Funny Girl
The life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from Nick Arnstein.
16 April 1904, New Jersey, USA
2 June 1909, Bradford, Illinois, USA
25 September 1891, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
8 December 1905, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
July 18, 1944 in Walterboro, South Carolina, USA
21 September 1907, New York City, New York, USA
19 May 1912, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
3 November 1924, Millinocket, Maine, USA
6 September 1904, Bari, Puglia, Italy
15 April 1933, Meherrin, Virginia, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
31 July 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 26, 1938 in USA
October 1, 1889 in Los Angeles, California, USA
October 5, 1907 in Vilna, Russia
3 November 1930, Brooklyn, New York, USA
10 April 1932, Alexandria, Egypt
July 12, 1921 in Manchester Depot, Iowa, USA
August 4, 1902 in Hericy, France
June 27, 1914 in Potchefstroom, South Africa
July 23, 1916 in Staffordshire, England, UK
September 8, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA
January 12, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 September 1941, USA
October 25, 1924 in Michigan, USA
December 16, 1932 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
August 12, 2008
A fine movie musical and a nice reminder of the time when Streisand was a talent rather than a 'phenomenon'.
August 12, 2008
This extended Streisand Special has done absolutely nothing to correct the flaws in the Broadway original.
October 12, 2001
The fun is there whenever Streisand is, and that could be reason enough for reacquainting yourself with Funny Girl.
August 12, 2008
Few film debuts in the 1960s were more auspicious than that of Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.
February 03, 2017
In lesser hands this would fall flat because nothing is written to comfort the supporting players. They are extras with names and blurred faces.
August 12, 2008
Streisand is stunning, but the film is a trial, particularly when the music disappears somewhere around the 90-minute mark and all that's left is leaden melodrama.
August 12, 2008
Barbra Streisand in her Hollywood debut makes a marked impact.
February 15, 2012
Dazzling musical romance is long but entertaining.
January 28, 2008
[Streisand gives] a natural, unforced performance, easily one of the three or four best Best Actresses in Oscar history.
October 23, 2004
It is impossible to praise Miss Streisand too highly; hard to find much to praise about the rest of the film.
February 07, 2008
I wish William Wyler's direction was more inventive and humurous (it's his first musical), but Streisand gives a meteoric performance, as Fanny Frice and as herself, showing a tremendous charismatic presence that goes beyond physical looks and acting.
January 26, 2006
Well worth watching, even if most later Streisand movies aren't.
