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Name: Funny Lady
Released: 1975-3-13
Cast: Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, Ben Vereen

Funny Lady

PG
2h 18m
1975

30%

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Barbra Steisand is back and she's better than ever as the exuberant Fanny Brice in Funny Lady, sequel to acclaimed Academy Award® winner, (Barbra Streisand as Best Actress, 1968) Funny Girl. This lively, lavish musical opens a new chapter in Fanny's career and love life. Now divorced from wealthy Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), she teams up with songwriter Billy Rose (James Caan), a brash and unkempt showman who is bursting with enthusiasm and theatrical ambitions. They make an unusual couple, the polished performer and the upstart producer, but a friendship blossoms into love. Funny Lady is the poignant story of their show business magic, their unbridled temperaments, and their touching, bittersweet romance. Featuring dazzling production numbers, elegant costuming by Bob Mackie and an electric cast. Streisand is a Funny Lady you'll never forget!

Director:

Herbert Ross

Producer:

Ray Stark

Writer:

Arnold Schulman, Jay Presson Allen

Cast:

Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, Ben Vereen, Carole Wells

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

30%

Reviews

New Yorker

Pauline Kael

Funny Lady... crashes along for almost an hour and then it hits a failure point, from which it never recovers.

Funny Lady is only a semi-hit, but Streisand fans will love it.

May 9, 2023

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5th Freedom (Buffalo)

Dane Winters

I dig Barbara as much as everybody else does, but I cannot tell a lie. I can't say her latest movie colossus, ineptly titled Funny Lady (being neither funny nor ladylike), is great or good or even fair. It's just plain awful and there's no way around it.

When the show hits the road, first in its bloated "draft" form, with sketches that would make the great Ziegfield groan, then in its final, Fanny-polished version, it literally falls to, or into, pieces.

February 10, 2023

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Monthly Film Bulletin

Geoff Brown

[A] shoddy, joyless enterprise.

February 10, 2023

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