We ranked all 19 movies that Barbra Streisand has acted in, investigating her ageless and evergreen star power that still echoes across movies today
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Shutterstock, TriStar Pictures, Universal Pictures and MGM The grace, the chutzpah, the voice … the nose. A star was born on April 24, 1942, perhaps the greatest star there ever was. The star in question is Barbra Joan Streisand — and that’s pronounced Strei-sand as in “sand” — the little Jewish girl from Brooklyn who grew up to redefine what being a celebrity could mean. Before Gaga, Madonna, and Cher, there was simply Barbra.
Below, we rank all 19 movies Barbra Streisand acted in, investigating her ageless and evergreen star power that still echoes across movies today. 17. Meet the Fockers Although the Meet the Parents trilogy only featured flourishes of Barbra’s comic chops, it is arguably her most recognizable role for younger audiences. In fairness, Streisand rarely lets loose the way she does as the sex therapist Roz Focker, from fighting about saving your child’s foreskin to jumping on a table to give a deep Shiatsu massage.
14. Funny Lady Any attempt to follow up on Funny Girl is a cursed venture. Streisand felt similarly, at first threatening a lawsuit against the producer Ray Stark if she had to rehash the Fanny Brice shtick, but contractual obligations and an added emphasis on Fanny’s newfound maturity made her pull through.
It’s a tender film about abuse and trauma that allows Barbra to flex her directorial muscles, but playing a stoic psychologist suppresses her personality, and the derivative romance gets in the way of more pressing subject matters. Still, it was a smash as one of the top-grossing movies of the year and was nominated for seven Academy Awards.
9. The Mirror Has Two Faces Barbra made only two films in the ’90s, fully immersing herself in both projects as director and producer. The Mirror Has Two Faces sits cleanly in between a prestige film and a charming romantic comedy, and makes for an altogether more well-rounded movie than The Prince of Tides.
Another sex-worker role, The Owl and the Pussycat takes place over one night after Felix rats on Doris’s clients and gets her kicked out of her apartment. With nowhere else to go, she demands Felix take her in. Zaniness ensues. At one point, the pair is trying to go to sleep when Doris says she can’t sleep without the TV on. Without a TV to speak of, Felix pantomimes a news broadcast from behind a fish tank in a precious example of how far a schlub will go for a gorgeous girl like Doris.
4. The Way We Were The Way We Were is a confirmed tearjerker, even for the most stoic among us. Streisand’s Katie Morosky is a vocal communist and journalist at the height of McCarthyism who sees an old fling, Robert Redford’s early-himbo prototype Hubbell Gardiner, and is immediately taken back through the memories of the pair’s romantic and turbulent courtship.
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