Overview
In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side, rose to fame and won audience's hearts everywhere with her comic antics and powerful singing. Unfortunately, she had far less success in her personal life, and the film focuses on her doomed romance with her first husband, gambler Nicky Arnstein.
Awards:
1968 - Academy Awards - Best Actress - Winner
Main Cast & Crew:
William Wyler - Director
Barbra Streisand
Omar Sharif
Kay Medford
Anne Francis
Walter Pidgeon
Lee Allen
Mae Questel
Gerald Mohr
Frank Faylen
Mittie Lawrence
Details
- Format: DVD
- Run Time: 147
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 043396030893
- Genre: MUSICALS & CAST RECORDINGS
- Rating: G (MPAA)
- Release Date: October 2001
Movie Reviews
Notes:
Barbra Streisand made her film debut with "Funny Girl."
Color by Technicolor.
Herbert Ross directed the musical numbers.
Reviews:
"...As enthralling as the day it was released in 1968. It is a superb example of Hollywood craftsmanship in which all elements have been blended to perfection with inspired artistry..." - 08/31/2001 Los Angeles Times, p.6
"...Quirky, charming and very funny, Babs screams talent..." - 03/01/2002 Total Film, p.107
"...As an exercise in unintentional self-revelation, it's mesmerizing, with Streisand hammering home the comedy..." - 11/02/2001 Entertainment Weekly, p.55
"[A]s the engine that keeps the train running, the 26-year-old Streisand is riveting." - 05/03/2013 Entertainment Weekly
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