Barbra Streisand - "Funny Girl" alternate "Swan Lake" sequence with addtl. footage (1968)
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- This is an alternate edit of the "Swan Lake" sequence from "Funny Girl" with additional footage and even alternate deleted footage. The audio mix (the original soundtrack and passages from the Tchaikovsky ballet) is not mine. I did try to clean the audio though. I also used original footage from the movie in high quality. This will give you an idea of how the sequence was planned but never released. Barbra sings additional lyrics in portions of the scene but that audio is not available.
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First time I've seen this entire scene! I didn't know Barbra could also dance? Her talents are unsurpassed ❤😊
That final *squawk* before she keels over at the end still cracks me up to this day! LOL! Great additions, Gustavo! I've seen the deleted footage before, but this is the best quality yet!
Thanks again!
So hilarious, the physical comedy parts are pure gold,
It’s great to see the fabulous Tommy Rall as the Prince. A major dancer of the late 40’s and early 50’s and a part of the MGM factory of musicals (Kiss Me Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, etc.) here he has shares quite a bit of screen time with Streisand but mostly from a distance or shot facing away from the camera. The role doesn’t require a lot from him but he is so graceful even as a comic foil to the star. Still an immensely gifted performer. I wish his career had been longer and more satisfactory, but I’m always thrilled to see him.
I agree Tommy Rall was both a great dancer and a great tenor. He could dance clássic and popular dances and he could sing opera and musicals He was in many Hollywood movies but he also danced clássical ballet at the American Ballet and sang operas on stage at the New York City Opera and other theatres
.His performance in the Jerry Herman musical Milk and Honey when he sang I will follow you showed that he was a tenor as good as Mario Lanza and we know watching his movies that he was as athletic and talented as Gene Kelly Rall could be the tenor and the dancer and it would have been excellent in The Student Prince and in Kismet with Ann Blyth instead of Edmund Purdum and Vic Damone and also in.other studios as Cable in South Pacific and Joe in Damn Yankees instead of the dubbed John Kerr and Tab Hunter But except his performance in Kiss Me Kate when he was amazing singing and dancing with Ann Miller Tommy Rall didnt have good roles in his Hollywood movies always playing suporting roles more dancing than singing
A pity because he was an excellent dancer and a very good tenor but MGM didnt know how to use his talents in the movies right.
Thank you having pointed out that he's Tommy Rall, I didn't know! He was an immense dancer, unfortunately there's only a few movies where his talent has been preserved, as far as I know. But only his performance in Kiss me, Kate is so amazing.
Are you Brian O’Brien from the musical Chicago? If so, you’re a very fine dancer yourself!
One of my favorite scenes with Tommy Rall was the challenge dance with Bob Fosse in My Sister Eileen. czcams.com/video/XE0AvrTjDD0/video.html
Actually, he was considered superior to both Kelly and Astaire because he was also an acrobat.
I don't know who you are that you have access to this footage, but Thank YOU for sharing it with us!!! Happy Birthday, Barbra. Such a nice treat for us on her special day.
There was also another version I saw where they interspersed images of Nick playing cards over the ballet sequence. I don't really know how many saw that version. I saw both.
Yes, have seen that version as well, a looooong time ago.
I saw that version at the Regency Theatre in New York in 1981; I was familiar with the film, so it was odd to see an alternate version.
I saw that version when the film was released in 1968. I much prefer the final version.
Happy birthday adorable Lady Barbra, fans are invited to organize a nice open air cinema show enjoying one of her great movies indeed, getting together for a nice cheerful cure to forget any other struggle of life for a cup of hours, this cute moment might help a lot indeed
You are wonderful for sharing all of this with us!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!
This is phenomenal. Thank you for sharing.
Saw this many many years ago, but this definitely is the best I’ve seen this footage. The alternate takes are amazing as well. Can understand this sequence was cut for the theatrical movie, a bit too long, but why oh why is it not on the latest blu-ray release, as part of the extras? Maybe on the upcoming 4K edition? (No, haven’t heard anything, just wishful thinking on my part.)
Thanks for sharing, Gustavo: as always, great job!
Very interesting. It's amazing that they ever thought the comedy could be sustained over as long as 6 and a half minutes. The edited version in much, much better.
Very well said - isn't it amazing how important editing is?
Well maybe for normal people but for a ballet dancer, it’s hysterical and not long enough!!?
Agree. Good editing. Way too long otherwise and the alternative ending just isn’t funny.
Even better would have been to drop it entirely and put back a number from the original score.
@@jochenstossberg5427 So many good numbers removed from the original show''"Coronet Man", "Music That Makes Me Dance", etc. The film version is SO different from the play, and not better (it never was one of the Great Musicals-- it just had Streisand.)
I'd heard long ago there may be a DVD but did not know they went so far as to make a promo. I appreciate your beautiful restoration.
You always have the most wonderfully interesting things to share!!
Quel magnifique travail à chaque fois pour nous offrir ces pépites. Merci beaucoup.
