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.
Acting
Streisand's Oscar-winning debut is absolute lightning.
Score
Jule Styne's songs hit everywhere it hurts.
Costume
Bob Mackie's Follies gowns are pure spectacle.
Director
William Wyler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Streisand and director William Wyler famously clashed; she allegedly told him, 'You just take care of the camera, I'll take care of the acting.' She was right.
The film sidesteps Brice's actual messy divorce and Arnstein's imprisonment, sanitizing Jewish-American assimilation anxieties for mainstream 1960s audiences.
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