Musical biopic of 1920s singer and comedienne Fanny Brice, who rose from poor beginnings in New York's slums to become an overnight star and the toast of Broadway. Her success, however, came at the price of a turbulent private life and an unhappy marriage to a gambler, who grew increasingly jealous of her fame. Starring an Oscar-winning Barbra Streisand, with Omar Sharif, Kay Medford and Walter Pidgeon.

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.