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Funny Face

Funny Face

  • Status: Released
  • 13-02-1957
  • Runtime: 103 min
  • Score: 7
  • Vote count: 688

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

Audrey Hepburn

Jo Stockton

Fred Astaire

Dick Avery

Kay Thompson

Maggie Prescott

Michel Auclair

Prof. Emile Flostre

Robert Flemyng

Paul Duval

Dovima

Marion

Suzy Parker

Specialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)

Sunny Hartnett

Specialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)

Jean Del Val

Hairdresser

Virginia Gibson

Babs

Sue England

Laura

Ruta Lee

Lettie

Alex Gerry

Dovitch

Bess Flowers

Fashion Show Spectator

Iphigenie Castiglioni

Armande

Bert Stevens

Guest at Aborted Fashion Show

Harold Miller

Guest at Aborted Fashion Show (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

Guest at Duval's Fashion Show (uncredited)

Brandon Beach

Guest at Aborted Fashion Show

Carole Eastman

Specialty Dancer (uncredited)

Leoda Richards

Fashion Show Spectator

Marion Gray

Marilyn White

Receptionist (uncredited)

Oliver Cross

Fashion Show Guest (uncredited)

Charles Fogel

Fashion Show Guest (uncredited)

Sam Harris

Fashion Show Guest (uncredited)

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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.