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An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk. Maggie Prescott, the Editor-in-Chief of New York based Quality, a fashion magazine that sets trends i.e. leads instead of follows, has come up with her latest brainchild: to feature a model to be the Quality Woman, complete with successful ...
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... A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked ...
About. 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 ...
A Cinderella story about an inconspicuous salesgirl who is whisked off to Paris by a group of fashion magazine sophisticates and transformed into a dazzling model with whom the magazine’s photographer falls in love. Comedy 1957 1 hr 43 min. 88%. 9+. Unrated.
The story to "Funny Face" is a simple one, a musical variation on Shaw's Pigmalion which was already a hit musical "My Fair Lady," turned into another Audrey Hepburn vehicle a few years after "Funny Face." What makes this movie stand out is the spellbinding choreography by Astaire, Et.Al., Ray June's cinematography, George Gershwin music, such ...
Bookish salesgirl, Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn), becomes an accidental model when fashion photographer, Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), captures her unique visage in the background of one of his fashion shoots. Captivated by her look, he and his editor persuade her to accept a modeling contract by promising her a trip to Paris. Soon, Jo discovers that a barely tolerated job turns into the chance to ...
Funny Face is an 2020 American drama film, written and directed by Tim Sutton. It stars Cosmo Jarvis, Dela Meskienyar, Jonny Lee Miller, Dan Hedaya and Rhea Perlman . The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 23, 2020. It was released on March 30, 2021, by Gravitas Ventures .
