The community was once popular with celebrities such as Fanny Brice, Carl Reiner, and Mel Brooks.
According to old-timers, he was first called Baby Snooks, named after a popular radio character on the The Baby Snooks Show played by Fanny Brice in the late 1940s.
Following the 1932 death of Florenz Ziegfeld, the Shuberts acquired the rights to the name and format of his famed Ziegfeld Follies, and they presented the 1934 and 1936 editions of the Follies featuring performers such as Fanny Brice, Bob Hope, Josephine Baker, Gypsy Rose Lee, Eve Arden, The Nicholas Brothers, and Buddy Ebsen.
Fanny Brice | Brice Marden | Fanny Kemble | Fanny Crosby | Williams-Brice Stadium | Fanny Howe | Fanny Hill | Fanny Elssler | Pierre Brice | Lee Brice | Fanny Cerrito | Brice Stratford | Saint-Brice-en-Coglès | Fanny Price | Fanny Lewald | Fanny Fitzwilliam | Fanny Blankers-Koen | Fanny and Alexander | Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble | Tom Brice | St. Brice's Day massacre | Russell Brice | Madame Fanny La Fan | Le Casse de Brice | Fanny Rabel | Fanny Parnell | Fanny Hill (2007 serial) | Fanny Elßler | Fanny Baker Ames | Fanny Arthur Robinson |
Many of the biggest names in theater, radio, and motion pictures were featured on these albums, such as: Bing Crosby, Harold Peary ("The Great Gildersleeve"), Orson Welles, Jeanette MacDonald, Roy Rogers, Fanny Brice, William Boyd ("Hopalong Cassidy"), Ingrid Bergman, Danny Kaye, and Fredric March.
He impersonated many famous actresses and singers including Pearl Bailey, Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Fanny Brice, Carol Channing, Cher, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Phyllis Diller, Hermione Gingold, Hildegarde, Eartha Kitt, Ethel Merman, Barbra Streisand, Kay Thompson, and Mae West.
While putting together the Broadway musical Funny Girl—the highly fictionalized account of the life of his mother-in-law, Fanny Brice—its producer David Merrick took Stark and his wife, Frances, to see an unknown singer perform at the Bon Soir in Greenwich Village.
Their clients included many of the leading entertainment personalities of the day including George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn, Ira Gershwin, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Fanny Brice, Cary Grant, Lillian Gish, Ray Milland and Loretta Young.
Although the names of the principal characters were changed, the plot was obviously inspired by vaudeville entertainer Fanny Brice's career and marriage to gambler Nicky Arnstein (both the film's title tune and "My Man" were closely associated with Brice), and Brice sued 20th Century Fox for $750,000.
With Al Goodman leading the orchestra, the line-up of guests included Fanny Brice, Helen Morgan, Jack Pearl, Will Rogers, and Ziegfeld himself.
"Mon Homme", song first sung by Mistinguett, popularized in English as "My Man" by Fanny Brice (and by Barbra Streisand playing Brice in Funny Girl)