Funny Face Summary
Director: Stanley Donen
Genres: Musical, Romance
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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, Rovi
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