The Dark Truth About Hollywood's Funny Girl

In the realm of comedy, Fanny Brice reigned supreme, turning obstacles into punchlines with unmatched flair. Throughout her career, she fearlessly challenged norms, captivating audiences with her wit and talent, refusing to let any man stand in her way. However, behind the scenes, her personal life was marked by a different story, where the challenges she faced were often intertwined with the men who crossed her path.
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[@Antney946]

TL:DW Save yourself a month, SHE HAD DENTURES.

[@user-hr3tx6uu9o]

So did Clark Gable!

[@GiftSparks]

everyone had dentures back then

[@user-hr3tx6uu9o]

@@GiftSparks No doubt but I'd never seen them on a kitchen counter before until my step-grandfather's sister "Aunt Lucy," took hers out and would leave them there. I'd never seen dentures out of someone's mouth and I was a kid. It was scary to me. My grandmother had a fit!

[@hectorheath9742]

Thanks for the heads up😂

[@spacewurm]

By “dark truth” I thought we’d learn she liked to eat used baby diapers and drink toilet water.

[@filmsforsmartpeople3587]

So taking out her teeth at parties was the "disgusting, shocking" thing she did? big deal.

[@MartinAhlman]

Well can't do it! *Budum-tish*

[@SWog617]

I'd be surprised and shocked.

[@nancyvillines4552]

I forgot to take out my partial once. About a half hour later I feel it crack. But I always tried to hide taking them out. Finally saved enough for a whole new set. 😂

[@chrisw8627]

Thank you !!!

[@CarolAnn-gh9fl]

Everyone has an uncle that doe this

[@denny8093]

I bet Barbra Streisand was sure glad they left the dinner party dentures out of the movie lol😂

[@dadyarusski4594]

Can we talk about how gorgeous Omar Sharif was😍 I mean what a make over for Nicki Anstine❤

[@JuneBarbone]

Soooooo gorgeous 🥰

[@justyne8627]

You are always reincarnated in better form on film

[@dadyarusski4594]

Usually films embellish people life stories, but my gosh, I don't think Funny Gir/Lady scratched the surface of this woman's life. I am now more interested in knowing more about her❤

[@KarmicSalt]

been said many times before, if they will cheat with you, they will cheat on you

[@djsandvig1]

30 seconds of content crammed into 16 minutes of YAWN delivered in a flat monotone………sheesh

[@bluecat2741]

When I had been a child many elderly people used to take their dentures out before eating something. They didn't want to damage them and were quite uncomfortable when it came to chewing. So seeing some dentures sitting beside a plate wouldn't shock me too much 😂

[@margaretdrew2844]

Thank you for posting this story of Fanny’s life . I only knew what I saw on the two films funny girl ,and funny lady . ❤

[@ebonie1603]

Wow!! I wasted a whole 16 minutes and 56 seconds to find out that was the “Dark Truth”. 🤦🏾‍♀️😂 Unlike others on thread, l won’t spoil the outcome for anyone else. 🌹

[@justyne8627]

they have to get your attention somehow

[@robfromvan]

No, you should spoil it so they don’t have to listen to a long boring video just to find out it’s nothing really all that shocking

[@ebonie1603]

@@robfromvan 😂

[@jazzfan6]

I'll spill the beans -- at parties she used to lift her skirts and take a dump right on the carpet . . . NOT! 🤪

[@user-sh8vg9sk5c]

A very interesting documentary about M/S Brice that shows how the show, and films 'Funny Girl', and 'Funny Lady', tweaked the stories. In itself, it is nice to know the true stories. Thank you for this.

[@StorytimerAtLarge]

I love this presenter’s voice. Great story. Absolutely love Fanny Brice!

[@mojogaucho]

Curses! Fell for the old clickbait title trick again ! Second time this week.

[@davidhuffman625]

Fantastic! That was exactly what I was hoping it would be. Every time I click on something nowadays, there’s a very good chance it will be some AI generated garbage. Thank you for being honest and doing it correctly.

