Lew Brice Brice died June 16, 1966 in Hollywood, California, aged 72. Lew Brice Lew Brice (October 26, 1893 – June 16, 1966) was an American actor, dancer and comedian. He was born Louis Borach on October 26, 1893 in Manhattan, New York City, the brother of Fannie Brice. He was the youngest of four children born to Rose Stern, a Hungarian Jewish woman who emigrated to America at age ten; and Alsatian immigrant Charles Borach. Charles and Rose were saloon owners and had four children, Philip (born 1887), Carrie (born 1889), Fania, and Louis. Lew Brice married actress Mae Clarke on
Mississippi Slim (country singer) Mississippi Slim (country singer) Carvel Lee Ausborn (September 24, 1923 - December 1973), better known by his stage name, Mississippi Slim, was a hillbilly singer who had a radio show on Tupelo's WELO during the later 1940s. Ausborn was born in Smithville, Mississippi. According to Peter Guralnick, he had taken up guitar at the age of 13 to pursue a career in music. He was inspired by Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb and Ausborn's cousin Rod Brasfield, a then prominent country comedian who toured with Hank Williams. Slim travelled all over the country with Goober and His Kentuckians and