Funny Girl (film) What infuriated me was the way they did things—never telling me, never talking to me, just cutting. I think they were afraid that if they were nice to me, Barbra would have been upset." In her book "Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture", Joyce Antler writes that Streisand has created several rich images of a Jewish woman within film, "Funny Girl" being one of them. In "Funny Girl", Antler writes, Streisand is able to portray a character that is obviously Jewish, and in this role she creates a space for the intelligent Jewish woman to be
Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) successful singer, winner of the 1963 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performance and with her 3 first solo albums charting in the Billboard Top 200. The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in June 1964. and went to win its composers the Grammy for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album, beating "Hello, Dolly!". All music written by Jule Styne; lyrics by – Bob Merrill Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) is the original Broadway cast recording of the musical "Funny Girl", loosely based