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Funny Girl (1968)

Movie"People who see FUNNY GIRL are the luckiest people in the world!"
Audience Score
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G 2 hr 35 minSep 19th, 1968Comedy, Romance, DramaFanny Brice Collection PosterPart of Fanny Brice Collection
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
StarringBarbra StreisandOmar SharifKay Medford
DirectorWilliam Wyler

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:September 19th, 1968 - Buy Tickets
On DVD & Blu-ray:October 23rd, 2001 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$14,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$52,223,306 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Columbia Pictures, Rastar Productions
Movie Tags:
musicalmarriagedivorcecomedian

Fanny Brice Collection

Funny Girl is a 1968 American biographical musical comedy-drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart was adapted from her book for the eponymous stage musical. It is loosely based on the life and career of Broadway and film star and comedian Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein. The first film stars Barbra Streisand (in her film debut reprising her Broadway role) as Brice and Omar Sharif as Arnstein. In 1975, Streisand reprised her role of Brice opposite James Caan as Brice's third husband, impresario Billy Rose, in a sequel entitled Funny Lady.