Funny Lady

Broadway star Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand, title character) with pal Bobby (Roddy McDowall) assessing finances with Baruch (Larry Gates) when James Caan appears as Billy Rose, who would become Brice’s 2nd husband, in producer Ray Stark’s Funny Girl sequel, Funny Lady, 1975.

From an opening sequence with highlights from Funny Girl, 1968, an original tune by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Barbra Streisand reprising her role as Fanny Brice, this time on Depression-era Broadway, co-stars Royce Wallace and Roddy McDowall in support, in Funny Lady, 1975.

The Atlantic City preview of a show by her future husband Billy Rose (James Caan, not seen), Carole Wells among performers having trouble, Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, in a famous setting by designer George Jenkins, with a song by Harry Warren, Mort Dixon and Rose, in Funny Lady, 1975.

Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) is beginning to work with her future husband Billy Rose (James Caan), here recording a song the real Rose wrote with Vincent Youmans and Edward Eliscu, ca. 1930, her pal Bobby (Roddy McDowall) attending, in the Funny Girl sequel, Funny Lady, 1975.