Ok I recently saw Funny Girl at playhouse square and I really enjoyed it and I'm just now learning more about Fanny Brice and from watching this clip she truly was what the musical says. What a talent she was!
The Marx brothers, Mack Sennett's 'Keystone Cops', and Fanny Brice...all come out of the Yiddish theater of the early 20th century in NY's lower east side. A huge contribution to what makes American comedy so great. The sitcom 'Seinfeld' was in a more contemporary tradition but the old Yiddish shtick is still there. Love this stuff.
Fanny Brice was a unique one of a kind comedienne. She combined the facial expressions, dialogue delivery and Jewish accent becoming one of the greatest talents of the 20th century. This skit from the 1946 Ziegfield Follies is such a priceless gem that shows it all, and no comedy done today comes anywhere close. Great upload, thanks!
Gotta love these timeless Yiddish Theatre skits - gave meaning to drawing-room comedy/drama on music hall stages everywhere. Skelton was prime practitioner as well. For some more fare, the Yiddish selections on yootoob are well worth the viewing. Phil Silvers took it onto TV also.
I'm watching this for an online lecture tomorrow on Funny Jewish Women, and I'm to write comments. Fanny Brice's humor involves wryness, facial expressions, and sneakiness (at least in this skit)--oh, and that accent! I've seen Funny Girl several times, but I'm not sure I've seen the real Fanny Brice perform before. Yet she seems familiar, so perhaps I have seen her perform without my recognizing her. Besides Funny Girl and Funny Lady, she's mentioned in the song "If Momma Was Married" from Gypsy: "We aren't the Lunts./I'm not Fanny Brice." BTW, it was fun to see a young Hume Cronyn!
Great to get a little insight into this kind of pre TV vaudeville comic style. Not something that really lived on in the movies either although they overlapped. Sophie Lennon in Mrs Maisel clearly harks back to similar artists.
She is remarkably unsubtle and "broad" but somehow it all works and you can't take your eyes off her. Priceless gem. Sad that she didn't do more movies but her overplaying was more acceptable on stage I suppose.
The skillful nuances of Ms. Brice were brilliant! We will never see the likes of Ms. Brice again-AND THAT INCLUDES MS> STREISAND WHO I ADORE BUT WHOSE COMIC SKILL DOES NOT COMPARE TO FANNY!!!
Didn't know that Hume Cronyn was capable of doing comedy so well. I remember him as a distinguished dramatic performer, but he played the skit like one of the Stooges. That type of comedy must performed aggressively in order to get the laugh. If Fannie hadn't gone all out, it wouldn't have been so funny.
I read they talked about making a play on Broadway about Fanny' s life when she was still alive, and she said she wanted Joan Davis to play her, but Joan died in the early 1960s.
Joan Davis was so much like Fanny Brice that it would've been a foregone conclusion that Davis would've been perfect for a Fanny Brice biopic, except that Davis died so young. Davis' "I Married Joan" was the sitcom Brice would've starred in had she lived and would've been 15 years younger. Brice could've starred on television but she would've been a matriarch, a la Molly Goldberg, rather than a Lucy Ricardo/Joan Stevens zany housewife.
Thank You So much for posting this! There are (sadly) very few clips of Fanny,well clips of any length that is. Also other clips are too short or show her singing(which I like) but it is great to see her in comedy too.
This role got him his job as Fred Mertz. Lucy and Desi recalled this sketch when Frawley approached them for the part. Plus, Lucy was in this movie as well and befriended Fanny during the filming.
Is there some sort of Repository for Fanny Brice and her work? Because goodness knows we will never see anything this good on "television" (or whatever) ever again!
I found it. Arthur Walsh ... Telegraph Boy ('A Sweepstakes Ticket') (uncredited) Ziegfeld Follies (1945) www.imdb.com/title/tt0039116/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
Is that King Cat Walsh?? He danced the swing dance routine with Lucille Ball in “I love Lucy.” That’s the episode where Ricky goes to the eye doctor and Lucy gets her pupils dilated. Welsh was very good in that episode.
+magovenor Nonsense. Streisand was already the hottest young singing star in America before she opened in Funny Girl. Her talent and appeal would have made her a legend under any circumstances, Funny Girl just acculturated things.
It's the direction - they filmed one of her stage routines and didn't tone it down for the camera. If you watch her in "Be Yourself", "The Great Ziegfeld" or "Everybody Sing" she's fine.
Fanny Brice must have been great on stage, because she's grotesque on screen. Too huge and even gross at times. Like a moster. Didn't anyone direct her here?
Perhaps your observation is generational. Fanny Brice was one of the greatest comedians and she used her whole body to perform comedy; most of us are thankful that the movie included this famous routine. And Hume Cronyn was right there with Miss Brice all the way.
