Saturday 15/08/15Funny Girl (1968) **** (BBC2, 1.00pm)This amiable romantic musical landed Barbra Streisand her first Academy Award as Best Actress. She essays comedienne Fanny Brice, who escapes her life as the daughter of a Jewish saloon owner in the slums of the Lower East Side of New York, to become one of the star performers at Ziegfield Follies. Success in the world of showbusiness contrasts sharply with her personal fortune: her marriage to suave Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif) falters and...
