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APRIL 24, 1942
Barbara Joan Streisand is born in Brooklyn, New York, the second child of Emanuel Streisand and his
wife Diana Rosen Streisand. Barbara's brother, Sheldon, was born seven years earlier in 1935.
Diana was born in 1907, the daughter of a cantor (who also worked in the garment district) and a
housewife. Emanuel Streisand was also born in 1907. At the time of Barbara's birth, Emanuel Streisand
was the assistant superintendent of schools at the Elmira Reformatory with a Ph.D. in Education from
Columbia University.

SUMMER 1972
Ray Stark puts together the team for Streisand's next project, written for Barbra by Arthur Laurents,
called "The Way We Were." Sydney Pollack is chosen to direct, and he and Streisand both want
Robert Redford for the male role. Redford isn't interested.