Funny Lady (soundtrack) Lucky Can You Get" being a bonus track. Due to her contract with Ray Stark, Streisand was required to reprise her role as Fanny Brice in the sequel to "Funny Girl" (1968), which became "Funny Lady". Accompanying the 1975 film was the official soundtrack and one of the first records to be released by Arista Records, a new label created by record producer Clive Davis. Davis later revealed in his autobiographical book, "The Soundtrack of My Life", that Streisand was the perfect singer for the soundtrack as she was "the top female singer-actress in the world" and would likely be
Funny Girl (musical) from prison, and he and Fanny decide to separate. She is heartbroken, but resolves to pick up her life again ("Don't Rain on My Parade, Reprise"). Ray Stark had commissioned an authorized biography of Brice, based on taped recollections she had dictated, but was unhappy with the result. It eventually cost him $50,000 to stop publication of "The Fabulous Fanny", as it had been titled by the author. Stark then turned to Ben Hecht to write the screenplay for a biopic, but neither Hecht nor the ten writers who succeeded him were able to produce a version that satisfied Stark.