Fanny Brice Fanny Brice Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American illustrated song model, comedienne, singer, theater, 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, Brice was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the 1964 musical" Funny Girl"; Streisand also starred in its 1968 film adaptation, for which she won an Oscar. Fania Borach was born in Manhattan, New York
Fanny Brice Sanborn Hour", a thirty-minute program which ran on Wednesday nights at 8 pm in 1933. From the 1930s until her death in 1951, Fanny made a radio presence as a bratty toddler named Snooks, a role she premiered in a "Follies" skit co-written by playwright Moss Hart. Baby Snooks premiered in "The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air" in February 1936 on CBS, with Alan Reed playing Lancelot Higgins, her beleaguered "Daddy". Brice moved to NBC in December 1937, performing the Snooks routines as part of the "Good News" show, then back to CBS on "Maxwell House Coffee Time", with the