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Synopsis
This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's "visual consultant"), who is sent out by his female boss Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) to find a "new face". It doesn't take Dick long to discover Jo (Audrey Hepburn, who does her own singing), an owlish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk. Acting as Pygmalion to Jo's Galatea, Dick whisks the wide-eyed girl off to Paris and transforms her into the fashion world's hottest model. Along the way, he falls in love with Jo, and works overtime to wean her away from such phony-baloney intellectuals as Professor Emile Flostre (Michel Auclair). The Gershwin tunes include the title song, "S'wonderful", "How Long Has This Been Going On" and "He Loves and She Loves"; among the newer numbers is Kay Thompson's energetic opener "Think Pink". For years available only in washed-out, flat prints, Funny Face was eventually restored to its full Technicolor and VistaVision glory. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Michel Auclair Prof. Emile Flostre
Iphigenie Castiglioni Armande
Jean del Val Hairdresser
Sue England Laura
Robert Flemyng Paul Duval
Alex Gerry Dovitch
Virginia Gibson Babs
Sunny Harnett Specialty Dancer
Audrey Hepburn Jo Stockton
Ruta Lee Lettie
Suzy Parker Specialty Dancer
Kay Thompson Maggie Prescott
Fred Astaire Dick Avery

Production Crew

Leonard Gershe Additional Music
Roger Edens Additional Music
George W. Davis Art Director
Hal Pereira Art Director
Eugene Loring Choreography
Fred Astaire Choreography
Ray June Cinematographer
Adolph Deutsch Composer (Music Score)
George Gershwin Composer (Music Score)
Ira Gershwin Composer (Music Score)
Leonard Gershe Composer (Music Score)
Roger Edens Composer (Music Score)
Adolph Deutsch Conductor
Edith Head Costume Designer
Hubert de Givenchy Costume Designer
Stanley Donen Director
Frank Bracht Editor
George Gershwin Featured Music
Ira Gershwin Featured Music
Wally Westmore Makeup
Alexander Courage Musical Arrangement
Adolph Deutsch Musical Direction/Supervision
Roger Edens Producer
Leonard Gershe Screenwriter
Ray Moyer Set Designer
Sam Comer Set Designer
John P. Fulton Special Effects
Year: 1957
Runtime: 103
Country: USA
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature


Produced by
Paramount

Awards
1957 - Best Picture - National Board of Review
1957 - Special Citation - National Board of Review
1957 - Special Citation - National Board of Review
1975 - Film Presented - Telluride Film Festival