Up for auction a RARE! "Ziegfeld Follies" Fanny Brice Clipped Signature Mounted To A 3X5 Card. 

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Fania Borach (October 29, 1891

– May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie

Brice, was an American comedienne, illustrated song model, singer, and theater and film actress

who made many stage, radio,

and film appearances. She is known as the creator and star of the top-rated

radio comedy series The Baby Snooks Show.

Thirteen years after her death, Brice was portrayed on the Broadway stage

by Barbra Streisand in

the 1964 musical Funny Girl; Streisand

also starred in its 1968 film adaptation, for which she won an Oscar, and in the

1975 sequel, Funny Lady. Fania

Borach was born in Manhattan, New York City,

the third child of Rose (née Stern 1867-1941), a Hungarian-Jewish woman

who emigrated to America at age ten, and Alsatian immigrant Charles Borach. The Borachs were

saloon owners and had four children: Phillip, born in 1887; Carrie, born in

1889; Fania, born in 1891; and Louis, born in 1893. Under the name Lew Brice, her younger brother also became an entertainer and

was the first husband of actress Mae Clarke. In 1908, Brice dropped out of school to work in

a burlesque revue,

"The Girls from Happy Land Starring Sliding Billy Watson". Two years

later she began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies in 1910 and 1911. She was hired

again in 1921 and performed in the Follies into the 1930s. In

the 1921 Follies, she was featured singing "My Man", which became both a big hit and her signature

song. She made a popular recording of it for the Victor Talking Machine

Company. The second song most associated with Brice is "Second Hand Rose",

which she also introduced in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1921. She

recorded nearly two dozen record sides for Victor and also cut several

for Columbia Records. She is a

posthumous recipient of a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for her 1921 recording of

"My Man". Brice's Broadway credits include Fioretta, Sweet and Low,

and Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt.

Her films include My Man (1928,

a lost film), Be Yourself! (1930) and Everybody Sing (1938)

with Judy Garland. Brice, Ann

Pennington, Ray Bolger and Harriet Hoctor were the only original Ziegfeld performers

to portray themselves in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

and Ziegfeld Follies (1946)