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Released
1968 · FILM

Funny Girl

A determined young comedienne fights prejudice and personal heartbreak to become a star of the Ziegfeld Follies, while her volatile marriage to a charismatic gambler threatens to derail her rise to fame.

“People who see FUNNY GIRL are the luckiest people in the world!”

Directed by
William Wyler
Written by
Isobel Lennart
Runtime
155 min
BiographyComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Fanny Brice was a prominent comedienne of the 1930s, whose career began in the Jewish slums of New York. She rose to fame through her performances in the Ziegfeld Follies, where she became a standout performer. During this time, she was married to Nick Arnstein, a charismatic but unreliable gambler.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by William SandsShot by Harry Stradling SrScored by Jule StyneDesigned by Gene Callahan

Box Office

1968 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$58.7M

Budget$14.1M
Worldwide gross$58.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

20013 theaters
$66K($122K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

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