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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 February 1905, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
August 29, 1905 in Eynon, Pennsylvania, USA
2 September 1916, New York City, New York, USA
16 April 1904, New Jersey, USA
30 October 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 August 1913, New York, USA
13 May 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
July 18, 1944 in Walterboro, South Carolina, USA
19 December 1945, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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.
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.
February 15, 2012
Dazzling musical romance is long but entertaining.
August 12, 2008
Barbra Streisand in her Hollywood debut makes a marked impact.
August 12, 2008
A fine movie musical and a nice reminder of the time when Streisand was a talent rather than a 'phenomenon'.
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.
January 26, 2006
Well worth watching, even if most later Streisand movies aren't.
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.
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
This extended Streisand Special has done absolutely nothing to correct the flaws in the Broadway original.
