Rome, Barbra Streisand's films in an exhibition at the Casa del Cinema

TheTeatroantico Association presents at the Casa del Cinema in Rome, from April 20 to May 14, 2022, the Barbra Streisand Movies exhibition to celebrate 80 years of a unique artist. She is the first woman in the world to have received numerous prestigious awards during her career: two Oscars, six Emmy Awards, eleven Golden Globes, ten Grammy Awards, a Tony Award, two David di Donatello awards, and thirty albums that went platinum in the U.S.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, the young Barbra Streisand lost her father after little more than a year of life. The tragedy marked her so deeply that she did not accept the presence of her stepfather, with whom she would always have a difficult relationship. Her debut in the world of music took place in a Manhattan bar in 1960, where she immediately achieved incredible success. Thus began the first steps that would lead her to become an international music legend: in 1962 she came out with her first record The Barbra Streisand Album, thanks to which she won two Grammy Awards. While her songs soared on the international charts, the Broadway stage also brought her to prominence: starring in the musical Funny Girl, based on the life of comic actress Fanny Brice, she won the favor of the most uncompromising critics. In the second half of the 1960s she also won an Emmy Award in The Judy Garland Show on CBS thanks to duets with the American actress and singer.

In the same period she made her debut in the film version of the musical Funny Girl (1968), for which she won an Oscar for best actress (shared Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?). Dramatic films, musicals, and comedies followed (notable collaborations with Herbert Ross in The Owl and the Kitten and Gene Kelly ’s monumental Hello, Dolly opposite Walter Matthau). After an intense performance in But Daddy Sends You Alone? (1972) by Peter Bogdanovich opposite Ryan O’Neal, she starred opposite Robert Redford in Sydney Pollack ’s Come eravamo (1973) and was anointed by the box office as the most commercially successful actress of the 1970s.

In 1976 she won her second Academy Award for Best Song of the Year Evergreen in the film A Star Is Born (1976) and then went behind the camera with Yentl (1983), a film with autobiographical implications about a Jewish woman forced to disguise herself as a man in order to gain access to a school of religious studies.

With The Broadway Album he returned to his roots and stayed on the top chart for three weeks. He produced, directed and starred in The Prince of Tides (1993), for which he received several Oscar nominations. In 1996, after receiving a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement and the album Higher Ground, she signed on to direct Love Has Two Faces, making her debut as a playwright.

Hilarious are her latest film performances both as Ben Stiller’s whimsical mother, Rosalind “Roz” Focker in the blockbuster comedies Introducing Yourself? and Meet the Fockers (2010) and as an obsessive mother in Anne Fletcher’s comedy Childbirth with Mother.

The exhibition is curated by Giulio D’Ascenzo and Elisabetta Centore.

For all information, you can visit the official website of the Casa del Cinema.

Rome, Barbra Streisand's films in an exhibition at the Casa del Cinema

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