Funny Face

2/13/19571h 43m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ S'Wonderful! S'Marvelous! ...She's The Fairest Lady of All! ~

Overview:

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Director:

Stanley Donen

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

dance
paris, france
photographer
intellectual
musical
beatnik
man woman relationship
fashion photographer
book store
eiffel tower, paris
fashion show
fashion magazine
high fashion
fashion model
women's fashion

Cast

Audrey Hepburn

~ as ~

Jo Stockton

Fred Astaire

~ as ~

Dick Avery

Kay Thompson

~ as ~

Maggie Prescott

Michel Auclair

~ as ~

Prof. Emile Flostre

Robert Flemyng

~ as ~

Paul Duval

Dovima

~ as ~

Marion

Suzy Parker

~ as ~

Specialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)

Sunny Hartnett

~ as ~

Specialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)

Jean Del Val

~ as ~

Hairdresser

Virginia Gibson

~ as ~

Babs

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
7
Despite the presence of Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, I think this film actually belongs to Kay Thompson. She plays really well as the 1950s version of Dame Anna Wintour in this amiable, if a little thinly spread, musical comedy. Infuriated by the rather drab quality of her latest "Quality" magazine, she determines to revamp the whole thing. In pink! A bookshop being used for a photo shoot by "Avery" (Astaire) provides the unlikely source for her new model - "Jo" (Hepburn) who is to the fashion industry what Herod was to babies. "Avery" is clever, though, and he offers a trade off that sees her do a shoot in Paris in return for a meeting with "Prof. Flostre" (Michel Auclair). What now ensues is all fairly predictable, a love triangle with "Jo" in the middle vacillating. George & Ira Gerschwin provided the musical numbers, and though they are very well staged, the film lacks a killer song. That said, Thompson is on super form as the no-nonsense boss, the dance numbers are colourful and energetic and finally, Hepburn has a lovely vivacity and enthusiasm to her performance - she takes to the musical numbers very much like a duck to water. Astaire isn't at his best, and Robert Flemyng's accent isn't the best either - but at the end, the whole thing falls into place with an enjoyable certainty.