Ray Stark; Hollywood Producer Who Worked with Stars Such As Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford
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Film producer Ray Stark built his career on the success of Funny Girl and its debutant star, Barbra Streisand, but he was in his seventies and had experienced a run of flops when David Puttnam took over Columbia Pictures in 1986. He told Stark that future backing would depend on each project's individual merits.
That might seem good business sense, but Stark's success had been built on personal contacts, special relationships and loyalty. After all, his breakthrough hit, Funny Girl, had been based on the life of Broadway star, Fanny Brice, who just happened to be his mother-in- law.See the full content of this document
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Ray Stark; Hollywood Producer Who Worked with Stars Such As Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford
In his Puttnam biography, Enigma, Andrew Yule entitled one chapter "Stark Reality" and accused his subject of ignoring the Hollywood maxim, "If you cross Ray Stark, you'd better make sure he's dead first." A...
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