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Funny Girl

  • 19681968
  • GG
  • 2h 31m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
23K
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POPULARITY
5,220
138
Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif in Funny Girl (1968)
The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.
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The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relations... Read allThe life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
23K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
5,220
138
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    • Director
      • William Wyler
    • Writer
      • Isobel Lennart(based on the musical play by)
    • Stars
      • Barbra Streisand
      • Omar Sharif
      • Kay Medford
    Top credits
    • Director
      • William Wyler
    • Writer
      • Isobel Lennart(based on the musical play by)
    • Stars
      • Barbra Streisand
      • Omar Sharif
      • Kay Medford
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 114User reviews
    • 58Critic reviews
    • 89Metascore
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 8 wins & 16 nominations total

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    Omar Sharif and William Wyler in Funny Girl (1968)
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    Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif in Funny Girl (1968)
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    Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl (1968)
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    Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand
    • Fanny Brice
    Omar Sharif
    Omar Sharif
    • Nick Arnstein
    Kay Medford
    Kay Medford
    • Rose Brice
    Anne Francis
    Anne Francis
    • Georgia James
    Walter Pidgeon
    Walter Pidgeon
    • Florenz Ziegfeld
    Lee Allen
    • Eddie Ryan
    Mae Questel
    Mae Questel
    • Mrs. Strakosh
    Gerald Mohr
    Gerald Mohr
    • Branca
    Frank Faylen
    Frank Faylen
    • Keeney
    Mittie Lawrence
    • Emma
    Gertrude Flynn
    Gertrude Flynn
    • Mrs. O'Malley
    Penny Santon
    Penny Santon
    • Mrs. Meeker
    John Harmon
    John Harmon
    • Company Manager
    Thordis Brandt
    Thordis Brandt
    • Ziegfeld Girl
    Bettina Brenna
    • Ziegfeld Girl
    Virginia Ann Ford
    • Ziegfeld Girl
    Alena Johnston
    • Ziegfeld Girl
    Karen Stride
    • Ziegfeld Girl
    • (as Karen Lee)
    • Director
      • William Wyler
    • Writer
      • Isobel Lennart(based on the musical play by) (screenplay by)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif had an affair that lasted for the duration of the production. Director William Wyler, who knew about the affair, tried to channel their real-life chemistry into their performances. Streisand had also enjoyed a liaison with Sydney Chaplin, who portrayed Nick on stage. Both affairs would contribute to the end of her marriage to Elliott Gould.
    • Goofs
      Fanny Brice is depicted as a virginal ingenue who neither had been married nor had sex prior to meeting Nick Arnstein. In fact, she had married Frank White, a local barber, as a teenager; their marriage lasted three years.
    • Quotes

      Fannie Brice: I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!

    • Alternate versions
      The original theatrical version included an additional overture before the opening credits, an intermission after "Don't Rain On My Parade," and exit music after the end credits. These additional music pieces have been restored for the DVD release.
    • Connections
      Featured in This Is Streisand (1968)
    • Soundtracks
      Overture
      (uncredited)

      Music by Jule Styne

    User reviews114

    Review
    Top review
    9/10
    A Lot Of Fanny, But All Barbra
    There are two important things to remember about Funny Girl when writing about it or discussing it. The first is Nicky Arnstein was still alive in 1964 when it debuted on Broadway, he died the following year. The second is that Ray Stark, the producer of Funny Girl on stage and on the screen is the son-in-law of Fanny Brice and Nicky Arnstein. So off the bat you know you're going to get a sanitized version.

    Not that what they created was bad, how could it be for giving Barbra Streisand the role that made her a star on both stage and screen. Fanny Brice didn't do too bad out of it either, unlike a lot of her contemporaries she lives on through the artistry and interpretation of an icon in a future age.

    But was Fanny's story ever given the literary dry process cleaning. Eliminated was her brief marriage to a first husband. Changed is the fact that she knew exactly who at what Arnstein was before she married him. Arnstein was a big time con artist who had no shame whatsoever in using his famous wife's name as a come on. Fanny herself though was never involved in any of his schemes. Arnstein did in fact take the fall and never squealed on any of the ones behind him who certainly were more than capable of reprisals against him and possibly against Fanny Brice.

    Jule Styne and Bob Merrill wrote the original songs for the Broadway score and added one song, Funny Girl, for the film. But still the two standouts are Barbra Streisand's classic People and Don't Rain On My Parade, a couple of standards she's made almost exclusively her own. I don't think anyone else would attempt to sing them.

    Added to the film are a couple of contemporary songs that Fanny Brice made famous that Barbra reinterpreted, the classic My Man, a song she sang before Nicky Arnstein went to the joint, but still is identified as her lament for her husband in stir. She also sang Second Hand Rose, a really great comedy song, emphasizing Brice's Jewish heritage. I wish a couple of others had gotten in there. I've got Brice recordings of Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love and I'm An Indian. That last one is especially hysterical, Brice did it one of the Ziegfeld Follies dressed as an indigenous person to this continent with the last line being "I'm a Yiddishe Squaw". It's great to hear and must have been fabulous to see.

    Funny Girl got seven nominations which included Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Song, Best Musical Scoring, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Kay Medford, the only other player from Broadway besides Streisand to be in the film. But the only Oscar it got was a shared one when Barbra Streisand tied for Best Actress with Katharine Hepburn. One of the very few times someone got an Oscar for their very first big screen effort.

    Of course two things helped Barbra greatly. One was a role she had made her own and the second was direction by William Wyler who has won Best Director three times in his career and directed more players to Academy Awards than any other. Barbra was his last. Oddly enough he wasn't nominated for Best Director.

    Those who are interested in seeing Fanny Brice as she really was can see her in The Great Ziegfeld, The Ziegfeld Follies, and Everybody Sing all of which are out on DVD and/or VHS. I think Barbra channeled more of Fanny into Funny Girl than the sequel Funny Lady, but I'll let you the viewer be the judge of that.

    You can't go wrong seeing and hearing Barbra Streisand do some of the best material ever written for her in both films.
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    • Mar 2, 2009

    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 19, 1968 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Komik kız
    • Filming locations
      • Jersey Central Railway Station, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
    • Production companies
      • Columbia Pictures
      • Rastar Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $14,100,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $52,223,306
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $65,560
      • Sep 3, 2001
    • Gross worldwide
      • $52,224,636
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 31 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • SDDS
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1
      • 2.35 : 1

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