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Funny Girl
FRANCE · 1968

Funny Girl

William Wyler
show business rags to riches Jewish American experience romantic relationships 1930s New York
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Synopsis

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.

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