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This made my day. Thank you SO much for all you upload. X
In her memoirs, she hinted that she might add this scene to a future DVD release. She added a few cut scenes to a new release of The Way We Were and, although she thought highly of Sidney Pollack, and revered William Wyler, she said that those scenes were only cut for time, not because they weren’t important.
Just love this, thanks so much!
I have never seen this before-- the extended stuff had me laughing out loud....thank you so much for sharing.
I’ve never seen this much it’s just so good thanks so much,
The shame if it all is that they cut some of her best broadway songs for the film. “Cornet man”, “ private Schwartz”, “who are you now” and most importantly, “the music that makes me dance”. The obc recording of “music” is Streisand’s best performance ever.
Happy Birthday Barbra!
Wow thank you ...i knew there was footage edited out. Interesting..
They should have kept the middle part, so much more funny! They should have edited the beginning because the duet parts are hysterical.
As a kid I remember thinking… this isn’t funny when I first watched it. I laughed in the original when she pushed her way through the core and then in an instant/same time, appears at the tip of the V & is dancing in perfect unison with the core.
It was very smart shooting, not showing her feet… very smart, Barbra doesn’t seem to have a good sense of her body, never took dance class, why should she? The lead/star, but like Whitney through out their careers every time they move their body’s to the beat, it’s like, YIKES! But the über-unearthly talent supersedes any flaw.
Especially from 1965-1979, truly flawless… perfection!
I've loved Barbra Streisand ever since I was 12 and she is magnificent in this movie..........her male partner is the brilliant Tommy Rall of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers and Kiss Me Kate fame whose dancing talent Bob Fosse was most scared.
Genial, Gustavo! Esas imágenes son increíbles... Muchísimas gracias por hacer el "upload" de esas escenas adicionales de Funny Girl. Yo sé que hay numerosas escenas borradas de la película, pero nunca encontré nada en CZcams antes - en realidad, había leído en algun parte que se perdió todas las secuencias adicionales de Funny Girl... Por tal razón, te pregunto: por qué no incluyeron todas esas escenas adicionales, en una versión remasterizada, en los lanzamientos "home video" (Bluray, DVD, etc)?
Hello-
being a big fan of the film it was nice seeing the full sequence as shot but after thinking about it one can see why
they cut it down for the theatrical release print.
Thank you for this! Does any footage exist of "Who Taught Her Everything She Knows?" with Kay Medford and Lee Allen?
There is footage which reveals just how badly this song was staged and filmed. William Wyler? All your fault.
@@jochenstossberg5427 Herbert Ross staged all the musical numbers. Wyler did the dialogue scenes.
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Its Tommy Rall who danced this ballet with Barbra and his name isnt in.the cast Remember that he was a great Hollwoid and Broadway great dancer and tenor.
This is so Fanny Brice.
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Why was Tommy Rall uncredited?
I dont know her was a great dancer and tenor qho deserved to be more recognized
A very well-deserved scar for Barbra!!!
Wher do you find these amazing clips? Thank you for sharing! 🙏🏼
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Cinephiles often lament cut sequences and “lost” footage, but I find that directors and editors more often get it right, and the movie is better for their cuts. Think of the “Wizard of Oz” and the much shortened scarecrow number and deleted “Jitterbug” number, or “King Kong” and the cut spider pit sequence. Very often, less more.
True. The Happy Endings farrago from New York, New York, was painfully bad.
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Actually, even though she is doing it for laughs her ballet is ok. Makes me wonder how good she might have been if she had danced seriously.
In one of the Streisand books there's a quote from Carol Haney - the Funny Girl Choreographer for Broadway - saying Barbra had all the makings of a very good dancer. But she danced very little after Dolly.... I dont think it was something she particularly enjoyed.
What the hell kept happening to the film quality?
The alternate version has some sexual innuendo.
Simply not funny.
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I tend to agree. The number looks great, and she looks great in it, and it has some amusing visual images, but you're right - it's never LOL funny. I still think "Rat Tat Tat Tat" should have been retained for the film; it was rousing, it was period specific, and Private Schwartz marching with the flag (at the conclusion) always got a laugh.
@@pec2pec agree. i dont think it was supposed to be lol funny. comedy back then was different from the comedy we have now too
@@mariabarrientos7690 Trust me Mario it was meant to be hilarious. The even bigger problem is that Fanny Brice would never have been in anything like this, and even when this film was made, her style of comedy was seriously dated. Try to watch her today. Painful.
@@jochenstossberg5427 That's my point, comedy has changed, it's not painful to watch at all though, and it was only a few years before she died.
Painfully unfunny. And interminable. As one top critic at the time said, 'The entire Swan lake sequence should go - now.' He was right. It's embarrassingly bad. And Fanny Brice would never have been in a number like this, ever. It's like a really bad act from a drag revue in Las Vegas. Great to see the great Tommy Rall though, even in this fiasco.
Comedy has changed though.
Streisand is a good actress and singer but she's not the best dancer. I think they should have gotten a ballerina with better skills.
if they hired another dancer for this scene then whats the point of having this scene at all
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