A lot of stage actors look like they're overdoing it on the screen, for i stance Carol Channing didnt have much of a film career because she was "too much" on film.
![BE YOURSELF [1930] - Fanny Brice, Robert Armstrong](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/b9k_EqjfWfQ/mqdefault.jpg)
This is the only Fanny Brice performance I’ve ever seen. Now I know why she is considered such a legend!
The funny thing is, out of this whole movie with all those stars, Fanny was the only one who had ever been in an actual Ziegfeld Follies.
What will it be like if there are other stars from the actual Ziegfeld Follies, that would've been brilliant.
@@reneastle8447 One can only dream!
@@kbye2321 Florenz Ziegfeld himself would've been involved with the film version.
@@reneastle8447 Imagine Will Rogers in that movie! He would’ve been a hit!
@@kbye2321 Along with Ed Wynn, W.C. Fields, Bert Williams, Eddie Cantor, Marilyn Miller, and other veterans of the Ziegfeld Follies.
What great facial expressions Fanny Brice has!
William Frawley. Destined to be a landlord forever..
Ok I recently saw Funny Girl at playhouse square and I really enjoyed it and I'm just now learning more about Fanny Brice and from watching this clip she truly was what the musical says. What a talent she was!
Great to see this Broadway legend. Pity that she is almost forgotten by the majority of people today.
The Marx brothers, Mack Sennett's 'Keystone Cops', and Fanny Brice...all come out of the Yiddish theater of the early 20th century in NY's lower east side. A huge contribution to what makes American comedy so great. The sitcom 'Seinfeld' was in a more contemporary tradition but the old Yiddish shtick is still there. Love this stuff.
Fanny Brice was a unique one of a kind comedienne. She combined the facial expressions, dialogue delivery and Jewish accent becoming one of the greatest talents of the 20th century. This skit from the 1946 Ziegfield Follies is such a priceless gem that shows it all, and no comedy done today comes anywhere close. Great upload, thanks!
“Jewish” accent? What’s a Jewish accent? No such thing.
@@TheMrboogity Sorry, my mistake it's Yiddish. I stand corrected.
She really was brilliant. Her uncanny ability to incorporate every single big and small subtlety of vaudeville is incredible. I crave for more!
I'm so glad this exists to show what slapstick comedy she was capable of, probably only half of what she could do in vaudeville and yet so damn funny
This clip makes me wish Fanny had lived to have her own TV show. What a Funny Lady.
Gotta love these timeless Yiddish Theatre skits - gave meaning to drawing-room comedy/drama on music hall stages everywhere. Skelton was prime practitioner as well. For some more fare, the Yiddish selections on yootoob are well worth the viewing. Phil Silvers took it onto TV also.
“Talk, talk talk talk, don’t say a word” 😂 she was so funny.
It’s great to see this. She should have been a film star as well.
She was brimming with talent. Wow.
I'm watching this for an online lecture tomorrow on Funny Jewish Women, and I'm to write comments.
Fanny Brice's humor involves wryness, facial expressions, and sneakiness (at least in this skit)--oh, and that accent!
I've seen Funny Girl several times, but I'm not sure I've seen the real Fanny Brice perform before. Yet she seems familiar, so perhaps I have seen her perform without my recognizing her. Besides Funny Girl and Funny Lady, she's mentioned in the song "If Momma Was Married" from Gypsy: "We aren't the Lunts./I'm not Fanny Brice."
BTW, it was fun to see a young Hume Cronyn!
"Where somebody ?....I won. I won."... She is hilarious.
Great to get a little insight into this kind of pre TV vaudeville comic style. Not something that really lived on in the movies either although they overlapped. Sophie Lennon in Mrs Maisel clearly harks back to similar artists.
Fred Mertz in COLOR!
She is remarkably unsubtle and "broad" but somehow it all works and you can't take your eyes off her. Priceless gem. Sad that she didn't do more movies but her overplaying was more acceptable on stage I suppose.
NMA-T of
She’s really charming in a movie called “Be Yourself” which you can also find in here
Didn't anyone direct the woman for film? Damn, she's like Godzilla here.
@@ladyrose3285 Precisely, if she was in this movie, imagine the performance of comedy she must've provided.
The skillful nuances of Ms. Brice were brilliant! We will never see the likes of Ms. Brice again-AND THAT INCLUDES MS> STREISAND WHO I ADORE BUT WHOSE COMIC SKILL DOES NOT COMPARE TO FANNY!!!
This and red Skelton in “when television comes “ are my favorites from Ziegfeld’s follies 1946, on cd, and “pay the two dollars “
Who stops you get me every time
love love her! such a good actor!
I LOVE FANNY BRICE ❤😂😂😂❤
Hysterical!!!
