Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.
Director: Herbert Ross
Stars: Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, Ben Vereen.
Howard Jeffrey ... associate choreographer
Marion Kane ... aquatic sequence: Oak Park Marionettes supervisor
Herbert Ross ... musical numbers staged by
Betty Walberg ... dance arranger
Lester Wilson ... assistant choreographer (uncredited)
19 songs in the Soundtracks. Several good songs. The dvd is nice: it has a special feature of direct access to songs. Unfortunately, no play-all function.
I like the film. Not so much as Funny Girl ('68, rated 8), but it's good.
We get an aquacade, complete with a section where BS injects herself comedically, (in the story) without planning. But they had a comic's bathing suit and giant water wings handy.
We also get a big stage number with a lot of Katharine Dunham-style dancers. Amazing, it's '75, 7 years after the civil rights bill, and the black dancers are not listed in IMDb, but the synchronized swimmers are. <head shaking no, no, no>
We get a big travel montage with a song, imitating Don't Rain on My Parade from '68, but neither the song nor the sense of urgency were as great.
I just can't recommend it, so not a 7.
Columbia & more, dir. Ross; 6+