[@heidibee501]

I saw the two movies about her, but did not actually see her. Having rectified that l can only say she was beautiful, but her comedic talent outshone her looks. In a business where pretty women abound, that makes her special.

[@garymazzeo3490]

Clark Gable was known to do the same with his teeth !

[@StarkeyatRingo]

the ILLUSION of the Big Screen - and how it has Shaped Reality really needs to be looked at

[@debbierowley8833]

Bit of click baiting going on here....don’t think lobbing out your false teeth warranted this dreary build up.

[@lorenengland4079]

I used to listen to that radio show of Baby Snooks. When Baby Snooks died, I cried.

[@junevaughan9465]

My great aunt was best friends with Fanny Brice in the early years in Manhattan.

[@guttersnipe4270]

My brother used to take out his teeth to eat. I wonder how common that action truly is.

[@christienelson1437]

People would ask for a glass of water to put their dentures in when eating.

[@mizfrenchtwist]

@@christienelson1437 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ronmackinnon9374]

(11:11) That's Dorothy Kilgallen as a panelist on 'What's My Line?'

[@antoniogreco1197]

Yes!

[@samanthabloggins1775]

What the commentors dont realize is that social graces were sooooooooooo totaly differant back when Fanny took her teeth out! That would have been a sin. You never farted in public either! Today anything goes!

[@pinkparasollise9646]

I worked in the Hollywood film/TV industry 35 years ago. A fellow Hollywood worker told me a story about the actress Tallulah Bankhead. She was on an elevator with a few other people and 'passed gas.' One of them said to her, 'excuse me, Miss Bankhead, but did you pass gas?' She replied "Of course I did, dahhhling. Do you think I smell like this all the time?'

[@samanthabloggins1775]

@@pinkparasollise9646 I guess only the famous could get away with anything!!

[@NiecieSavo]

Nobody cared when Clark Gable did it

[@JL-re1rx]

Correct English: “…older and richer than SHE…” Thanks for sharing! All the best!

[@BLONDIE546]

Cartoon character Olive Oil couldve been created from her❤❤

[@daveb7811]

Oyl

[@haplessasshole9615]

@@daveb7811 Yep. And many people forget Olive Oyl had a brother, Castor Oyl. I'm not making this up!

[@daveb7811]

@@haplessasshole9615 And let's not forget Wimpy and Ham Gravy.

[@user-hr3tx6uu9o]

Olive Oyl was created by mocking Zasu Pitts!❤

[@pamelasimone5084]

I think Olive Oyl was inspired by Zazu Pitts

[@kathleengenieve3804]

Florence ziegfeld's first name is pronounced like Florence, Italy. You're putting emphasis on the wrong syllables of his name. His first name is pronounced the same way you pronounce a woman's name if her name was Florence. There's a lot of names that are seemingly androgynous. John Wayne's first name was "Marion." You can see why his first name was changed to John. Frank Sinatra's first name was legally "Francis." Just because a man has it doesn't mean it's pronounced any differently just as a woman can be nicknamed Sam if her name is Samantha.

[@DavidHalChester]

Having dentures" was/is not a "dark truth." It was/is a reality for many, at least in the past.

[@owenmcghee1666]

That was captivating. I'd never heard of her before. Thank you for sharing this story

[@GiftSparks]

see the films “Funny Girl” and “Funny Lady”.

[@hanselpollack4075]

What was Katherine Hepburn thinking?! Fanny Bryce was known to not only be grossly ill mannered, but proud of it! She had as much grace and charm as a Silverback female, and cultivated “obnoxious” to a fine art. Now, Barbara Streisand is famously neurotic, anxiety ridden, and difficult, but she can preform charmingly, and was an honor for Bryce in her portrayal.

[@christienelson1437]

Something to consider is that Brice was Jewish and looked it. Many famous comedians who are loved today played the card on and off stage to protect their careers and lives. Al Jolson, Marx Brothers, George Burns, Red Buttons and the list goes on and on were and are likely very different when not in public. I am guessing Hepburn knew this from very personal experiences that Brice was protecting herself and had low self esteem.

[@TheNester.]

Streisands family is Jewish.

