Funny Lady: Press & Premiere
Columbia Pictures Press Releases
To publicize Funny Lady, Columbia Pictures issued a series of press releases, each covering a different aspect of the film, or featuring interviews with the film's principle actors. Barbra Archives has scanned three press releases for Streisand fans to read.
The press release links below are PDF files (use Adobe Reader to view them):
- Funny Lady Production Notes (1.9 MB)
- Barbra Streisand Offers Different Screen Portrait of Fanny Brice (quotes from Barbra)
- Barbra Streisand—Then and Now (quotes from Barbra)
- Billy Rose's Fabulous Aquacade Re-Created for Funny Lady (all about filming the pool sequence)
Columbia Pictures Exhibitor's Promo Package
Columbia Pictures sent out a special exhibitor’s promotional package for their Funny Girl sequel, Funny Lady.
The package featured an 11x14-inch gatefold cover: “The Funny Girl you fell in love with becomes the Lady you will never forget.” Inside, between opposing logos was an 11x14 full color shot of Streisand in her Bob Mackie-designed “Great Day” costume; the pre-printed signature from Barbra said, “Dear Exhibitor—See you Easter ‘75!”
A 5-page production sheet gave background on the cast and production team.
Included in the promotional package (and most rare!) was a 10-inch promotional record featuring excerpts from “Great Day,” “I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten-Cent Store),” “Love Song” (which was “Isn’t It Better”), “Blind Date” and “Production Number” (which featured the rare, unreleased “All My Life on the Stage” — the introduction to “Let's Hear It For Me”).
Newspaper, Magazine Ads
This ad (below) featured Funny Lady lip gloss!
“Funny Lady” Royal Premiere
From an AP story [the premiere took place March 17, 1975]:
“Why do women have to wear gloves and not the men?” Barbra Streisand asked Queen Elizabeth II as they extended their gloved hands to each other at the royal premiere of Funny Lady.
“I'll have to think about that one,” the queen replied. “I suppose it's tradition.”
Palace protocol demands that women being presented to the monarch wear gloves. Men do not.
The queen's gloves were pink silk, Miss Streisand's white leather.
Costar James Caan, next on the receiving line at the benefit Monday night, haad his own handshake problem. His fist was bandaged.
“I got it rodeoing,” he said.
“Goodness!” exclaimed the queen.
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