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
Nicky Arnstein in the 1968 film and its 1975 sequel, "Funny Lady". Nicky Arnstein Julius Wilford "Nicky" Arnstein (born Arndstein; July 1, 1879October 2, 1965) was an American professional gambler and con artist. He was known primarily as Julius Arnold, but among his aliases were "Jules Arndtsteyn", "Nick Arnold," "Nicholas Arnold", "Wallace Ames", "John Adams", and "J. Willard Adair". He was best known as the second husband of entertainer Fanny Brice. Arnstein was born Julius Arndstein in Berlin, German Empire. His father, Moses Arndstein, was a German Jew from Berlin who fought in the Franco-Prussian War. His mother, born Thekla van Shaw,