 Funny Girl 1968  G, 151 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Lee Allen, Mae Questel, Gerald Mohr, Frank Faylen, John Harmon, Mittie Lawrence, Gertrude Flynn, Penny Santon, Thordis Brandt, Bettina Brenna
Barbra Streisand's talent was discovered by the world during the run of her Broadway performance in her role as Fanny Brice. The story is about comedian Fanny Brice's turbulent marriage to Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), which coincided with her rise to fame. Fanny Brice, "I'm a bagel on a plate of onion rolls." Streisand carried away an Oscar for Best Actress.
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The Last Angry Man 1974  TV, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerrold Freedman
Cast: Pat Hingle, Lynn Carlin, Paul Jabara, Tracy Bogart, Sorrell Booke, Penny Santon, Titos Vandis, Pepe Serna, Andrew Duggan, Ann Doran
Set in Brooklyn in the 1930s, this made-for-TV remake of the 1959 film tells the story of a Jewish doctor (Pat Hingle) who has spent a lifetime helping others.
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Love with the Proper Stranger 1963 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Herschel Bernardi, Edie Adams, Tom Bosley, Harvey Lembeck, Penny Santon, Virginia Vincent, Val Avery, Richard Mulligan
A love affair BEGINS with a pregnancy following a one-night stand. Slowly, the couple (Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen) learns to communicate and fall in love. Natalie Wood received an Oscar nomination, and the film had four other nominations.
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Rhinestone 1984  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bob Clark
Cast: Dolly Parton, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson, Stephen Apostle Pec, Penny Santon, Russell Buchanan, Ritch Brinkley, Jerry Potter
Dolly Parton plays a singer who bets she can take anyone and turn him or her into a country singing star in two weeks. She runs into a New York cab driver (Sylvester Stallone), and he turns out to be more than a handful of trouble for her goal. Good duo, terrible movie.
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| 1. Funny Girl (1968)
2. The Last Angry Man (1974)
3. Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
4. Rhinestone (1984)
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