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Summary: WOW!
Review: This musical is absolutely fabulaous. It tells a simple story of how an intellectual goes from working in a book store to modeling in Paris in a way that is mezmorizing. You can't stop watching the film at any moment and in the back of your mind, you never want it to end. The music, wardrobe, settings, and overall feel of the whole thing is first rate. My favorte part of the film was the scene where Astaire is photographing "Jo" at the train station.
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Summary: Absolutely charming!!!
Review: She was not the bombshell of Hollywood, but nobody in the Hollywood and film history has ever been more graceful and elegant than Audrey Hepburn. Funny Face is definitely one of her most famous and fashionable movies. This movie will be a perfect fit for musical lovers, audrey's fans and Givenchy's admirers!!!
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Summary: "Think Pink!"
Review: That's the stylistic motto of this rose-colored tribute to Gershwin musicals of the 1930s and the 50s Paris 'n' Poodle design craze. Both genres and eras are perfectly blended into a fresh and sassy parfait that includes a twist of interpretive dance (a la Audrey) and is rakishly topped by a twirling beret. "That's for me! Bonjour, Paris!"
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Summary: Fabulous, stylish, charming, and delightful.
Review: Audrey s'wonderful and Fred s'marvelous in this fabulous fifties Gershwin musical. Kay Thompson (the creator of the Eloise children's books) gives the best movie performance of her life. Fashion diva alert - this musical has everything you want to know about late fifties style. My favorite musical of all time!
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Summary: This is a fabulous musical!!
Review: Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn are fabulous in this romantic and magical musical. The songs are classics, the scenery of Paris are breathtaking and Audrey Hepburn's wardrobe is to die for. I am a big fan of musicals and this is one of the best one of that time. This is definitely a must see if you are a fan of Gerswin musicals.
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Summary: The Ultimate Fashion Musical!
Review: Anyone who loves Breakfast at Tiffany's and Roman Holiday knows that Audrey Hepburn is one of the most magical women ever captured on film. But there is something special about Funny Face. It captured a part of the real Audrey -- part book worm, part great dancer, part reluctant star. The "On How to be Lovely" scene with Patricia Neal is one of the most glorious moments in film. You just cannot help but smile when they start singing that song. It will make you fall in love with Audrey over and over again!
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Summary: One of the Greatest Movie Musicals...Ever
Review: Whenever I think of Paris, I want to see Funny Face again.
Being in Paris is like being in an Audrey Hepburn movie, and nothing makes you feel like this more than the delightful "Bonjour Paris" number done when Astaire, Hepburn and the extraordinary Kaye Thompson (Liza Minnelli's godmother, BTW, who steals the picture) arrive in the City of Lights. This is the ultimate Paris moment.Using the score from Gershwin's stage version of Funny Face and a new script by Leonard Gershe, under the sure hand of Stanley Donen, everything is beautiful. Thompson plays a character based on Diana Vreeland, the head of Vogue, who, under the advice of the photographer played by Astaire (and based on Richard Avedon) takes a young intellectual wallflower from Greenwich Village and passes
her off as "the Quality Woman." The entire thing is enchanting, and after 46 years, Funny Face still holds up beautifully. The highlights include the opening "Think Pink"
number; Astaire's bullfight dance during "Let's Kiss and Make Up," "Clap Yo' Hands," done as only Astaire and Thompson could, and one of the most gorgeous, lasting images of the great Audrey Hepburn: dressed beautifully by Givenchy in red, she walks down the grand staircase at the Louvre, a flowing sheer red shawl held aloft. She has never looked so beautiful, and we are so lucky to have had her in our lives. Funny Face is a musical treasure to be seen again, and again and again!
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Summary: Where Was MArni NIxon?
Review: Funny Face has just about everything going for it. Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Stanley Donen, great Gershwin tunes, a terrific rare glimpse of the incomparable Kay Thompson and above all some of the most exciting visuals and overall art direction ever caught on film. So what happened? The sad decision to let Hepburn do her own singing. That's not to say her voice is bad. It's very... nice. But for a full blown musical of this scale, the audience is yearning for Hepburn's character to really give out with a great set of pipes. Perhaps not quite to the extent of Kay Thompson, an actress perhaps better suited for the stage than the intimacy of the screen. Yet while the movie does not fulfill its promise, it's still well worth seeing. The transformation of Hepburn from mousy bookstore clerk to haute couture model is as wonderful as her similar transformation in "Sabrina". The modeling sessions with Astaire directing Hepburn are delightful and above all the VistaVision presentation of late 50s gloss can not be matched, (the opening credits nearly make up for the entire movie). With Richard Avedon and Suzy Parker's influence the movie almost makes you forgive its failings. Still by the last frame the audience is left with only one thought: "Where's Marni Nixon when you need her?".