[@user-rz8bu6vl8x]

I have always been intrigued with Fannie Brice since I saw funny girl.

[@joem715]

I doubt that Fanny's baby character had anything to do with young people becoming disrespectful and more challenging toward adults and authority. Times changed and along with it parenting. I see a huge difference in only a few decades since I was a teenager and how teens are now. I don't think an adult woman playing a baby on stage could've left such a drastic impact on kids.

[@justyne8627]

They have to blame it on something besides the depression or ills caused by corporations, leaving kids without a future and not giving a damn

[@mikenixon2401]

Good bio report. Thank you for being a real person narrator.

[@ronmackinnon9374]

(14:59) There was also a third, don't forget -- Julie Benko, who started as Beanie Feldstein's understudy for the lead role, but wound up occasionally filling in for her and then taking over for more than a month in mid-2022 (sometimes getting more favorable reviews from critics and audiences than Feldstein had) before Lea Michele arrived. Meanwhile, Katerina McCrimmon was cast in the part for the touring production, which started in the fall of 2023.

[@gwugluud]

What is the attraction of gambling? Because casinos are torn down and replaced with new ones three times larger every five years, because they give away so much money.

[@Lizzy00088]

Thanks for this very informative bio.

[@rivaridge7211]

It was fun to see the clip of a very young Judy Garland performing with Fanny Brice at 12:06 - from a film called "Everybody Sing" which was from 1938. This was a year before Judy starred in "The Wizard of OZ" which made her a major star. Incidentally, Billie Burke played Judy's mother in the 1938 film and would, of course, appear in the "OZ" film, playing "Glinda, the Good Witch."

[@volpeverde6441]

ridiculous video could have been wrapped up in 2 minutes....big climax was a yawn....

[@LD-qj2te]

A circuitous story and clickbait title . Why not just give it a simple title or more catchy. Dumb dumb dumb

[@smorgasbroad1132]

Agonizingly slow way to tell a story.

[@Bink808]

If you set playback speed to 1.25 it sounds a lot better

[@rebeccao8895]

Agreed. Happens a lot on this channel

[@sunnissi6026]

Play the video at a different speed

[@carolbrownleehalbert3593]

In that case, I won't read ...

[@dittedatte8046]

And tell not much at all...😬

[@dankennedy8266]

Comedic inserts are polite and successful.

[@janethammond5925]

As always with this channel they make you wait until virtually the end (16:18) before they tell you what the 'scandal' on the thumbnail actually is. In this case it's that Brice would spit out her false teeth before a meal (in front of other people) and insert her 'eating teeth'. Not sure if that nugget of information was worth the long wait.

[@tanyawest2017]

Because it’s not like there’s a super interesting biography of a fascinating and troubled moan happening while we ‘wait’.

[@ronmackinnon9374]

@@tanyawest2017 'moan'?

[@cyberessa]

My sister told a story once about a woman in a restaurant removing her teeth after she ate to clean them in the water glass, we all were so appalled. Later in life my sister developed Alzheimer. We were at a restaurant and after my sister had finished eating she took out her teeth and began to clean her dentures in the water glass.I quickly removed my sister and her teeth to the restroom It was the last time I would take my sister out for a meal.

[@user-vr6xm8lm1o]

I read two biographies about Fanny years ago, but as far as I remember they never mentioned anything about dentures. You’ve noticed in the movie “Funny Lady” she’s swearing at times. Yes, that much was true, soon after her divorce from Arstein she was swearing more often. But the second movie doesn’t ever say she was in the hospital at times - soon after doing TWO sketches for the “ Ziegfeld Follies” movie, Fanny had a heart attack, and was still doing her radio show until it was cancelled in 1951. In 1950, after Al Jolson died ( they were in the Broadway play Honeymoon Express) Fanny was asked what she thought about Jolson; all she was , “ I never liked him”. I meant Arnstein, and he treated his kids like they never existed.

[@cortrichards8179]

Lol.....I would probably do the same thing with my false teeth if I had some. Just stick the 'Flipper' ones in a glass of water and put in my real false teeth, so I could eat! I am sure that Fanny had a nice pair of Flippers to use when on screen or stage. Many stars did back in the day, and many still do. I am sure she thought nothing of it, but she probably did do it for the shock factor too. She certainly was a Funny Girl.

