A disconcerting mimic, her voice frequently switched from English county to Mae West or to the strange cockney used by Maggie Smith in Hot Millions. Her expressive hands stabbed the air as she spoke. That by doing just a character in a play, a woman in a given situation and exploring that with my personal background, this would be contributing to her life and spirit, rather than a conscious effort.
There are really no surprises. Nobody can tell ya. He was smart enough to leave me alone. That was marvellous. I know what I have to do but I know that someone has to be there to edit or to guide.
But I do see things. My instinct, like with music, tells me the rhythm is wrong. Even before he saw Funny Girl. I guess he must have liked my work or something.
They only heard about me. There were all these ridiculous stories and people tend to believe them, as I believe the things that I read. It shows.
I never assume anything. To me these things are only titles. And I hope I never do. Because it will affect my work. I know when my work is good or bad.
It was all right, it had a couple of nice moments, I thought. People who know me know me as a very practical, down-to-earth person. Any big temperaments are beyond me. I never work at my craft.
Barbra Streisand vetoed his casting, because, while she respected his talent, she disliked him personally. Barbra Streisand 's first line in this movie is "Hello, gorgeous". When Streisand won her Oscar for this film at The 41st Annual Academy Awards , she repeated the line to her statuette. The original number, "Rat-a-Tat-Tat", was deemed too dated though appropriate for the setting of the show.
Fanny Brice did a similar act dressed in a similar costume complete with a huntsman carrying a bow and arrow in the movie Be Yourself! When she found out she was nominated, she, as any nominated member would, voted for herself. Despite being pressured to fire Sharif, William Wyler refused to do so. The movie's line "Hello, gorgeous" was voted as the 81 movie quote by the American Film Institute out of in William Wyler 's first musical. William Wyler was hired to replace Sidney Lumet as director.
Lumet left the picture over differences with producer Ray Stark and Barbra Streisand. Wyler originally declined the offer, because he was deaf in one ear and said he couldn't do a musical, but reconsidered after meeting Streisand.
Anne Francis ' role was considerably shortened. She blamed Barbra Streisand for this. Feature debut of Barbra Streisand. Screenwriter Isobel Lennart famously described working with Barbra Streisand as "a deflating, ego-crushing experience. According to some reports, Barbra Streisand was constantly late to the set, would ask to reshoot scenes that were already done, and would try to control every aspect of the production, from the lighting design to what sort of shot was needed to who did her hair.
In , when the project was being initially developed as a musical play, Anne Bancroft was the producers' choice to star, but she withdrew because her desire to tell the story in an impressionistic vein was at odds with the production team's more straightforward approach to the material. And yet the performance itself is at once a soulful continuation of the path laid by Brice and a slyly radical distinguishing act on the part of Streisand.
In Funny Girl , Streisand is handed many stock personalities that were all at one point attached to Brice, among them the ugly duckling, outsized jester, and lovelorn wife. But Streisand never does. She transforms Fanny from a slouching wallflower of girlish uncertainty to a focused figure of womanly self-possession. In this way, we get the sense that Streisand is finding the character in real time, operating from a place of impulsivity rather than dull idolatry. But sometimes Wyler, who continually shot down claims that the famously perfectionist Streisand ran the show on Funny Girl , just gets in her way.
It separates us right at the moment we long to take in her every quaking gesture. And yet, Streisand always comes out on top, carrying the movie in a way that few stars have ever managed to do. In Funny Girl , Barbra is the main attraction. Everything and everyone else is just background. It put at the forefront a confident, captivating, and not unimportantly Jewish woman who was no shrill nag or loud neurotic.
Streisand's Fanny may be a shameless self-promoter and a maker of dubious personal decisions, but she's also a galvanizing talent, a shrewd businesswoman, and a wholehearted romantic who is desired and desires, without ever becoming anything like a mere love object.
Streisand would soon become blonder and tanner, but she would more or less maintain her idiosyncratic aura over the course of just 19 feature films, nine of them made in the s, including one weepie for the ages The Way We Were and a high-profile, self-initiated remake that scaled the heights of her own hero worship A Star is Born.
And, like the most self-assured of stars, she always kept up appearances. Playbill followers share their dream cast for the upcoming film adaptation of the acclaimed musical.
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