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Also Born on October 29

• James Boswell
  diarist, author (1740)
• Jean Giraudoux
  French novelist and dramatist (1882)
• R. B. Kitaj
  painter (1932)
• Richard Dreyfuss
  actor (1947)
• Winona Ryder
  actress (1971)
• Gabrielle Union
  actor (1972)

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Brice appeared in burlesque and vaudeville from 1906. She starred in the Ziegfeld "Follies" from 1910 onward, and in Broadway shows, emphasizing her plainness by means of a comic awkwardness. In 1937 she created for radio the popular role of Baby Snooks. She appeared in the films My Man (1928), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), and Ziegfeld Follies (1944). Three films have been based on her life, including Funny Girl (1968).

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See biography by Norman Katkov (1953).