FANNY BRICE , AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1891,OCTOBER 29
FANNY BRICE , AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1891,OCTOBER 29 Fanny Brice was a popular American singer and comedian who was long associated with the Ziegfeld Follies. She was portrayed by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl. “Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.” —Fanny Brice Synopsis Born on October 29, 1891, in New York City, Fanny Brice sang in a talent contest when she was 13 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 that year. Brice was a Follies perennial after 1910, and her comic routines and parodies were highly popular. She also appeared in a few motion pictures. Shortly after having a stroke, Brice died in 1951 at the age of 59. Early Life Actress, comedian a...