Funny Lady (1975)

Regisseur:

Herbert Ross

Drehbuchautoren:

Arnold Schulman (story)
Jay Presson Allen (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

15. März 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Musical | Komödie | Drama | Romanze

Werbezeile:

How Lucky Can You Get

Plot:

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

Plot Keywords:

Male Female Relationship | Husband Wife Relationship | 1930s | Love | Music

Auszeichnungen:

Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 6 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Disjointed bio sequel with a great Streisand performance

US TV Schedule:

Fri. Aug. 29

10:00 AM

OXYGEN

Besetzung

Barbra Streisand	...	Fanny Brice
James Caan	...	Billy Rose
Omar Sharif	...	Nicky Arnstein
Roddy McDowall	...	Bobby Moore
Ben Vereen	...	Bert Robbins
Carole Wells	...	Norma Butler
Larry Gates	...	Bernard Baruch
Eugene Troobnick	...	Ned (as Gene Troobnick)
Heidi O'Rourke	...	Eleanor Holm
Royce Wallace	...	Adèle
Lilyan Chauvin	...	Mademoiselle
Samantha Huffaker	...	Fran
Samantha C. Kirkeby	...	Fran (as Samantha Huffaker)
Matt Emery	...	Buck Bolton
Joshua Shelley	...	Painter

Alternativ:

Funny Lady (Österreich) (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

136 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Eastmancolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

4-Track Stereo

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:PG | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:6 | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:AL

Drehorte:

Pan-Pacific Auditorium - 7600 W. Beverly Boulevard, Fairfax, Los Angeles, California, USA

Firma:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Dies und das:

The book "Barbra: The Second Decade" features stills from a number of scenes cut from the final film; these include: more/longer scenes with Ben Vereen and scenes of her as Fanny Brice's popular "Baby Snooks" radio character a dramatic scene with Brice and her very young daughter

Pannen:

Faktische Fehler: Near the end of the movie, in a meeting between Brice and Rose, he mentions taking over the Ziegfeld Theatre. Rose took over the Ziegfeld Theatre after NBC dropped their lease long after Brice was dead. The discussion could not have taken place as portrayed in the film.

Dialogzitate:

Fanny Brice: [at her first meeting Billy Rose] If we hate the same people and you get your suit cleaned, it's a match.

Querbezüge:

Bezug enthalten in Three Days to Vegas (2007)

Soundtrack:

If I Love Again

Disjointed bio sequel with a great Streisand performance

This sequel to FUNNY GIRL gives us an older, shrewder, tougher Fanny Brice than in the first film and Streisand pulls out the stops to give another terrific performance - one that should have netted her an Oscar nom but didn't - it's way better than her work in FUNNY GIRL and that did deserve its Oscar.

The film's look at Brice's stormy second marriage to Billy Rose has two very big negatives working against it. First, Caan does a terrific job as Rose but the character is a dumb and abusive mug - he's common and Brice is really slumming here. So we can't really care that she makes a go of it. Second, the film is very disjointed. Great numbers we hear complete on the soundtrack album are truncated to a few seconds - others are complete as performed but the performance and staging are lacklustre.

Don't get me wrong - it's very entertaining -much more so than FUNNY GIRL. Streisand is funnier and has more character to work with. There's a plethora of songs, which keep things moving and colorful. However, it doesn't add up to much. An okay ride but with no real significance except

for Streisand's beautifully shaded performance.

I counted 23 musical numbers or snatches of same matching 12 numbers on the soundtrack album. Main Title (Isn't It Better?); Blind Date; More Than You Know; More Than You Know-reprise; Paper Moon/I Like Him; Girl Of Mine; Million Dollar Baby; Goodtime Charlie; You Must Have The Rain; So Long, Honey Lamb (truncated); Am I Blue? (truncated); I Got A Cold in My Nose; Goodtime Charlie- reprise; A Great Day; People (background music); More Than You Know - reprise; How Lucky Can You Get?; Isn't It Better?; Me And My Shadow - orchestral; If I Love Again; People (background music); Let's Hear It For Me; Me And My Shadow; Let's Hear It For Me- reprise; End Title - How Lucky Can You Get?

This is overall an okay way to spend two and a quarter hours but only Streisand fans will really reap the benefits of watching their idol deliver another stunning portrayal.