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Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential American illustrated song model, comedian, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation. She performed in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910, 1911, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1934, and 1936. The Ziegfeld Follies-Frolic Ball (1918) The Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic of 1919 The Ziegfeld Nine O’Clock Revue (Ziegfeld Girls of 1920, March 8) The Ziegfeld Nine O’Clock Frolic of 1920
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