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Summary: Funny, poignant comedy
Review: I knew I was going to love this film when I saw it at first. Kay Thompson strutting through that ridiculous-looking lobby and then bursting into song ("Think pink!") was enough to hook me. The plotline is simply: Astaire plays a photographer who, after taking pictures of a model in a girl named Jo's bookstore, decides that Hepburn is the "new look." He convinces fashion empress Maggie Prescott to make Jo a model, and she quickly is whisked off to Paris. But Hepburn's character is no brainless fluff piece--more seriously than anything, Jo loves philosophy. There is a tangle of fashion, worldliness and philosophy before things are straightened out. Never seen Fred Astaire before, but let me put this quickly: He's almost as good an actor as he is a dancer. Hepburn is even better than usual in this movie. Not only does she shine alongside Astaire, but she also does a funky dance number in a cafe with a pair of great-looking French guys. Her musical numbers are great--who says she can't sing? Kay Thompson is wonnnnnddeerful as the charmingly obnoxious Ms. Prescott--her entire brain is taken over with fashion and modeling ("Think pink!") She has the funniest lines in the entire movie. There's also good-natured poking at the fashion industry, which I won't spoil for you. Needless to say that when you watch Marion the model for more than a minute, you'll be guffawing! This movie is a gem! Buy it today, don't rent!
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Summary: Three and a half stars-this Funny Face is still high hat!
Review: The editorial review for this movie states that it was ..."an unproduced play".
This is very misleading.
If memory serves this movie was based on what was to be a Broadway play originally entitled "Wedding Day" but MGM came a calling and bought the rights before it ever reached the stage.When MGM had second thoughts it got passed on to Paramount where they finally turned it into the movie we now have.
However Fred and his wonderful and talented sister Adele first introduced Funny Face(the PLAY-similar score but totally different plot) to the world back in 1927.It hit Broadway and had an extensive and fabulously long run into mid 1928.From there Fred and Adele took it to the London stage and repeated its' wild success there well into 1929.
Upon its' arrival on the screen in 1957 Paramount lifted four songs from the original 1927 George and Ira Gershwin songbook and added two more by Leonard Gershe and Roger Edens.
It is certainly a movie influenced by its' times with its' central theme based around the late 50s coffee house/beatnik/philosophic phenom of the day.These were the days of Sartre,Kerouac,Ginsberg and cool jazz.
Director Stanley Donen almost paints this film with his heavy use of colouring from beginning to end.
Audrey Hepburn was also a kind of phenom of her own during this period.One of the most popular actresses of the day and one of the most emulated from her hair style and clothing to her petite figure.She gives a pleasing performance and is quite good overall and the director gives her many a camera-loving close up.
However her co-star is the real rock and foundation of this film-the inimitable Mr.Fred Astaire.
His first dance number is 'Funny Face' with Audrey in of all places a dark room (he could dance on top of a garbage dump and make it seem like a cloud!).But you soon forget where they are as Fred takes the movie to a different and wonderous level.As in any Astaire routine he speaks volumes without a single word telling his partner and us what it is exactly he's trying to say.And through it all one word says more about him than any other....class!!To say he was without peer is absolutely no exaggeration whatsoever.I never will cease to marvel at his virtuosity and style.
His next number is a solo effort "Let's Kiss and Makeup".Watch for his tossing of an umbrella into a stand many feet away(no trick photgraphy either!).
Both Fred and Audrey are ably backed by the irrepressable Kay Thompson.This was a good part for Kay because there was nothing subtle in Kays acting or vocals as she played everything "big".Kay was quite the club maven and was well known among other things as having the Williams Brothers as part of her act at one period.When they broke up one of the brothers,young Andy, went on to have more than a little success as a solo singer.
All in all this is good movie musical and a feather in the cap for all concerned.It's not one of Fred or Audreys' best films but it still certainly manages to entertain and hit the mark today in both the music and the dance routines.
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