Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice was born Fania Borach in New York City to immigrants from Hungary and Alsace respectively. Getting her break into entertainment through the Eastern Burlesque Circuit (1907–1910), Fania Anglicized her name to Fanny Brice. She was intermittently cast in Ziegfield’s Follies for the next thirteen years with her Yiddish-accented humor, performing Irving Berlin and Edgar Leslie’s “Sadie Salome, Go Home” for the 1910 Follies. Brice became the first female lead of a talkie, My Man (1928), based on her popular performances of this song in the 1921 Follies, for which she was awarded a posthumous Grammy Award.