One of the most popular movie musicals ever made, Funny Girl follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice - a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break at Keeney's Music Hall, her .. Read more
| Starring | Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis |
|---|---|
| Director | William Wyler |
| Genres | Romance |
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One of the most popular movie musicals ever made, Funny Girl follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice - a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break at Keeney's Music Hall, her hilarious debut as a roller-skating chorus girl gets her hired as a comedienne...
| Starring | Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon |
|---|---|
| Director | William Wyler |
| Studio | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Romance |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 04 Mar 2002 Production year: 1968 |
In his excellent autobiography, Charlton Heston recalls asking director William Wyler if he had any problems with Barbra Streisand on Funny Girl. Nah, not really, said Wyler, considering it's the first film she ever directed. This was a spectacular switch from stage to screen for Streisand, replicating her Broadway triumph as legendary entertainer Fanny Brice. Streisand's bravura performance earned her a joint Oscar for best actress (she shared the honour with Katharine Hepburn) and the film was nominated for a further seven, including best score and best song. This is a marvellous musical comedy, tracing Brice's rise from vaudeville to the Ziegfeld Follies by way of a troubled marriage to gambler Nick Arnstein, and Streisand is given fine support by the ultra-smooth Omar Sharif. It was the great Wyler's penultimate picture and his first attempt at a musical; its success led to a sequel, Funny Lady, seven years later.
Interminable cliché-ridden musical drama relieved by a few good numbers, high production gloss and the unveiling of a new powerhouse star.
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Hollywood producer Jon Peters has pulled plans to release an explosive memoir detailing Tinseltown's most torrid secrets - after he was threatened by a series of lawsuits from some of the industry's biggest players. The Batman boss had agreed a £462,350 deal with Harper-Collins Publishers for his insightful tome, titled Studio Head, which blew the lid on the behind-the-scenes goings-on of stars including his ex-girlfriend Barbra Streisand. In the book's proposal to the publishers, which... Read more