Streisand: Her Life (35 page)
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Authors: James Spada
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Barbra’s father, Emanuel Streisand, at twenty-two, 1929. His death at thirty-five, when his daughter was only fifteen months old, left her with a pervasive feeling of loss.
(Author’s collection)
Barbara graduated from P.S. 89 in Brooklyn in June 1955. She was already determined to be an actress
(Author’s Collection)
The Philip Arms on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, where Barbara Joan Streisand lived with her mother, brother, and grandparents after her father died.
(Laura Van Wormer)
Barbara rehearses with Herb Evans for the Way off-Broadway production
of
Driftwood,
December 1958.
(Charles Biainy-Rivera)
Appearing as the office vamp in a summer stock production of
The Desk Set
in 1957, when she was fifteen, Barbara dances with Paul Bressoud. A critic called her “a fine young comedienne.”
(Courtesy Emily Cobb)
January 1959: Barbara graduated from Erasmus Hall High School half a year early, and with a 91 average. She shocked her classmates by dating a black boy.
(Courtesy Kevin Burns)
The first newspaper article about Barbra Streisand (she had Just removed an
“
a” from her first name) appeared in
Flatbush Life,
August 21, 1960.
(Author’s Collection)
Another summer stock performance: as Hortense in
The Boy Friend,
1960. She took a break from nightclub singing to appear in the show.
(Author’s Collection)