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Plot Summary
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.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
87%- Reviews Counted: 31
- Fresh: 27
- Rotten: 4
- Average Rating: 7.8/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Funny Face...teams Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn in a delightfully balmy romance.
Fresh: ...can clunk like a tin can in the dryer. But hey, we're talking Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, so that's some mighty elegant slack we're willing to cut here.
Fresh: What is startling here is the eye-popping colour, the self-reflexive photography and visual effects, the dance sequences (Fred Astaire with his umbrella), and the witty and ingenious use of the Paris locations.
Fresh: Astaire could still dance up a storm, no doubt about it, and this has its moments.
Customer Reviews
Kay Thompson! Redux
Everybody raves about Fred and Audrey (of course!). But let's not forget Kay Thompson. She is amazing in this movie. (I hope THIS review passes iTunes' muster... )
LOVE IT!
i WOULD have given it 5 stars, but... while it is a comedy, even more so it is a MUSICAL! which in my opinion iTunes needs WAY MORE OF! But, this movie is GREAT anyone who likes Audrey will LOVE this movie, its one of my all time favorites, and i'm only 13! How about some Doris Day iTunes????
SHe does her own singing.
yes this is what i love about this movie. its her own dancing and singing. this is a very different role for Mrs.Hepburn but a great one. Now all we need is MY FAIR LADY. my favorite movie of audrey's. Good Choice ITUNES!
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