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
Fanny Brice (1908-1980). Brice had a short-lived marriage in her teens to a local barber, Frank White, whom she met in 1910 in Springfield, Massachusetts, when she was touring in "College Girl." The marriage lasted three years and she brought suit for divorce in 1913. Her second husband was professional gambler Julius W. "Nicky" Arnstein. Before their marriage, Arnstein served fourteen months in Sing Sing for wiretapping. Brice visited him in prison every week. In 1918 they were married after living together for six years. In 1924, Arnstein was charged in a Wall Street bond theft. Brice insisted on his innocence and