''Funny Face'' is a 1957 American
musical
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film directed by
Stanley Donen
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and written by
Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by
George
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and
Ira Gershwin
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. Although having the same title as the 1927 Broadway musical
''Funny Face'' by the Gershwin brothers, and featuring the same male star (
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer. He is often called the greatest dancer in Hollywood film history.
Astaire's career in stage, film, and tele ...
), the plot is completely different and only four of the songs from the stage musical are included. Alongside Astaire, the film stars
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, t ...
and
Kay Thompson
Kay Thompson (born Catherine Louise Fink; November 9, 1909''"In the St. Louis Registry of Births, in the volume covering the period July 1909 – January 1910, on page 85, is the following entry: "Catherine Louise Fink, November 9, 1909."'' .
Plot
Maggie Prescott, a
fashion magazine
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publisher and editor for ''Quality'' magazine, is looking for the next big fashion trend. She wants a new look which is to be both "beautiful" and "intellectual". She and top fashion photographer Dick Avery want models who can "think as well as they look." The two brainstorm and come up with the idea to use a book store in
Greenwich Village
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as backdrop.
They find what they want in "Embryo Concepts", which is being run by the shy shop assistant and amateur philosopher, Jo Stockton. Jo thinks the fashion and modelling industry is nonsense, calling it "
chichi
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, and an unrealistic approach to self-impressions as well as economics". Maggie decides to use Jo but after the first shot Jo is locked outside to keep her from interrupting Maggie’s take-over of the shop. The crew leaves the store in a shambles; Dick stays behind to help clean up and apologizes to Jo, then kisses her impulsively. Jo dismisses him, but her song "
How Long Has This Been Going On?
"How Long Has This Been Going On?" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, for the musical '' Funny Face'' in 1927.
History
According to Ira Gershwin in his book ''Lyrics on Several Occasions'', after the premiere of ...
" shows that she feels the stirrings of romance.
What Jo wants above all is to go to
Paris
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and attend the famous Professor Émile Flostre's philosophy lectures about empathicalism. When Dick gets back to the darkroom, he sees something in Jo's face which is new and fresh and would be perfect for the campaign, giving it "character", "spirit", and "intelligence". They send for Jo, pretending they want to order some books from her shop. Once she arrives, they try to make her over and attempt to cut her hair. She is outraged and runs away, only to hide in the darkroom where Dick is working. When Dick mentions Paris, Jo becomes interested in the chance to see Professor Flostre and is finally persuaded to model for the magazine. Dick sings "
Funny Face
''Funny Face'' is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Although having the same title as the 1927 Broadway musical ''Funny ...
".
Soon, Maggie, Dick, and Jo are off to Paris to prepare for a major fashion event, shooting photos at famous landmarks from the area. During the various shoots, Jo and Dick fall in love. "
He Loves and She Loves "He Loves and She Loves" is a 1927 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics written by Ira Gershwin.
It replaced the song "How Long Has This Been Going On?" in the Broadway musical ''Funny Face''. It was introduced by Adele Astaire and Allen ...
". One night, when Jo is getting ready for a gala, she learns that Flostre is giving a lecture at a cafe nearby, which she attends. Eventually, Dick brings her back and they get into an argument at the gala's opening, which results in Jo being publicly embarrassed and Maggie outraged.
Jo goes to talk to Flostre at his home. Through some scheming, Maggie and Dick gain entrance to the soirée there. After performing an impromptu song and dance for Flostre's disciples, they confront Jo and Flostre. This leads to Dick causing Flostre to fall and knock himself out. Jo urges them to leave but when Flostre comes round, he tries to seduce her. Shocked at the behavior of her "idol", she smashes a vase over his head and runs out, returning just in time to take part in the final fashion show. During this, Maggie tries to get in touch with Dick, who has made plans to leave Paris. Before her wedding gown finale, Jo looks out the window and sees the plane Dick was supposed to be on flying over the city. Believing that he has refused to return to her, she runs off the runway in tears at the conclusion of the show.
Meanwhile, Dick is still at the airport. He runs into Flostre and learns how Jo had attacked him. Realizing how much Jo cares, Dick returns to the fashion show, but Jo is nowhere to be found. Finally, after applying the insights of empathicalism at Maggie's behest, Dick guesses that Jo would return to the church where he had photographed her in a wedding dress and they shared their first romantic moment. On his arrival there himself, he finds Jo (in the wedding gown) by a little brook. They join in the duet "
'S Wonderful" and embrace.
Cast
*
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, t ...
as Jo Stockton
*
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer. He is often called the greatest dancer in Hollywood film history.
Astaire's career in stage, film, and tele ...
as Dick Avery
*
Kay Thompson
Kay Thompson (born Catherine Louise Fink; November 9, 1909''"In the St. Louis Registry of Births, in the volume covering the period July 1909 – January 1910, on page 85, is the following entry: "Catherine Louise Fink, November 9, 1909."'' as Maggie Prescott
*
Michel Auclair
Michel Auclair (born Vladimir Vujović, sr-cyr, Владимир Вујовић; 14 September 1922 – 7 January 1988) was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema.
