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    Funny Lady (1975)

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    After the runaway success of Barbra Streisand’s Oscar-winning film debut Funny Girl (1968), it was inevitable that Columbia would want her to return in a sequel.

    The result was Funny Lady, a sort of ‘Fanny Sings Again’ which takes up the Fanny Brice story after the end of her marriage to callous gambler (Omar Sharif) and continues to show how the great comedienne has no luck with her love life by chronicling her unhappy marriage to overbearing producer/songwriter Billy Rose (James Caan).

    The film’s first quarter, which hilariously describes the trials and tribulations of an Atlantic City try-out for a new revue – titled Crazy Quilt – promises far more than the rest of the movie delivers.

    Ultimately, Fanny drifts away from both Rose and Arnstein and finds a career in Hollywood as the star of The Baby Snooks Show, a long-running radio show for CBS.

    Also in the cast are Roddy McDowall, Ben Vereen, Larry Gates, Carol Welles and Heidi O’Rourke.

    Fanny Brice
    Barbra Streisand
    Billy Rose
    James Caan
    Nicky Arnstein
    Omar Sharif
    Bobby Moore
    Roddy McDowall
    Bert Robbins
    Ben Vereen
    Norma Butler
    Carole Wells
    Bernard Baruch
    Larry Gates
    Ned
    Gene Troobnick
    Eleanor Holm
    Heidi O’Rourke
    Adèle
    Royce Wallace
    Mademoiselle
    Lilyan Chauvin
    Fran
    Samantha Huffaker
    Buck Bolton
    Matt Emery

    Director
    Herbert Ross

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