Ziegfeld Follies Follies" with Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, William Powell, Gene Kelly, Fanny Brice, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse, Lucille Ball, Kathryn Grayson, and others performing songs and sketches similar to those from the original Follies. Brice appeared in the Follies for more than ten years. The 1964 musical, "Funny Girl", starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, depicts Brice's success with the Follies. The 1968 Columbia film of the musical also starred Barbra Streisand as Brice and Walter Pidgeon as Florenz Ziegfeld. The 1912 version of the Ziegfeld Follies included a song entitled "Row, Row, Row", which has been
Funny Girl (novel) of flatness in the writing. Funny Girl (novel) Funny Girl is a 2014 novel by the British writer Nick Hornby. The novel is about Barbara Parker, Miss Blackpool of 1964, who decides to forego ideas of becoming a beauty queen. She heads for London, determined to make her mark as a television comedian, inspired by her idol Lucille Ball. After finding a job on a cosmetics counter in a London department store, she meets a theatrical agent, Brian Debenham, who finds her an audition for a television sitcom pilot based around the domestic life of a newlywed couple. Taking the