{"id":29652,"date":"2026-05-20T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunthow.com\/?p=29652"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:07:06","slug":"the-best-barbra-streisand-screen-performances-youve-probably-never-seen-in-honor-of-her-honorary-palme-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunthow.com\/?p=29652","title":{"rendered":"The Best Barbra Streisand Screen Performances You\u2019ve (Probably) Never Seen, in Honor of Her Honorary Palme d\u2019Or"},"content":{"rendered":"


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All Night Long<\/em> (1981), dir. Jean-Claude Tramont<\/h2>\n
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Streisand writes in her memoir that she agreed to do All Night Long<\/em> reluctantly: she had \u201cno particular urge to play a ditzy blond suburban housewife.\u201d But she also realized that she had never played anyone like Cheryl Gibbons before. Cheryl is a browbeaten wife with two ambitions: to hook a married, midlife-crisis-stricken man played by Gene Hackman, and to make it as a singer-songwriter, unaware that she\u2019s short on talent. In one achingly funny scene, Cheryl plays her piano while bloodlessly singing one of her hokey country compositions.<\/p>\n

Okay, that makes this movie sound like broad comedy\u2014and Streisand does deliver her lines in a slightly breathy Marilyn Monroe voice\u2014but the performance is exquisitely underplayed. Streisand completely disappears into the role of Cheryl, and not just because she spends much of the film in what looks like a late-period Debbie Reynolds wig and wearing things like a lilac jumpsuit with matching eye shadow.<\/p>\n

The Guilt Trip<\/em> (2012), dir. Anne Fletcher<\/h2>\n
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\u201cThere was a director, Anne Fletcher, who had been pursuing me for a year to play a Jewish mother,\u201d Streisand writes in My Name Is Barbra<\/em>. \u201cAnd she wouldn\u2019t take no for an answer\u2026Plus it was a leading role, which I hadn\u2019t done for a long time.\u201d In The Guilt Trip<\/em>, Streisand is New Jersey widow Joyce Brewster, who drives cross-country with her son, played by Seth Rogen, who for all intents and purposes is Streisand\u2019s straight man. Streisand had done dithery chatterboxes before, but Joyce is prying, oversharing, and a little provincial; a collector of frog gewgaws who becomes besotted with Las Vegas slot machines. The movie didn\u2019t set the box office on fire, but Streisand\u2019s chemistry with Rogen should have: they\u2019re hilarious together, especially when she\u2019s being a pain in his tuchus.<\/p>\n

As of this writing, The Guilt Trip<\/em> is the last movie Streisand has made. In 2023, when Howard Stern asked her<\/a> if she would be doing more films, she said that while she wanted to direct again, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t star in another movie. Too much of a pain in the ass, you know? To get your hair done, your makeup\u2026\u201d In her memoir, however, Streisand is wistful about her screen career: \u201cI haven\u2019t been in that many movies\u2026only nineteen\u2026while other actresses who came up at the same time have done fifty or more\u2026Looking back, I feel as if I didn\u2019t fulfill my potential.\u201d Now there\u2019s a Palme d\u2019Or that says otherwise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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