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Funny Girl. The trouble with "Funny Girl" is almost everything except Barbra Streisand. She is magnificent. But the film itself is perhaps the ultimate example of the roadshow musical gone overboard. It is over-produced, over-photographed and over-long. The second half drags badly.
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TRAILER. In this bittersweet, classic musical drama, the vibrant and beautiful young Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) starts out as a bit player on the New York City vaudeville stage, but works her...
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Big and bright and splashy, Funny Girl is one of the last great, old-style musicals produced in Hollywood. Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Kay Medford, Mae Questel, Frank Faylen, and Lee Allen co-star. Meford won a supporting Oscar nomination as the mother.
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting. It’s remarkable how much of the film is constructed on, and succeeds because of, Streisand’s face and how it is lit and...
Funny Girl is a 1968 American biographical-musical film directed by William Wyler and written by Isobel Lennart, adapted from her book for the stage musical of the same title. It is loosely based on the life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein .
Feb 12, 2002 · Funny Girl (1968) Reviewed by Jamie Russell. Updated 12 February 2002. Painstakingly restored over a three-year period, this new print of William Wyler's 1968 musical boasts some freshly...
Oct 10, 2022 · Lea Michele gives this 'Funny Girl' what the revival previously lacked: charisma, astonishing vocals and assuredness — not to mention a killer fan base.
