Funny Lady

Funny Lady
Theatrical poster
Directed byHerbert Ross
Written by
Produced byRay Stark
Starring
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Edited by
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • March 12, 1975 (1975-03-12)[1]
Running time
136 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8.5 million[2]
Box office$40.1 million[3]
Publicity photo for Funny Girl to Funny Lady, a live TV special promoting the film, hosted by Dick Cavett (March 9, 1975)[4]

Funny Lady is a 1975 American biographical musical comedy-drama film and the sequel to the 1968 film Funny Girl. The film stars Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall and Ben Vereen.

Herbert Ross, who helmed the musical sequences for Funny Girl (which had been directed by William Wyler), serves as the director. The screenplay, written by Jay Presson Allen and Arnold Schulman as based on a story by Schulman, is a highly fictionalized account of the later life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her marriage to songwriter and impresario Billy Rose. The primary score was by John Kander and Fred Ebb. The film was nominated for numerous awards including Golden Globe nominations for Streisand as Best Actress and Best Actor for Caan. Streisand revisited the soundtrack to the film in her 2016 concert.

  1. ^ Funny Lady at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference murphy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Funny Lady, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  4. ^ Funny Girl to Funny Lady (1975) at IMDb