Didn't know that Hume Cronyn was capable of doing comedy so well. I remember him as a distinguished dramatic performer, but he played the skit like one of the Stooges. That type of comedy must performed aggressively in order to get the laugh. If Fannie hadn't gone all out, it wouldn't have been so funny.
She was so funny
'Oh it's the door' line gets me every time. Wonder if Kristen Schaal is channeling Fanny?
I read they talked about making a play on Broadway about Fanny' s life when she was still alive, and she said she wanted Joan Davis to play her, but Joan died in the early 1960s.
Joan Davis was so much like Fanny Brice that it would've been a foregone conclusion that Davis would've been perfect for a Fanny Brice biopic, except that Davis died so young. Davis' "I Married Joan" was the sitcom Brice would've starred in had she lived and would've been 15 years younger. Brice could've starred on television but she would've been a matriarch, a la Molly Goldberg, rather than a Lucy Ricardo/Joan Stevens zany housewife.
All this, and Freddie Mertz, too!
Rare footage indeed.
This Was Honestly One Of The Funniest Things I've Ever Seen! Haha! I Absoloutly Love Fanny Brice!
Thank You So much for posting this!
There are (sadly) very few clips of Fanny,well clips of any length that is.
Also other clips are too short or show her singing(which I like) but it is great to see her in comedy too.
is that fred mertz from i love lucy
This role got him his job as Fred Mertz. Lucy and Desi recalled this sketch when Frawley approached them for the part. Plus, Lucy was in this movie as well and befriended Fanny during the filming.
So that is Huge Cronin? I would have guessed Rick Moranis!
Is there some sort of Repository for Fanny Brice and her work? Because goodness knows we will never see anything this good on "television" (or whatever) ever again!
Funny girl. ; )
It's obvious she was a genius like Lucille Ball...
Hilarious!
I think Woody Allen took some lessons from Fanny in the Yiddish humour ! Poison, he 'll give us ! Oy.
She kept her lovely figure ...
The old badger game, lol
BTW, who was the young man who delivered the telegram?
I found it.
Arthur Walsh ... Telegraph Boy ('A Sweepstakes Ticket') (uncredited)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0039116/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
Is that King Cat Walsh?? He danced the swing dance routine with Lucille Ball in “I love Lucy.” That’s the episode where Ricky goes to the eye doctor and Lucy gets her pupils dilated. Welsh was very good in that episode.
Now that was funny. Shame she had to leave so young.
$45 dollars rent a month!?! Ugh.
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I enjoyed that, would it be fair to say that without Fanny Brice there would have been no Barbara Streisand ? Just sayin...
+magovenor Nonsense. Streisand was already the hottest young singing star in America before she opened in Funny Girl. Her talent and appeal would have made her a legend under any circumstances, Funny Girl just acculturated things.
sure she was!
magovenor she was, you arrogant jerk. Do a little research.
barbra---BARBRA
Mr. K thank you for the correction, Barbra.
Have an apple, I don't have any comments XD
Tv comedy gold gone too soon. I could see her having her own show plus she and Lucy mightve had a few good gags....poor bill frawley...type casted
Not sure if it's just me, but this is out of sync...not to sound ingrateful though
strange slang she talks.......was she a Jewess ??
No, she's a Buddhist.
She was Jewish...
So wait, a man dies of a heartattack and thats comedy? Whaaaaaa?
islezeus He swooned. As yanks would have said at that time-he swounded!
The point is … honestly is the best policy !!
Gallows humor. But he may only have fainted.
He fainted.
What's funny is that is exactly how William Frawley died. He dropped dead on a Hollywood Blvd sidewalk while walking into an office building.
Not funny enough (Hume Cronyn is no comedian), but almost worth it just to see Fanny Brice in color.
No near as glam as Babs.
She's too over the top
It's the direction - they filmed one of her stage routines and didn't tone it down for the camera. If you watch her in "Be Yourself", "The Great Ziegfeld" or "Everybody Sing" she's fine.
Stop it.
Fanny Brice must have been great on stage, because she's grotesque on screen. Too huge and even gross at times. Like a moster. Didn't anyone direct her here?
That's quite obviously what shes doing for
Perhaps your observation is generational. Fanny Brice was one of the greatest comedians and she used her whole body to perform comedy; most of us are thankful that the movie included this famous routine. And Hume Cronyn was right there with Miss Brice all the way.
I know she did a lot of radio work...
A lot of stage actors look like they're overdoing it on the screen, for i stance Carol Channing didnt have much of a film career because she was "too much" on film.
My god, she's grotesque. Worse than Carol Channing or Ethel Merman.
"monty, it didn't voik. ve vas too namby-pamby."
my favorite comedienne ever