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Features: DVD
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.
A year later Fanny is working for Florenz Ziegfeld in his famous Follies and brings the house down with an outrageous and unplanned number. Fanny becomes a star, falls in love and marries Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), a handsome gambler whose luck doesn't hold up. The film's many memorable songs include "Don't Rain On My Parade" and the Streisand classic "People."
Editor's Note
In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side, rose to fame and won audience's hearts everywhere with her comic antics and powerful singing. Unfortunately, she had far less success in her personal life, and the film focuses on her doomed romance with her first husband, gambler Nicky Arnstein.
| Features | Production Notes | | Scene Selections | | Filmographies | | Bonus Trailers | | Interactive Menus | | Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Thai | | Bonus Featurettes: "Barbara In Movieland" and "This Is Streisand" | | Song Highlights | | Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video | | Widescreen Presentation | | Audio: English 5.0 (Dolby Digital) and 2-Channel (Dolby Surround), French |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 6/3/2003 |
| Running Time: 155 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1968 | | Catalog ID: 03089 | | UPC: 00043396030893 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1968) |  | Barbra Streisand, Winner, Best Actress in a Leading Role | | | Kay Medford, Nominee, Best Actress in a Supporting Role | | | Harry Stradling Sr., Nominee, Best Cinematography | | | William Sands, et al., Nominee, Best Film Editing | | | Walter Scharf, Nominee, Best Music, Score of a Musical Picture | | | Bob Merrill (lyrics) & Jule Styne (music), Nominee, Best Music, Song | | | Ray Stark, Nominee, Best Picture | | | Nominee, Best Sound | |
Golden Globe (1968) | | Barbra Streisand, Winner, Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy | | | William Wyler, Nominee, Best Motion Picture Director | | | Bob Merrill (lyrics) & Jule Styne (music), Nominee, Best Original Song |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"...As enthralling as the day it was released in 1968. It is a superb example of Hollywood craftsmanship in which all elements have been blended to perfection with inspired artistry..." 08/31/2001 p.6Total Film
"...Quirky, charming and very funny, Babs screams talent..." 03/01/2002 p.107 Entertainment Weekly
"...As an exercise in unintentional self-revelation, it's mesmerizing, with Streisand hammering home the comedy..." 11/02/2001 p.55 |
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