[@dianesmith8183]

I think the biggest secret was this was a DUDE...Kate Hepburn said 'Fanny has a knack for decorating 😅😂

[@brookehunsaker1875]

That’s what I was gonna say! Got that Princess Stephanie look.

[@bethewalt7385]

I can find NOTHING anywhere saying Fanny Bruce was actually male, so I'm calling bullshit on this, show your source material, proof, or shut the fck up, simple pimple, you're the pimple😂😂

[@RobertaReal7980]

Nicky Arnstein was a user & manipulator. He went with women who were vulnerable about their looks & made them feel grateful that he was with them.

[@marianparoo1544]

For some reason I thought he was Sephardic, despite his name, maybe because he was played by Omar Shariff.

[@rheahorvath9274]

Nicky Arnstein was not a good at all!! The movie made him look like a boy scout. It was very sad.

[@marianparoo1544]

@@rheahorvath9274 Hardly a Boy Scout. It was very clear he was a conman and a swindler.

[@jamesdaviddupre99]

A Harpo Marx video tells of him bringing Bryce to a Hollywood party and sitting next to his future wife Susan Fleming. No mention of her dating Harpo here. Whoops

[@tamb7587]

So glad I read the comments before I wasted my time…!

[@ronmackinnon9374]

(14:23) To be clear, Nicky Arnstein died in 1965, three years before the 'Funny Girl' film was released. So his legal threats likely concerned the stage production which ran in 1964 (though his sanitized portrayal in that in turn likely influenced that in the film version as well).

[@martafuentes4453]

Dennis the menace was also one of them with misbehave kids.

[@lelia660]

What's the DARK TRUTH??? You did a great job with this--so why the "clickbait" title?

[@vespelian]

Thanks for the comments. I took their advice, do likewise.

[@davidhinkson8856]

The thumbnail has her looking like a Dr. Seuss character. Barbra Streisand's "Funny Girl" movie was the second movie I ever saw in my life when I was about six years old.

[@christineweaver3090]

I've heard of her but never saw her at all

[@lrs7777]

Funny Girl

[@cocoaorange1]

I saw the movie last year.

[@lindabrennan4455]

If I were at an elegant dinner and someone did that with their teeth I would probably be pretty grossed out. Evidently she enjoyed grossing people out.

[@genniejefferson6588]

All this complaining, she tells the story from what she had. I enjoyed. She was goofy, but entertaining.😊

[@lindasue263]

I get the false teeth & needing real chompers for eating😂

[@GaryAa56]

They should have had Babs Stiesand spit out dentures, that would have made Funny Girl more realistic.

[@williamandrews4251]

Interesting, l had never heard of Fanny,what an amazing woman.

[@JenaEmerald]

Just jump to about 16:15 to get the scandal.

[@toddmoreno117]

"Factinate" --okay, I'll remember to avoid your clickbait garbage in the future.

[@maryellengrayberg9146]

Nicely done! I knew about all of these characters and of course, I knew about them partly because of Streisand's artistic interpretation of their connection! I just didn't know how they actually interplayed in each others lives. I actually found Fanny Brice ice to be more attractive than I thought she ever was even before Rhinoplasty. Billy Rose ...not so much.

[@kevinhealey6540]

The woman had humility.

[@violamateo-on8pc]

1:01 in the CC says she was born "on October 29th 18 1991). If that's the way you're going to put in subtitles, I think it would be better to not have any subtitles at all!

[@lisaguthrie174]

Very nice photography

[@straingedays]

Fanny just wanted to enjoy her food !!! I'd of laughed then asked one favour ? 💞Where can I get a set of chompers

[@mizfrenchtwist]

hello , great share , thank you for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰.....................

[@gailhoffmann9498]

The only thing "shocking and disgusting" was the narration of this video.

[@elainevankat5353]

Absolutely agree!!! (I couldn’t even finish the video)

[@susanlynch3730]

Have to agree, narration truly dreadful.

