CATHERINE JACOBY aka LORIA PARKER as Fanny Brice sings "ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE" in ZIEGFELD

CATHERINE JACOBY is the indomitable Fanny Brice, as she interrupts choreographer Miriam Nelsons dance rehearsal for The Ziegfeld Follies to audition her new song Rose of Washington Square for the Great Ziegfeld himself, in this scene from ZIEGFELD: The Man and His Women. The daughter of comedy writer Coleman Jacoby was familiar with the role, having recently played the famed diva-comedienne in Donn Ardens spectacular, multi-million dollar Hallelujah, Hollywood at the original MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Ms. Jacoby subsequently changed her name to Loria Parker and moved to New York where her affinity for stars of the 1920s continued to attract attention and acclaim. In his 1987 review for the nightclub revue Thanks For The Memory: The Songs of Ralph Ranger [including 20s icons Libby Holman and Mae West] The New York Times critic John S. Wilson wrote: The versatile Miss Parker projects the despair of a torch singer of the 20s, evokes Mae West without exaggerating a natural caricature and makes the most ofa Shirley Temple song as it might have been sung by Fanny Brice. [And note the cameo by actress/choreographer Miriam Nelson, who choreographed the film, as Ziegfeld's choreographer.] ZIEGFELD: The Man and His Women was a giant undertaking for television. The multi-million dollar three-hour move, which had its US television premiere on May 21, 1978, as part of NBC TVs Sunday night Big Event series, is the longest musical ever filmed for television. [The original 150-minute ...

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