Fanny Brice delete several production numbers closely associated with the star. The 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon "Quentin Quail" features a character based on Brice's characterization of Baby Snooks. Barbra Streisand starred as Brice in the 1964 Broadway musical "Funny Girl", which centered on Brice's rise to fame and troubled relationship with Arnstein. In 1968, Streisand won an Academy Award for Best Actress for reprising her role in the film version. The 1975 film-sequel, "Funny Lady", focused on Brice's turbulent relationship with impresario Billy Rose and was as highly fictionalized as the original film. Streisand also recorded the Brice songs "My Man", "I'd
Funny Girl (film) arrangements," he recalled. "They dropped eight songs from the Broadway show and we were asked to write some new ones. They didn’t want to go with success. It was the old-fashioned MGM Hollywood way of doing a musical. They always change things to their way of vision, and they always do it wrong. But, of all my musicals they screwed up, "Funny Girl" came out the best." Because the songs "My Man", "Second Hand Rose", and "I’d Rather Be Blue" frequently were performed by the real Brice during her career, they were interpolated into the Styne-Merrill score. The soundtrack album