Fanny Brice
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Search complete. 10 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Fanny Brice".
Sep 18, 2026
Zara McDonaldHOST
Oh.
Michelle AndrewsHOST
The character, Fanny Brice, is singing it as an anthem for self-confidence, "Nothing will get in the way of my dreams." [laughs]
Zara McDonaldHOST
[laughs] Okay, Tom Cruise.
Zara McDonaldHOST
How is Tom Cruise po- popping up in all of these?
Jack RussoHOST
Right
Lisa MorrisGUEST
... uh, she plays a character called Ka- uh, Fanny Brice, who is a real person.
Jack RussoHOST
Right.
Lisa MorrisGUEST
Um, and she wanted to break into show business, and the only job out there at the moment that she was there was in the chorus of a show where the girls had to rollerskate.
Jennifer LizotteGUEST
Taking advantage of what you can there, right? Even if it has this presumed dishonesty.
Avery TrufelmanHOST
And you can hear the change in the 1923 hit single Second Hand Rose by Fanny Brice.
Jennifer LizotteGUEST
Fanny Brice was a Jewish performer, comedian.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Father has a business, three-leg secondhand.
Jennifer LizotteGUEST
She played up her Jewishness.
Jennifer LizotteGUEST
She was one of the first major stars to use that.
Avery TrufelmanHOST
You might recognize the name Fanny Brice from the play Funny Girl.
Avery TrufelmanHOST
That was about her life.
Meg WashingtonGUEST
...
Meg WashingtonGUEST
Sally Bowles or yeah, you know, Dolly, Fanny Brice, or I w- wanted to, to do it.
Meg WashingtonGUEST
So I kind of finished high school kinda thinking I would do something like that.
Sarah KanowskiHOST
So how did you end up at the Con?
Miles EadieHOST
Associate producer Arthur Freed argued that the stage songs were too disconnected from the story and pushed instead for a fully integrated score, where each number would carry character and plot.
Miles EadieHOST
Early flirtations with a broader musical comedy approach, casting names like W.C. Fields or Fanny Brice, were dropped in favour of something closer to a coherent fantasy.
Miles EadieHOST
In the end, Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg were brought in to write an entirely new score built specifically for the film.
Miles EadieHOST
There was also a more practical calculation.
speaker_7NARRATOR
Ziegfeld Follies girls tell me that all the time the police were supposed to be searching for Nicky Arnstein, the alleged bond robber, Nicky was in his wife's dressing room.
speaker_7NARRATOR
He is married to Fanny Brice of the Follies and used to come to the show every night disguised as her colored maid.
speaker_7NARRATOR
Now that we are on the topic, a burning piece of information should be hurried out to the waiting world.
Ashley IaconettiADVERTISER
This is Ashley Iaconetti from the Almost Famous podcast.
KyleHOST
And at that point, there are many more women introduced in Ziegfeld's life, and And none of them are nearly as interesting as Anna Held and Louise Raynor playing her.
KyleHOST
You have Fanny Brice who comes in, Virginia Bruce who plays Audrey Dane.
KyleHOST
And like one of them is an alcoholic, so he's got to kind of navigate that with her.
KyleHOST
But all of that was so dull in comparison to what came prior that it was really kind of like, I'm not into it.
Layla MartinHOST
Mm-hmm.
Regena ThomashauerGUEST
Which was this incredible place where Fanny Brice and, um, incr- the Vaudeville performers had, had, you know, performed in.
Regena ThomashauerGUEST
It was very meaningful to me.
Layla MartinHOST
Mm.