[@HarryMarsee-fw9ot]

It took seventeen long minutes to tell us Fanny Brice had false teeth! Click bait.

[@lindabrennan4455]

I turn the speed up on the video and put on the closed caption. That makes it go much faster.

[@HeleneRosler-ch8gf]

Clickbite 😢😢😢

[@raskltube]

THIS IS SO LAME, do not subscribe, we need to need to take a stand against click bait!

[@sabbatopuella6733]

Not sure if this channels take recommendations but I'd like to recommend Mary Pickford, Liza Minnelli, Bob Crane and Georges Méliès if able too.

[@TheVistakay]

Radio shows had live audiences and were the first studio audiences. FB wore the Snucks costume to give her fans a real show. It produced more laughter, too. Logic. 😐

[@WestVirginia1959]

Many people had Dentures by their 20s

[@criticalcrab1125]

PSA: I just Google the title of these long-winded channels & don’t even watch one second of their videos. So much for them getting any credit for trying to waste everyone’s time

[@j.s.6582]

Yeah, evidently it's "disgusting" to change one set of what were probably ill-fitting dentures for a set she could actually eat with. How dare she.

[@jeffcooper3433]

Anticlimactic to say the least.

[@TheJillianRussell]

Click bait. She had dentures. Oh, the HORROR!

[@ColbyHikes]

SHOCKING! SPOILER: 16:30 -- At fine dinners in public, she would remove her glamorous white false teeth and replace them with the ones for eating. What a waste of 17 minutes, a flat uninteresting chronology of Fanny Brice's life.

[@WonbyGrace2]

Love the old photos but waiting to tell she had two set of teeth and would swap at meal times was not that bad. Half the crowd probably had no real teeth either

[@sharonmatuszak6638]

Barbra was beautiful and MUCH BETTER Funny Girl than Fannie!

[@garymazzeo3490]

Barbara beautiful? omg.......you brain dead?

[@abbatrouble]

Beautiful? A blind person wouldn't think so!

[@sayhey7482]

OMG HOW DAHRE SHE !!! omg omg omg , im gonna be sick ! DENTURES !

[@LindaStoronsky-yk4df]

I thought she pulled an Amber Turd!

[@lyndypatriot2650]

So sad she was mute.🙃

[@ritaking8827]

Wwwwwwwwwhat dark truth?

[@salvagedb2470]

Is that fucking it !! , she Changed her Teeth?..

[@JennaLeigh]

This narrator is painful to listen to. She reads like that one kid in class you never want the teacher to call on. The one....who...drags...out...every...sentence...for...no...real reason.

[@oaksted338]

it's what she did after removing her teeth which caused the controversy

[@christineweaver3090]

Is that the scarecrow?

[@pamogirl5424]

Ray Bolger?

[@ronmackinnon9374]

Apparently, that actually is Ray Bolger (who, yes, played the Scarecrow in 'The Wizard of Oz') at 9:43, performing with Ziegfeld Follies.

[@caraqueno]

When is the incorrect use of "starlet EVER going to stop? Fanny Brice was always a STAR, never a starlet. This what happens when narrators, under 40 and heretofore unaware of stars before 1980, attribute terms and actions that are incorrect. For those who think this is no big deal, this is how history is rewritten. Imagine Adolf Hitler becoming, by 2045, just merely a strong leader in 1930's Germany and no mention of the Holocaust because younger vlog narrators are unaware of what transpired in Nazi Germany.

[@knewkirk8855]

So what If she took her teeth out. Now people don't even care about it

[@KristinesTruth]

That's a man.

[@janisporto]

click bait no dark truth at all

[@SDandRnRoll]

Pfft

[@Demosophist]

What's going on with these bio-pics? Myrna Loy?

[@anniegill1]

Ive never liked the look of her but taking your teeth out could be classed as . Not the sort of thing to do at a dinner or a party . I dont consider it as disgusting. I class it as inappropriate and not done in public .

[@Jsissom74]

She had dentures who cares 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@Albertanator]

Wow.....she was not a great looking gal was she.....