Fanny Brice Collection

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Funny Lady

Columbia Pictures

Rastar Productions

United States of America

English

Barbra Streisand

James Caan

Omar Sharif

Roddy McDowall

Ben Vereen

Carole Wells

Larry Gates

Eugene Troobnick

Heidi O'Rourke

Royce Wallace

Lilyan Chauvin

Samantha C. Kirkeby

Matt Emery

Joshua Shelley

Cliff Norton

Corey Fischer

Garrett Lewis

Byron Webster

Ken Sansom

Colleen Camp

Alana Stewart

Jackie Stoloff

Bert May

Bea Busch

Maggie Malooly

Don Torres

Jodean Lawrence

Larry Arnold

Shirley Kirkes

Jerry Trent

Toni Kaye

Gary Menteer

Raymond Guth

Deborah Sherman

Dick Winslow

Dick DeBenedictis

Louis Da Pron

Hank Stohl

Diane Wyatt

Tom Northam

Tod Durwood

Paul Bryar

Brett Hadley

Jack Frey

Jadeen Vaughn

Ben Freedman

Maralyn Thuma

Phil Gray

Frank L. Pine

Bill Baldwin

Ann Pennington

Ray Stark

Herbert Ross

Arnold Schulman

Jay Presson Allen

Maury Winetrobe

Vilmos Zsigmond

Marion Rothman

Marshall Schlom

Don L. Cash

Jack Roe

Phil Cory

Charles E. Dolan

Peter Matz

George Jenkins

Ray Pownall

Ray Aghayan

John Kander

Bob Mackie

James Wong Howe

Mel Traxel

Dick Johnson

Audrey A. Blasdel

John Franco Jr.

Jennifer Shull

Fred Ebb

Stu Fleming

Regina Gruss

Shirlee Strahm

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I guess a sequel to "Funny Girl" (1968) was always likely, but it really ended up being a shame that we waited seven years for this really unremarkable follow-up. The theme picks up the life of the now successful Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) and develops her rather lively relationship with two-bit writer Billy Rose (James Caan), who wrote a few of her hits and to whom she got married. Unfortunately, despite a decent effort from the star, the writing is not a patch on the first film: the humour there that was naive and amusing has now become coarse, unfunny and strained. The musical numbers - "More Than You Know" from Streisand and "Me and My Shadow" from Al Jolson demonstrate that Rose had some skill (with Yip Harburg on the first song too) at song writing, but again there is a paucity of memorable songs from his pen. Indeed the Oscar nominated (John) Kander and (Fred) Ebb seem to have done most of the musical heavy lifting here. We also dwell far too much on their flawed relationship, and by halfway through, the initial "breath of fresh air" approach Caan brought to the film, was drowning in a sea of treacle. Omar Sharif brings a soupçon of style to this film, and there's Roddy McDowall - well he could hardly be described as versatile, but he tries to liven things up a bit too - but, in the end it's a film about two songs with performances that almost look like they were implanted into the thing. As you would expect, it is a well put together piece of cinema - it looks and sounds great, but like a meringue - there is not much inside.

Billy Wants to Save the Show (Scene)

Funny Lady (1975) Original Trailer [FHD]

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Barbra Streisand

James Caan

Omar Sharif

Roddy McDowall

Ben Vereen

Carole Wells

Larry Gates

Eugene Troobnick

Heidi O'Rourke

Royce Wallace

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