Funny Girl

Funny Girl is a film based on the Musical comedy of the same name. The intrigue with half biographical is centered on the life and the career of Fanny Brice, film star, Broadway and comic, like its surging relation with the contractor and player Nicky Arnstein. The original title was My Man .

The adaptation for the screen in 1968, realized by William Wyler, gathers Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif in the role of Arnstein. Medford took again its role of the musical comedy and Walter Pidgeon was selected to interpret Flo Ziegfeld, with Anne Francis in the role of the show-girl Georgia James, although the majority of its perfomance were put aside to the assembly because of the insistence of Streisand, according to the rumors. The part played by Jean Stapleton on scene returned to Mae Questel. The fans of the original version of Broadway were dismayed to discover that the majority of its songs were eliminated. The most important addition is the song My Man, sung by Fanny Brice and used in all film end. Streisand gained the Academy Award for the Best Actress, an honor which it shared with Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter. The film was nominated in the following categories: Better Image, Better Secondary Actress (Kay Medford), Better Cinematography, Better Edition, Better Music, Better Partition for a Musical film (Original or Adapted), Better Original song ( Funny Girl ) and Better Sound.

Streisand accepted a Golden Globe for the Best Actress; nominations were also allotted to film, the song headlight and Wyler. The scenario of Lennart was worth to him to be recognized by the Writers Guild off America. The film was a large success in the cinemas and became the film having brought back the most money in 1968.

In 2006, the film reached the 16th place on the list of the best musical comedies made by the American Film Institute. In 1975, a continuation, considered as less good per many criticisms, left in room under the title Funny Lady , with James Caan in the role of the second husband of Brice, the business manager Billy Pink. It was néamoins a business success.

Another film of Hollywood, based apparently on the life of Brice, left in 1939 under the title Rose off Washington Square , with as main actors Alice Faye, Tyrone Power and Al Jolson. It is quite as false historically as following films.

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