Joan & Babs

pre-facelift Joan pictured w/Babs?
...who ever it is, she looks like she swings both ways

The year was 1959, and Joan Sandra Molinsky (AKA Joan Rivers), then a struggling actress, was cast in the off-off Broadway play "Driftwood." The director couldn't find a leading man, so Joan suggested they make the characters lesbians. Even back then she got her way; another unknown, high-school student Barbara Joan Streisand -- it would become Barbra later -- was cast opposite Rivers.
"We played lesbian lovers," Rivers recalls. "That was the first thing Barbra did; soon after that she really got going. Let me tell you, Barbra is a great kisser, but no tongue."
the interview is HERE
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