Barbra Streisand 'Funny Lady' Deleted Scenes

[alkabayoest]

i love her eyes

[mzmiller52]

hard to listen to this after bette midler / barry manilow definitive performance on "the divine miss m"

[nenelikefunnyvideo]

I like this ending more!! poor Fran!!! I want Nicky too darling!!

[mnorth1964]

This is criminal that it's been neglected all this time. What a treasure. I even like this ending better. I hate the older Fanny and Billy in the released version. What a find!

[PatriciaSmear]

Sony Home Entertainment, once Columbia Home Entertainment never treated either film "Funny Girl" or "...Lady" with the respect it deserved with any kind of wonderful special edition and even If they had I can guarantee the discs would wind up disappointing every fan. This can be said with all of the major studios really, except maybe Warner that sometimes may surprise us with a nice set of features like with Judy Garland's "Star is Born".

[kelcikyle]

They should have left the bit about Fran not wanting fanny to marry billy. I absolutely loved Barbra in this movie!

[vhsstillok]

what fun to see...thank goodness the director rethought the end of the film. Not only did that ended leave the film with a hopelessly sad feeling but it left the film open for a third installment "Funny Grandma".

Was this video "filmed" at the American Museum of the Moving Image?

[LoveeMandy]

Where did you get this???

[edwardjames50]

@LoveeMandy ~ That's what I want to know!

[MrChubfun]

Streisand had lost her interpretive by the end of the 60's?????

Are You crazy?????

[maryrose707]

I agree with TerryT, they shoulda be included. :P Meanwhile, where'd you get these?

[mzmiller52]

she should leave "am i blue" alone. bette midler did

the definitive version on her first album. streisand had

lost her interpretive talent by the end of the 60's. ( midler

stopped feeling her songs at the end of the 70's). really

a shame they abandoned what made them sensations.

[waynebrasler]

Streisand's instinct for any song always strikes me. She has an innate feel for melody, lyrics, the time the song was composed and written, and creative possibilities for tempos, speeding up passages, slowing down passages, and alternating but never violating the melody (most brilliantly, in my humble opinion, in "Where or When" in "Color Me Barbra"). Also, and this is what always separated her from her many imitators, she never shows off.

[westendbaby]

:'(

[rivieracar1992]

Was this an alternate ending? Wow that would've been really sad. Glad they added the older years.

[Bobbyg49]

Great scenes, but the lighting is horrible.

[edwardjames50]

@Bobbyg49 ~ It's not the lighting of the legendary cameraman James Wong Howe; it's the quality of the clips. The poster apologiozed for the poor quality!

[gottamatch]

Wow, this is the song Lauren Bacall and Hoagy Carmichael sing in "To Have and Have Not"! Awesome to hear by Barbra, thank you thank you thank you!! Gorgeously sung as a slower balad.

[TerryT1976]

These scenes should have been included on the DVD. Lots of great footage long neglected. Thanks for posting.

[edwardjames50]

@TerryT1976 ~ I agree! Isn't that one of the advantages of DVD?

[TerryT1976]

@edwardjames50 Amen to that! That goes for FUNNY GIRL, too!

[edwardjames50]

@TerryT1976 ~ I have a lot of stills from "Funny Lady," and some of them are from Barbra's scene with young Frances, the day of the Billy Rose wedding. When I saw those photos, I put two and two together regarding the content of the scene. That is some of the best acting Barbra has done, EVER, and why the hell was it cut? They could have left it in, and trimmed the superfluous water ballet sequence, which is just a reworking of the "Roller Skate Rag," in the water.

[TerryT1976]

@edwardjames50 I remember that scene with the line, "I fell in like with him". Yes, that scene should have been intact. The Honey Lamb number looked like fun and it's sad that there's no complete footage of that number.