FANNY BRICE - DOCUMENT SIGNED 04/20/1948 - HFSID 296488
Price: $425.00
FANNY BRICE
She signs to acknowledge a change in the broadcast schedule of her
Baby Snooks radio show.
Document signed: "Fanny Brice", 1 page, 8½x11 Beverly
Hills, California, 1948 April 20. Brice signs to acknowledge receipt of a
letter from the Young and Rubicam advertising agency, informing her that her
contract with the General Foods Corporation through the Benton & Bowles
agency, relating to the radio program The Baby Snooks Show, will be
modified to change the hour of the broadcast. The program will now be heard
Fridays at 5:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Savings Time, with a re-broadcast at 9:00
PM PDST. Fanny Brice (1891-1951) starred in the Ziegfeld
Follies in the 1920s and 1930s and became known for her beautiful voice
and limber grace, which she always used in the service of humor. In the
Broadway comedy Crazy Quilt (1931), she introduced the character of "Baby
Snooks," a precocious, mischievous brat she had first played in vaudeville
in 1912. She performed as "Baby Snooks" in Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
The character then became part of the Maxwell House Coffee Time radio
show, and, in 1938, Brice launched her own weekly broadcast, The Baby
Snooks Show. Brice's enormously successful run on radio lasted until her
death in 1951. Brice was the model for Barbra Streisand's character in
the successful play and movie Funny Girl. Intended as entertainment,
Funny Girl is inaccurate with respect to many details of Brice's life.
Multiple mailing folds. Bottom left corner creased. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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