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
fotógrafo
women's fashion
livraria
revista

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.