FUNNY GIRL

Funny Girl
Rastar Productions / Columbia, 1968, Color, 151 minutes, ***½
Released September, 1968

Barbra Streisand took home a Best Actress Oscar for her role as singer / comedienne Fanny Brice in this classic musical comedy. Follow the ups and downs of Brice's personal and professional lives, from her days as a rollerskating chorus girl to a star-making turn in "Ziegfeld Follies" and her marriage to dashing gambler Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif). With Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon; songs include "People" and "Don't Rain on My Parade."

Produced by: Ray Stark
Directed by: William Wyler
Musical Numbers Directed by: Herbert Ross
Assistant Directors: Jack Roe, Ray Gosnell
Screenplay by: Isobel Lennart
Based upon the play with Music by Jule Styne, Lyrics by Bob Merrill
Book by Isobel Lennart
From the original story by Miss Lennart and produced by Rastar Productions
Music Supervised and Conducted by: Walter Scharf
"My Man" Music by Maurice Yvain French lyrics by A. Willemetz and Jacques Charles, English adaptation by Channing Pollack
"Second Hand Rose" by James F. Hanely and Grant Clarke
"I'd Rather Be Blue" by Fred Fisher and Billy Rose
Music by: Jule Styne
Lyrics by: Bob Merrill
Orchestrations: Jack Hayes, Walter Scharf, Leo Shuken, Herbert Spencer
Choreography: Herbert Ross
Vocal Dance Arrangements: Betty Walberg
Production Designer: Gene Callahan
Art Director: Robert Luthardt
Set Decorator: William Kiernan
Barbra Streisand's Costumes Designed by: Irene Sharaff
Make-up Supervision: Ben Lane
Make-up Artist: Frank McCoy
Hair Styles by: Virginia Darcy, Vivienne Walker
Sound Supervisor: Charles J. Rice
Sound: Arthur Piantadosi, Jack Solomon
Director of Photography: Harry Stradling
Color by Technicolor, Filmed in Panavision
Supervising Film Editor: Robert Swink
Film Editors: Maury Winetrobe, William Sands

Awards: Academy Award for Best Actress (Barbra Streisand tied with Katharine Hepburn); Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Kay Medford), Best Cinematography (Harry Stradling), Best Film Editing (Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe, William Sands), Best Score - Musical (Walter Scharf), Best Song ("Funny Girl") and Best Sound

Cast: Barbra Streisand [Fanny Brice], Omar Sharif [Nick Arnstein], Kay Medford [Rose Brice], Anne Francis [Georgia James], Walter Pidgeon [Florenz Ziegfeld], Lee Allen [Eddie Ryan], Mae Questel [Mrs. Strakosh], Gerald Mohr [Branca], Frank Faylen [Keeney], Mittie Lawrence [Emma], Gertrude Flynn [Mrs. O'Malley], Penny Santon [Mrs. Meeker], John Harmon [Company Manager], Thordis Brandt, Bettina Brenna, Virginia Ann Ford, Alena Johnston, Karen Lee, Mary Jane Mangler, Inga Neilsen, Sharon Vaughn [Ziegfeld Girls]

Musical Program: [0:00] Overture: "People" (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:07] If a Girl Isn't Pretty (sung by Mae Questel and Kay Medford); [0:11] I'm the Greatest Star (performed by Barbra Streisand); [0:17] Roller Skate Rag (sung and skated by Barbra Streisand and Girls Chorus); [0:19] I'd Rather Be Blue Over You (Than Be Happy with Somebody Else) (sung by Barbra Streisand); [0:30] Second Hand Rose (sung by Barbra Streisand); [0:36] His Love Makes Me Beautiful (production number performed by Barbra Streisand, Ziegfeld Girls and Chorus); [0:54] People (sung by Barbra Streisand); [1:11] You Are Woman, I Am Man (sung by Omar Sharif and Barbra Streisand); [1:25] Don't Rain on My Parade (sung by Barbra Streisand); [1:37] Sadie, Sadie (sung by Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif); [1:48] The Swan (comic version of "Swan Lake" performed by Barbra Streisand and Ensemble); [2:15] Funny Girl (sung by Barbra Streisand); [2:24] My Man (sung by Barbra Streisand)