Funny Lady (1975)

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• Buget: 8,5 mil. USD
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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.

Production

Although contractually bound to make one more film for producer Ray Stark (Fanny Brice's one-time son-in-law), Streisand balked at doing the project. She told Stark "that it would take litigation to make her do a sequel." However, Streisand liked the script, which showed Fanny to be "...tougher, more acerbic, more mature...", and she agreed.

Arnold Schulman wrote a script and got credit but said most of the final screenplay was the work of Jay Presson Allen.

The first to read for Billy Rose was Robert Blake. Other actors were mentioned, including Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, but ultimately James Caan was chosen. Streisand explained: "It comes down to whom the audience wants me to kiss. Robert Blake, no. James Caan, yes."

Vilmos Zsigmond was the film's original director of photography, but was fired after less than three days by Stark who was unhappy with the footage. Zsigmond and his camera operator Nick McLean later said Stark wanted a more stylized, classical Hollywood fashion of musical photography, while Zsigmond had sought a more realist approach similar to Cabaret, which Stark thought looked too dark.

Studio executives forced Ross to trim the film to a manageable 136 minutes before release. Much of Vereen's performance ended up on the cutting room floor, together with a recreation of Brice's Baby Snooks radio show and dramatic scenes involving her and her daughter.

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