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Yentl (1983) More at IMDbPro »

• Diane Lane auditioned for the role of Hadass. She later became Barbra Streisand's stepdaughter-in-law when she married Josh Brolin.
  
  
• After Heaven's Gate (1980) lost nearly all of its $40 million budget, this movie nearly wasn't made because of its starting budget and storyline, which studio heads felt wouldn't sell tickets.
  
  
• Answering certain reviews that suggested all the songs in the film "sounded the same," songwriters Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman responded that there are indeed similarities in the songs because they wanted them to reflect the lessons of the Talmud, in which each lesson often reflects the lesson before it.
  
  
• "Yentl" was a stage play that was produced for Broadway and opened at the Eugene O'Neil Theater on October 23, 1975 running for 223 performances starring Tovah Feldshuh.
  
  
• Leading lady Barbra Streisand's feature film directorial debut.
  
  
• Norma Atallah, who played the maid for the Vishkower family, was also Barbra Streisand's stand-in for the film. Streisand had her memorize Yentl's lines and play them while she was setting shots.
  
  
• Amy Irving became the first - and to date only - actress to be nominated for both an Academy Award and a Razzie Award for the same performance. She won neither award.
  
  

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