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FUNNY GIRL. Singing, loving, wheedling, Barbra Streisand is a shower of bright lights as she re-creates Comedienne Fan ny Brice's star-crossed career...
FUNNY GIRL. Singing, loving, wheedling, Barbra Streisand is a shower of bright lights as she re-creates Comedienne Fanny Brice's starshoot over Broadway...
FUNNY GIRL. The many-splendored talents of Barbra Streisand not only recreate the saga of famed Comedienne Fanny Brice but mark the shining birth of the theater's new girl for all seasons...
Producer Ray Stark was feeling his way and burning his fingers on almost everything he touched. A fabulously successful film producer (Seven Arts Productions), he had never before done a Broadway show. Furthermore his wife Frances is the daughter of Fanny Brice and Nicky Arnstein. So there were book problems right away. The actual Nicky was considered unacceptable as a leading man. He was a shiftless con man with a column of mercury for a spine, a criminal record, and a cavalier attitude toward Fanny's devotion and fidelity...
People who knew and loved Fanny Brice say that Barbra's approximation of her is warmly moving and sometimes almost incredibly exact, but Barbra has never heard a Fanny Brice record or seen a Fanny Brice movie. Similarity draws from the shared Eastern-asphalt accents of the two women, from close resemblances in their wide mouths and angular gestures, and even more from the sense of courage that both put across in the act of provoking laughter...