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For Barbra Streisand on Her Birthday: LIFE’s Photos of Her Broadway Debut

As the Academy Award-winning actor and singer Barbra Streisand turns 75 on Monday, she can boast of having more platinum-selling albums than any woman ever. In the above photos, she’s a 19-year-old making her Broadway debut in a lesser-known Harold Rome musical about the garment business, I Can Get It for You Wholesale. As LIFE magazine reviewed her performance in the May 18, 1962, issue: “Barbra has a lovely face that goes well with Cry Me a River and other sad ballads that she sings in nightclubs.

 

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