Barbra Streisand to star in and produce Gypsy for Universal Pictures
Fellowes won the Original Screenplay Academy Award for Gosford Park and most recently earned the Emmy and Golden Globe for creating and writing the acclaimed miniseries, Downton Abbey. His musical theatre work includes adapting the script for Disney's stage production of Mary Poppins.
Gypsy has exhilarated audiences on both stage and screen since its first Broadway run in 1959 with Ethel Merman. Since then, the compelling story based on the memoirs of the famous striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee, has spawned numerous reincarnations including the 1962 film starring Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood, four Broadway revivals, as well as a made-for-television movie.
A celebrated artist, Streisand has gathered Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America and Golden Globe awards, winning Oscars for both, Best Actress (Funny Girl) and Best Original Song (for her composition of "Evergreen" from her production of A Star is Born).
Gypsy marks Silver's first foray into Broadway movie musicals after a career of producing several commercially-successful films including the Lethal Weapon, The Matrix, Die Hard and Sherlock Holmes franchises.
Gypsy was released November 1st, 1962 and stars Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace, Betty Bruce, Parley Baer, Harry Shannon, Morgan Brittany. The film is directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
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