How 'The Nanny' Paved the Way For Jewish Leads

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With 'The Nanny,' frandrescher cleared a path for vibrant, flawed, and unapologetic women to embrace their culture and come out on top.

The Nanny didn't need six seasons to become a cultural touchstone, with Peter Marc Jacobson and Fran Drescher's brainchild becoming one of the highest-rated sitcoms of the '90s, earning 12 Emmy nominations and cementing its place in sitcom history. Prior to creating the iconic Fran Fine, Drescher had small roles in films such as Saturday Night Fever, UHF, and This Is Spinal Tap — all successful, but not star-making.

COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY RELATED: How ‘Three Busy Debras’ Uses Unhinged Housewives to Satirize the American Suburbs Unlike the formal pleasantries of the Sheffield home, the familial warmth within the Fine household is one which emanates from bickering and long-held grudges borne of nothing at all. Of bonding over food, discount shopping, gossip, and of course, the long term quest to find Fran a Jewish doctor. Or Jewish accountant. Or Jewish man. Until, finally, she throws in the towel and declares she's "down to ‘mammal’”.

The aforementioned stereotype of Jewishness exists throughout the shows’ six seasons, but the embracing of her singledom, her style, and her spectacular adenoids are positioned as traits being celebrated, not ridiculed. Leading with a woman who is operating in another world without going full Pygmalion is rare and admirable, with Fran Drescher herself shutting down her critics' view that, “a good portrayal of a Jew, is an assimilated one”.

 

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