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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.
Fanny Brice (occasionally spelled Fannie Brice) was the stage name of Fania Borach, born in New York City, the third child of relatively well-off saloon owners of Hungarian Jewish descent. In 1908, Brice dropped out of school to work in a burlesque revue, and two years later she began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies from 1910 to 1911. She was hired again in 1921 and performed in them 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 Victor Records.
Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer and vaudevillian. Renowned for her contralto voice, she attained international stardom through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the remake of A Star is Born and for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1961 film, Judgment at Nuremberg. At 39 years of age, she remains the youngest recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the motion picture industry.
After appearing in vaudeville with her two older sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and the 1939 film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz. After 15 years, she was released from the studio but gained renewed success through record-breaking concert appearances, including a return to acting beginning with critically acclaimed performances.
Actors: Mark Margolis (actor), Fred Gwynne (actor), Paul Herman (actor), Bob Hoskins (actor), Richard Gere (actor), Giancarlo Esposito (actor), Joe Dallesandro (actor), Dayton Allen (actor), Gregory Hines (actor), Laurence Fishburne (actor), Nicolas Cage (actor), Bill Cobbs (actor), Allen Garfield (actor), James Remar (actor), Ed O'Ross (actor),
Plot: The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, african-american, band, based-on-novel, biracial, black-american, box-office-flop, controversy, cotton-club-manhattan-new-york-cityActors: Michael York (actor), Daniel J. Travanti (actor), Eddie Albert (actor), Rich Little (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Edward Asner (actor), Dick Cavett (actor), Harry Belafonte (actor), Milton Berle (actor), Gregory Hines (actor), George Burns (actor), Richard Kiley (actor), Richard Kiley (actor), Jack Klugman (actor), Debbie Allen (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Music, Musical,Actors: Buzz Kulik (director), Grady Hunt (costume designer), Samantha Eggar (actress), Leon Charles (actor), Valerie Perrine (actress), Buzz Kulik (producer), Lilyan Chauvin (actress), Nehemiah Persoff (actor), Dick DeBenedictis (composer), David Opatoshu (actor), Barbara Parkins (actress), Richard B. Shull (actor), M.J. Frankovich (producer), Jessica Rains (actress), Cliff Norton (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Muhammad Ali (actor), James Caan (actor), James Caan (actor), Dick Cavett (actor), Dick Cavett (actor), Dick Cavett (actor), Frank Gifford (actor), Roddy McDowall (actor), Robert Redford (actor), Michael Sarrazin (actor), David Selby (actor), Omar Sharif (actor), Barbra Streisand (actress), Barbra Streisand (actress), Marty Farrell (writer),
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Plot: 1930s in New York. The famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the depression she has trouble finding work as an artist but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns his own nightclub.
Keywords: 1930s, female-protagonist, husband-wife-relationship, love, new-york-city, sequelActors: Jeffrey Sayre (actor), Gerald Mohr (actor), John Harmon (actor), Walter Pidgeon (actor), Hal K. Dawson (actor), Michael Mark (actor), George DeNormand (actor), Frank Faylen (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), John Dennis (actor), Paul Bradley (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Frank Sully (actor), Omar Sharif (actor),
Plot: The life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.
Keywords: 1910s, 1920s, actress, alley, anger, apartment, applause, arrest, audition, babyActors: Barbra Streisand (actress), Omar Sharif (actor), Omar Sharif (actor), Herbert Ross (actor), William Wyler (actor), Barbra Streisand (actress), Ray Stark (actor),
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Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama,