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Funny Face
1957
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 .. Read more
| Starring | Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Flemyng, Michel Auclair |
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| Director | Stanley Donen |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
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Funny Face
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
| Starring | Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Flemyng, Michel Auclair, Suzy Parker, Kay Thompson |
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| Director | Stanley Donen |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 43 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, Norwegian |
| Released | Production year: 1957 To Rent: DVD: 03 Sep 2001 |
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Stylish, wistful musical with good numbers but drawn-out dialogue; finally a shade too sophisticated and a whole lot too fey.
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- Halliwell's Film Guide
- 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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Fashion magazine Quality is looking for a girl who can represent everything it stands for. Photographer Dick Avery (Astaire) thinks he has found her on a ... read more »
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Flat predictable musical!
I hired this film through recommendation and really wish i hadn't! the cast alone should have brought a bit of spark to the film but apart from a few belly ... read more »
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I loved everything about this film, the songs and the dancing.
Astaire was a dancing genius. His toreador dance was tremendous, as was his dance ... read more » - 786352
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January and December - a blend of the Devil Wears Prada and Ugly Betty
Audrey Hepburn is so much more attractive than any of iour current movie stars its a pleasure just watching her accomplish all the strange situations she has to... read more »
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Funny Face
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 ...
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