Funny Girl (musical) Walter Pidgeon was cast as Flo Ziegfeld. The film won Streisand the Academy Award for Best Actress, an honor she shared with Katharine Hepburn for "The Lion in Winter", as well as the Golden Globe. The film, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and several other awards, was the top-grossing film of 1968. Diana Ross & the Supremes released a studio album titled "Diana Ross & the Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl"" on the Motown label, released in 1968. It is a cover album of songs from "Funny Girl". Motown had Ross and the Supremes
Fanny Brice later, at the time of Brice's daughter Frances's death in 1992, Brice's ashes were re-interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, some 20 miles west of her original interment place. Fanny's grave and those of her daughter, son and her daughter's husband Ray Stark are in an outdoor pavilion. For her contributions to the film and radio industries, Brice was posthumously inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with two stars. Her motion pictures star is located at 6415 Hollywood Boulevard while her radio star is located at 1500 Vine Street. The Stony Brook campus of the State