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• Factual errors: Many details of Brice's life were changed for dramatic purposes. This is a drama, not a documentary.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the famous "tugboat scene", Fannie rides out on a New York Central tugboat painted jade green - a color which wasn't instituted on the boats till the early sixties. To be accurate, the tugboat would have to have been painted red with a black stack and the New York Central logo.
  
  
• Continuity: When Fanny finds out about the phony bonds she rips off her kid wig and her hair is all messed up and sticking out. In the next close up frame it has been combed down and styled perfectly.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: There are numerous moments when Fanny's vocals don't match her lip-synching.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the scene when Fanny sings "People", we see the sign on her mother's saloon showing the name "Brice's" which was Fanny's stage name. Her family name was "Borach" so the saloon could not have been named "Brice's."
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the opening sequence, in the walk to the theater, the "sunlight" is made by a visible spotlight.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At Fanny's celebration party, a camera shadow is visible twice, on the couple who dances between the camera and Fanny and Nick.
  
  
• Continuity: In Baltimore, Fanny and Nick come out of a restaurant and lean on a post. In the next cut, they are further down the pier and not leaning on the same post as before.
  
  
• Continuity: When walking out after Frances is born, chairs in the background are close, then spread out, then close again.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Fanny and Nicky are on the East Coast pier following a lobster dinner, the sun is setting over the ocean. In reality, this could only happen on the West Coast - the sun rises in the east.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Fanny's manager to be asks her if she could skate and she says yes, he says "be at rehearsal at 12:00 p.m." The next scene is at the regular opening night and he says to her "you said you could skate" - so what happened to the rehearsal?
  
  
• Continuity: In the roller-skating scene, Fanny loses her hat. It is on the front of the stage, near the orchestra pit when she begins to sing "I'd Rather Be Blue." During the rest of the scene, it has disappeared.
  
  

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