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Barbra Streisand won the 1968 Best Actress Oscar for her screen debut as rising Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice in FUNNY GIRL, which was also nominated for Best Picture and remains one of the most popular movie musicals ever made. Co-starring Omar Sharif, the film features the now-classic songs People and Don t Rain on My Parade. She reteamed with Omar Sharif in 1975 for the sequel FUNNY LADY, which featured an all-star cast and was nominated for 5 Academy Awards , including Best Original Song for How Lucky Can You Get. System Requirements:Running Time: 100 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE
"[Funny Girl is]...first rate..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"Sequels are seldom as good as the originals, but Funny Lady comes close." The Motion Picture Guide
Editor's Note
A two-volume collection of Streisand's beloved Fanny Brice musicals. See individual titles for details.
Plot Summary
"Funny Girl": Barbra Streisand won an Oscar for her reprisal of her hit Broadway role.| Streisand plays Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice in this highly fictionalized musical biopic. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from the 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.| Among the film's most popular songs are "Don't Rain on My Parade", "People [Who Need People]" and "My Man".| "Funny Lady": A sequel to William Wyler' Oscar-winning "Funny Girl" (1968). The story of vaudeville entertainer/comedienne Fanny Brice after her separation from playboy millionaire Nick Arnstein, and her subsequent professional and personal relationship with Broadway producer, songwriter and entrepreneur Billy Rose.
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