The Most Beautiful Bride | Funny Girl | Love Love

Fanny (Barbra Streisand) performs "The Most Beautiful Bride" but Ziegfeld (Walter Pidgeon) is not pleased with her comedic spin.

One of the most popular movie musicals ever made! FUNNY GIRL follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice, a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar® for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break at Keeney's Music Hall, her hilarious debut as a roller-skating chorus girl gets her hired as a comedienne. A year later Fanny is working for Florenz Ziegfeld in his famous Follies and brings the house down with an outrageous and unplanned number. Fanny becomes a star, falls in love and marries Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), a handsome gambler whose luck doesn't hold up. The film's many memorable songs include "Don't Rain On My Parade" and the Streisand classic "People."

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[wotan]

I was only 12 in 1968, and my parents dragged us kids to see Funny Girl. We knew Streisand from her tv specials, but didn’t want to hike downtown to see the movie. Well, we almost fell out of our chairs — how could anyone sing and dance like that, and be hysterically funny and heartbreaking at the same time. If anyone wonders why Streisand is a legend, just watch Funny Girl.

[darastarscream]

The best part's the bridesmaids all trying not to die laughing. 🤣

[markbeck]

God, the staging of this was beautiful: glamorous, silly, over the top, and still doing story-telling work. This is the kind of thing you probably only could have done in a film. I would imagine reconstructing this scene in the new modern stage musical would be sort of impossible after audiences had already seen a movie version like this.

[elizabethhook]

I was lucky to see her on Broadway, I was only 14 but I understood the implication. My parents took me to see it after much begging, and I was laughing so hard, the Irish Catholic mum sat there straight lipped.

[bonanzajoe]

Barbra Streisand was the most beautiful girl in the world. There was nothing she could do in the entertainment industry. Everything she did was perfect.

[jasminnemcdonaldA]

That was the funniest scene ever. She turned a musical number into a comedy.

[chrisn]

Her casting in this role suggests divine intervention, as does Judy Garland's in The Wizard of Oz.

[Amanda---]

My mom loved this movie. She passed away. I miss her so much. She was the most PERFECT mom. 💔😇🫶

[johannesofie]

My parents got married in 1969 (still married today) and my mother had those white flowers in her hair. Now I know where the inspiration came from

[marcackerman]

I was also only 12 in 1968 and my friends and I wanted to see Oliver, but, because of a snow storm, we had to go to a theatre closer to home, and Funny Girl was playing there so we had to "settle". I was blown away by Streisand's voice, style and overall talent. I walked out of the theatre as one of her biggest fans since. She's made it easy to be a fan all these years. She's always been an amazing talent and I always looked forward to her work.

[will]

She took a dull moment and made it true, funny, with a wink to all the ladies of the “real” situations possible for women of the time….if they let his adoration….lol…. go to far🦋❤️😜

[boobear]

Barbara Streisand is so beautiful definitely a legend 😍

[lenaefimova]

Мы были с моими родителями в кино, смотрели "Смешную девчонку".В зале был невероятный хохот, люди со стульев сползали.После фильма выходили из зала и напевали мелодию из фильма.Отличный мюзикл и фильм с великолепной Барбарой Стрейзанд.Я хотела в детстве иметь такие длинные ногти, но...я занималась по классу фортепиано и могла только мечтать об этом.
Спасибо за отрывок из фильма!Настроение прекрасное.

[magicchandelier]

She is the beautiful reflection of her life proffesion.
She is really UNIQUE and BEAUTIFUL, ELEGANT AND SO MUCH PERFECTION IN WHATEVER SHE DOES

[thomasmayk]

Enough time has passed that Ms Streisand is universally recognized as one of the world's greatest singers, perhaps the greatest of the past century. In case anybody has forgotten or never knew, she is also one hilarious comedienne as this scene from Funny Girl attests.

[gatsbyproctor]

This film made me fall in love with Barbara voice and acting ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[marcusjames]

Her birthday is coming, April 24th. 81gorgeous years.
Probably the biggest star still alive today.
When I was 4 years old my mom was playing the radio and someone was singing "It Had To Be You". Even though I was that young, I said to myself, "That's Barbra Streisand." And I was right.

[undertasty]

I feel like I'm part of the last generations who get why this is so funny... And that is not a bad thing!
When I was was growing up, I was gettiing kinda mixed messages on what was "right" and "proper" and such, since my own parents didn't seem to know where they stood either. And for good reason. Lets just say, they got a very traditional upbringing but came out of the closet later in life.
Anyways, this idea that a pregnant bride is a hilarious concept, since brides are "supposed" to be virgins or whatever, is hopefully fading into the pages of history.

But Miss Streisand is legend, and let her be praised to the end of time.

[natiabaia]

She is SO BEAUTIFUL..Yes She looks so much fanciful and funny too...LOVE HER....❤❤❤

[karenbrauneis]

Best scene ever! I’ve always loved this movie. I first saw Funny Girl when I was very young, and I’ve been a Barbara Streisand fan ever since.✨💖✨