Isobel Lennart the Sixth Happiness", "Please Don't Eat the Daisies", "The Sundowners" which also received an Academy Award nomination, and "Two for the Seesaw". In 1964, Lennart wrote the book for the Broadway musical "Funny Girl", based on the life and career of Fanny Brice and her tempestuous relationship with gambler Nick Arnstein. It catapulted Barbra Streisand to fame and earned her a Tony Award nomination. In 1968, Lennart wrote the screen adaptation, which won her a Writers Guild of America award for Best Screenplay. It proved to be her last work. Three years later, she was killed in an automobile accident
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