Jun 16 2008
Fanny Brice: Quainty Dainty Me
The 1968 film Funny Girl starred Barbara Streisand in the part of Fanny Brice, vaudeville comedienne, radio and film star. Not an imaginary character, Fanny was the longtime star of the Ziegfeld Follies and of the radio comedy Baby Snooks. She also made several films, including, in 1938, Everybody Sing in which she plays a Russian immigrant who pretends to have been a star in Moscow. She gets her chance to demonstrate her talents when working as a housekeeper for a theatrical family in need of a good show.
In this clip Fanny, auditioning for a part in the new show, does a musical number that must have been much like those that she did in the Follies. You will immediately recognize the young Judy Garland, who plays the part of the stage struck daughter of the theatrical parents. Born in New York in 1891, of Hungarian Jewish parents, Brice speaks and sings with a Yiddish accent, which she uses for humorous effect. Her dancing is studiedly awkward in this piece as she describes herself as a “tvinkle toes.”
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In this video I liked the first two minutes very much because we have an interesting game of shadows and “figurantes”- now,now, what’s the word for all the persons that does not have a role in the movie but that are in the movie as well? -behind the main scene!I did not liked the lady very much……
“what’s the word for all the persons that does not have a role in the movie but that are in the movie as well? -behind the main scene!”
We call them extras. The street scene people.
I have heard a couple rebroadcasts of the Baby Snooks radio show. Fanny Brice was really very talented and funny, I think.