Here are the films of Barbra
along
with a
summary of each.
1968-Funny Girl, This
film follows the early
career
of stage comedienne Fanny Brice. As the
film
opens,
only her mother believes Fanny can make
it in
show
business. When she gets her first break
at
Kenney's
Music Hall, her hilarious debut as a
rollerskating
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, a
handsome gambler whose luck doesn't hold
up.
1969-Hello,Dolly!, The famed
plot
concerns
Dolly, a
young widow and professional matchmaker
who
sets her
sights, and whatever she can muster, on
conquering
tigt-fisted Yonkers merchant, Horace
Vandergeider.
1970-On A Clear Day You Can See
Forever,
Chain-smoking kooky Daisy consults
psychiatrist
Chabot to help her stop smoking.Chabot
is
astonished
to learn she has amazing ESP powers, and
that
under
hypnosis she reveals her former life as
Melinda, an
1840 English coquette. The romantic
complications of
the triangle become involved as Chabot
falls
in love
with the elusive Melinda and Daisy falls
in
love with
Chabot. All ends well when Daisy informs
Chabot they
will meet again in 2038.
1970-The Owl and the Pussycat,
Meek,
owlish
Felix and
strident Doris live in the same
apartment
building.
His incessant typing bothers her;her
gentlemen
callers bother him. Felix informs the
landlord of her
activities. So, Doris moves in on Felix.
When
they
both get thrown out, they move in with
Barney...until
they drive him out! That's when Felix
and
Doris
finally decide to put the theory into
practice. But
do opposites attract?
1972-Up The Sandbox, Her mother
wants her to
move to
New Jersey, where there's more space and
folks don't
write less-than-tasteful messages in the
elevator.
Her husband is wrapped up in his work.
Her
children
are great, but they're not
intellectually
fulfilling.
No wonder Margaret Reynolds unravels
when she
learns
she's pregnant again. A complete modern
woman's
identity crisis is hatching-complete
with a
fanasty
life she can't control.
1972-What's Up Doc?, Judy
Maxwell is
bright
but
strange. When she sets her cap for
Howard
Bannister,
a befuddled Iowa musicologist, a Mack
truck
couldn't
block her path. They happen to have
identical
red
plaid traveling cases.(Howard's holds
rocks;Judy's
contains lingerie.) Two felllow hotel
guests
have
similar luggage:a rich matron's case
carries
a
fortune in jewels and a suspicious
fellow's
bag hides
top-secret goverment documents. They are
bound to get
mixed up, and result is chaos of the
highest
and most
hilarious order.
1973-The Way We Were, Barbra
Streisand and
Robert
Redford are united for te first time in
one
of the
most memorable romances in screen
history.
It's the
story of the attraction of opposites,
the
love that
binds tem together and the differences
that
tear them
apart. The story begins on a college
campus
in 1937
where Hubbell Dardiner is the popular
campus
star
athlete while Katie Morosky is the
abrasive
defender
of radical causes. It is only by chance
eight
years
later they meet in a bar and fall in
love.
Their
marriage is strained by their inevitable
conflicts
and reaches a painful end when Hubbell,
now a
screenwriter in Hollywood, is threatened
by
McCarthy's communist hunters and takes
the
easy way
out, while Katie is determined to fight
them.
1974-For Pete's Sake, When
Henry and
her
husband Pete
get a hot tip on the stock market, they
try
to get a
loan of $3,000 they need to invest.
Henry
comes up
with the cash-which she tells Pete she
borrowed from
a rich Uncle- but their investment
doesn't
pay off,
Henry finds herself in a wacky mess as
she
gets
bounced from one loan shark to another,
falling
deeper in debt as she goes.
1974-Funny Lady, This lively,
lavish
musical
opens a
new chapter in Fanny's career and love
life.
Now
divorced from wealthy Nick Arnstein, she
teams up
with songwriter Billy Rose, a brash and
unkempt
showman who is bursting with enthusiasm
and
theatrical ambitions. They make an
unusual
couple-te
polished performer and the upstart
producer-but a
friendship blossoms into love.
1976-A Star Is Born,
Information unaviable
at this momment.
1979-The Main
Event, Can a perfume magnate
find
happiness managing the long-shot career
of a
retired
prize-fighter who stinks? that's the
question
this
screwball comedy answers, and screwball
is
defintely
the word to describe The Main Event.
Hillary
Kramer,
a successful fragrance entrepreneur
whose
business
manager has just split with most of her
assests. One
he overlooked-or purposely ignored-was
the
contract
of handsome ex-fighter Eddie "Kid
Natural"
Scanlon,
who has on intention of going back into
the
ring. But
Hillary has no intention of starving, so
the
kid puts
on the gloves-and gets knocked out.
1981-All Night Long,
This film is out of print and the
information
is
unaviable right now.
1983-Yentl, In a time when the
world
of
study
belonged only to men, there lived a girl
called
Yentl...So begins this beautifully
realized
fable of
love and scarifice that not only stars,
but
is
produced, directed and co-written by
Barbra
Streisand
(first woman to do so). The setting is
eastern
Europe,circa 1904. Yentl, a smart,
spritied,
independent young woman, is forced to
masquerade as a
boy in order to pursue her thirst for
knowledge-and
discovers yet another kind of love.
1987-Nuts, The pending case:
The
People of
the
State of New York vs. Claudia Draper.
The
issue: Is
Claudia mentally competent to stand
trial?
Sure,she's
shocking, outspoken, explosive, defiant.
But
is she
nuts? Claudia holds nothing back as she
takes
on the
judical system, modern psychiarty,
personal
demons
and anyone in her way. In Nuts there are
few,
if any,
innocent bystanders. This day in court
is one
you'll
never forget.
1991-The Prince of Tides, Tom
Wingo,
a
disillusioned
Southern coach who must reveal his
tortured
childhood
in order to help his troubled sister.
Susan
Lowenstein, the determined psyciatrist
who
battles
Tom's resentment and rage in search of
the
truth. The
Prince of Tides is a rich human story
about
love
between men and women, parents and
children,
brothers
and sisters and, ultimately the love of
oneself. The
filmexplores that love and its healing
powers
to
accept,forgive transform and liberate us
from
the
pains and the scars of the past.
1996-The Miror Has Two Faces,
Rose
Morgan,
who still lives with her mother, is a
professor of Romantic Literature who
despartely longs
for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin,
a
mathematics professor, has been burned
by
passionate
relationships and longs for a sexless
union
based on
friendship and respect. They're two
people
with
almost nothing in common, but Fate-in
the
form of a
personal ad and a meddling sister-brings
them
together.
Now as far as I know all of
these
movies are
able to
rent or purchase,except All Night Long.
(you might find a copy at www.ebay.com)
