{"id":119379,"date":"2023-12-09T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=119379"},"modified":"2023-12-15T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:18:23","slug":"barbra-streisand-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/barbra-streisand-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbra Streisand&#8217;s Film Career: Highlights From Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In what way does Barbra Streisand prefer her film performances to her stage performances? What insecurity did she have in relation to her first film?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps movies aren&#8217;t the first thing you think of when you consider Barbra Streisand&#8217;s long career. But, she found success in Hollywood just as she did on Broadway and in the music charts. She writes about her Hollywood acting career in her memoir <em>My Name Is Barbra<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more to learn the highlights of Barbra Streisand&#8217;s film career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-barbra-streisand-s-film-career\">Barbra Streisand&#8217;s Film Career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbra Streisand&#8217;s film career, while not what she&#8217;s most famous for, is notable. Streisand says that anything she performs onstage is gone as soon as the show ends, but movies last forever. She finds it satisfying and reassuring to know that something she made will outlast her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Creating something that will outlive you is a common way of <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2016\/12\/how-to-think-about-building-your-legacy#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20effective%20things%20we%20can%20do%20to%20buffer%20our%C2%A0anxiety%20about%20death%20is%20to%20attempt%20to%20transcend%20death%20by%20finding%20meaning%20in%20our%20lives.%20Central%20to%20this%20meaning%20is%20that%20we%20have%20impact%20that%20persists%20beyond%20our%20physical%20existence.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coping with the fear of death<\/a>. Many people take comfort in the idea that what they\u2019ve done will survive after they die and therefore that people will remember them. In a sense, they feel as if they\u2019ve outlived their deaths by doing so.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: The factual details of Streisand\u2019s career are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000659\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">readily available<\/a>. Therefore, we focus mainly on what she says about her personal experiences as a performer rather than reiterating all of the specific roles she played.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Streisand\u2019s first role in a movie was reprising the role of Fanny Brice from <em>Funny Girl<\/em>. She says that she was nervous to be on the big screen because she didn\u2019t look like other movie stars of the time, such as Marilyn Monroe, and she thought audiences would reject her because of it. However, that wasn\u2019t the case; <strong>Streisand won her first Oscar (Best Actress) for her role in <\/strong><strong><em>Funny Girl<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Though movie audiences clearly didn\u2019t reject her, Streisand\u2019s unusual look\u2014and her nose in particular\u2014have been the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/barbra-archives.com\/bjs_library\/stories\/nose_streisand.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">countless discussions and debates over the years<\/a>. Many people find her unattractive and wonder why she never got plastic surgery; many others find her extremely attractive, and some credit her with helping to redefine the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/beauty-standards-for-women\/\">standards of beauty<\/a>.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Streisand has starred in many movies, but her most commercially successful role was as Esther Hoffman in the musical drama <em>A Star Is Born<\/em>. This was also the most profitable movie for her, since her contracted pay included a percentage of the gross earnings (though she doesn\u2019t say exactly how much she made for that role).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Paying top stars a percentage of a movie\u2019s earnings is a relatively common practice known as <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2006\/01\/how-the-studios-compensate-the-most-powerful-movie-stars.html#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20practice%20known%20as%20%E2%80%98first%2Ddollar%20gross%E2%80%99%20and%20it%E2%80%99s%20standard%20fare%20for%20top%2Dtier%20talent.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first-dollar gross<\/a>\u2014so called because the actor starts earning money with the first dollar the movie makes, rather than having to wait for the studio to turn a profit on it. However, some sources say that the term is misleading and that top stars are generally paid a large sum of money upfront, then begin receiving a percentage once the movie has earned enough money to cover that initial payment. In other words, \u201ctop-dollar gross\u201d stars get a guaranteed minimum payment for their work, plus extra if the movie is successful enough.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A Star Is Born <\/em>includes the song \u201cEvergreen,\u201d which earned Streisand another Oscar (for Best Original Song). \u201cEvergreen\u201d also won three Grammy Awards: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Arrangement, and Song of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Composer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulwilliamsofficial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul Williams<\/a>, who collaborated with Streisand on the music for <em>A Star Is Born<\/em>, was somewhat bemused by how popular \u201cEvergreen\u201d became. Williams was quoted as saying that he expected the big hit from that movie to be \u201cWith One More Look at You,\u201d which he called one of Streisand\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2015\/01\/08\/story-behind-song-evergreen\/21449245\/#:~:text=To%20be%20rigorously%20honest%2C%20the%20song%20that%20I%20thought%20was%20going%20to%20come%20out%20of%20the%20picture%20was%20a%20song%20called%20%22With%20One%20More%20Look%20at%20You%2C%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">best performances ever<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what way does Barbra Streisand prefer her film performances to her stage performances? What insecurity did she have in relation to her first film? Perhaps movies aren&#8217;t the first thing you think of when you consider Barbra Streisand&#8217;s long career. But, she found success in Hollywood just as she did on Broadway and in the music charts. She writes about her Hollywood acting career in her memoir My Name Is Barbra. Read more to learn the highlights of Barbra Streisand&#8217;s film career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":119393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[586,33],"tags":[1346],"class_list":["post-119379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-people","tag-my-name-is-barbra","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Barbra Streisand&#039;s Film Career: Highlights From Hollywood - Shortform Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Barbra Streisand found success in Hollywood just as she did on Broadway and in the music charts. 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