Fannie brice pictures on stage
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Fannie brice pictures on stage
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Fanny Brice at the Billy Rose Theatre, 1938. Photo from the New York Public Library Digital Collection
Before Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, before Madeline Kahn and Gilda Radner, before Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett – there was Fanny Brice, the first Queen of Comedy.
The original funny girl. While the Tenement Museum focuses on the ordinary lives of ordinary immigrants, this wouldn’t be New York City without every so often a larger-than-life figure coming along to change everything.
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It’s safe to say Fanny Brice set a precedent for the versatility and gumption for every female comedian since, whose life became the source of the hit Broadway musical and 1968 movie, Funny Girl.
Fanny Brice in the stage production Ziegfeld Follies of 1924.
Photo from the New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Born on Forsyth Street on the Lower East Side in 1891, Brice – born Fania Borach – was the third child of Hungarian Jewish immigrants. Her mother worked in a