Fritzi Burr theater and in skits with the vaudeville comedy team of Smith and Dale. By the late 1950s, she was working on Broadway and appeared in ""I Can Get It for You Wholesale,"" the show in which Barbra Streisand first gained national attention. Later, Burr replaced Kaye Medford as the mother of Fanny Brice (played by Streisand) in "Funny Girl" (1968). Burr worked regularly in small theaters and dinner theaters and in touring companies of such musicals as ""Fiddler on the Roof"", in which she played, at different times, Yente and Tevye's long-suffering wife, Golde. But, moving to Hollywood, she also
Funny Girl (film) ... 100 Songs", and the line "Hello, gorgeous" at #81 in its 2005 list of "100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes". "Funny Girl" is considered one of the greatest musical films ever. In 2016, "Funny Girl" was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Set in and around New York City just prior to and following World War I, the story opens with "Ziegfeld Follies" star Fanny Brice awaiting the return of husband Nicky Arnstein from prison, and then moves into an extended flashback focusing