1936 film), and 1946’s Ziegfeld Follies. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at MP 6415 Hollywood Blvd.

Death :
Six months after her Big Show appearance, Fanny Brice died in Hollywood, California at the age of 59 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
She is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. The May 29, 1951 episode of The Baby Snooks Show was broadcast as a memorial to the star who created the brattish toddler, crowned by Hanley Stafford’s brief on-air eulogy: “We have lost a very real, a very warm, a very wonderful woman.”

Film tributes :
A loosely-based biopic of Brice was released in 1939 entitled Rose of Washington Square, starring Alice Faye and Tyrone Power. The title “Rose of Washington Square,” came from the title of a song which Brice popularized by performing it in the Follies. Brice soon found out via gossip columnist Louella Parsons that the film was based on her life and ordered 20th Century Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck to cut several production numbers.
Barbra Streisand later starred as Brice in the 1964 Broadway musical Funny Girl, which made Streisand an overnight sensation. In 1968, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for reprising her role in the film version of “Funny Girl.” In 1975, a sequel film, Funny Lady, was produced. Streisand also eventually recorded both “My Man” and “Second Hand Rose”.[wikipedia]