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Fanny Brice was arguably the greatest American stage comedienne and the first truly great torch singer. Best known today through the Broadway and Hollywood versions of Funny Girl, the vehicle that catapulted Barbara Streisand to super-stardom, her most famous role was as `Baby Snooks'' the `incorrigible tot of network radio from 1936 to 1951''.This meticulously researched biography chronicles her entire stage career from childhood amateur shows to national fame. Full of colourful anecdote, it covers her personal life, including three broken marriages - one two a notorious gangster - and also includes four appendices detailing every aspect of her stage, film, radio, and recording careers.

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'Fascinating account of the Funny Girl's career.' Peter Hepple, Stage & Television Today

Fanny Brice

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    A Paperback by Herbert G. Goldman

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 24 February 1994
      ISBN-13 9780195085525
      978-0195085525
      ISBN-10 0195085523
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      Biography: arts and entertainment Popular music

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Fanny Brice was arguably the greatest American stage comedienne and the first truly great torch singer. Best known today through the Broadway and Hollywood versions of Funny Girl, the vehicle that catapulted Barbara Streisand to super-stardom, her most famous role was as `Baby Snooks'' the `incorrigible tot of network radio from 1936 to 1951''.This meticulously researched biography chronicles her entire stage career from childhood amateur shows to national fame. Full of colourful anecdote, it covers her personal life, including three broken marriages - one two a notorious gangster - and also includes four appendices detailing every aspect of her stage, film, radio, and recording careers.

      Trade Review

      'Fascinating account of the Funny Girl's career.' Peter Hepple, Stage & Television Today

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