Auclair was born to a Serbian fathe ...
as Professor Émile Flostre
*
Robert Flemyng
Benjamin Arthur Flemyng (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995), known professionally as Robert Flemyng, was a British actor. The son of a doctor, and originally intended for a medical career, Flemyng learned his stagecraft in provincial repertory th ...
as Paul Duval
*
Dovima
Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), known professionally as Dovima, was an American supermodel during the 1950s.
Biography
Dovima was born Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba in Queens, New York to Stanley Juba, a P ...
as Marion
*
Jean Del Val
Jean Del Val (born Jean Jacques Gauthier; 17 November 1891 – 13 March 1975) was a French-born actor, also credited as Jean Gauthier and Jean Gautier.
Career
He played roles during the Hollywood silent era, beginning with ''The Fortunes of Fif ...
as Hairdresser
*
Virginia Gibson
Virginia Gibson (born Virginia Gorski; April 9, 1925 – April 25, 2013) was an American dancer, singer and actress of film, television and musical theatre.
Early years
Of Polish and Irish lineage, Gibson was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jo ...
as Babs
*
Sue England
Sue England (July 17, 1928 – March 19, 2018) was an American actress.
Early years
England won beauty titles as a youngster -- "Miss Tulsa" when she was 6 years old and "Oklahoma's Sweetheart" when she was older.
Career
England's professional ...
as Laura
*
Ruta Lee
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as Lettie
* Alex Gerry as Dovitch
*
Suzy Parker
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as Specialty Dancer (Pink Number)
*
Sunny Harnett
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as Specialty Dancer (Pink Number)
Musical numbers
* "Think Pink!"
* "
How Long Has This Been Going On?
"How Long Has This Been Going On?" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, for the musical '' Funny Face'' in 1927.
History
According to Ira Gershwin in his book ''Lyrics on Several Occasions'', after the premiere of ...
" - originally composed for the musical ''Funny Face'', but not used
* "How Long Has This Been Going On? (Reprise)"
* "
Funny Face
''Funny Face'' is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Although having the same title as the 1927 Broadway musical ''Funny ...
" - from ''
Funny Face
''Funny Face'' is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Although having the same title as the 1927 Broadway musical ''Funny ...
'' (1927 musical)
* "Bonjour, Paris!"
* "Basal Metabolism"
* "Let's Kiss and Make Up" - from ''Funny Face''
* "
He Loves and She Loves "He Loves and She Loves" is a 1927 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics written by Ira Gershwin.
It replaced the song "How Long Has This Been Going On?" in the Broadway musical ''Funny Face''. It was introduced by Adele Astaire and Allen ...
" - from ''Funny Face''
* "Bonjour, Paris! (Reprise)"
* "On How to Be Lovely"
* "
Clap Yo' Hands
"Clap Yo' Hands" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
It was introduced in the musical ''Oh, Kay!'' (1926), and was featured by Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson in a song and dance routine in '' Funny Face'' (1957).
...
" - from ''
Oh, Kay!''
* "
'S Wonderful" - from ''Funny Face''
Production
The plot of the film version is drastically different from that of the Broadway musical, and only four of the songs remain. Astaire also starred in the stage version alongside his sister,
Adele Astaire
Adele Astaire Douglass (born Adele Marie Austerlitz, later known as Lady Charles Cavendish; September 10, 1896 – January 25, 1981), was an American dancer, stage actress, and singer. After beginning work as a dancer and vaudeville perform ...
. The film plot is actually adapted from another Broadway musical, ''Wedding Bells'', by
Leonard Gershe. The original title for the film was ''Wedding Day''.
Hepburn sings the songs herself in this, her first musical. She performs one solo, "
How Long Has This Been Going On?
"How Long Has This Been Going On?" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, for the musical '' Funny Face'' in 1927.
History
According to Ira Gershwin in his book ''Lyrics on Several Occasions'', after the premiere of ...
"; a duet with Astaire, "
'S Wonderful"; a duet with
Kay Thompson
Kay Thompson (born Catherine Louise Fink; November 9, 1909''"In the St. Louis Registry of Births, in the volume covering the period July 1909 – January 1910, on page 85, is the following entry: "Catherine Louise Fink, November 9, 1909."'' called "On How to Be Lovely"; and takes part in an ensemble performance of "Bonjour, Paris!". Her previous dance training is also called into play, not only in the two dance numbers she performs with Astaire but also for a
Bohemian
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-style solo dance in a nightclub.
As was the case with many of her leading men, Astaire was much older than Hepburn. At 58, three decades Hepburn's senior, he was approaching the end of his musical film career, in this, the second in a consecutive series of three French-themed musicals he made in the 1950s. He performs a song and
dance solo with umbrella and cape to Gershwin's "Let's Kiss and Make Up". According to Hepburn, she insisted on Astaire as a precondition for her participation. Thompson, who usually worked behind the scenes as a musical director for films, makes a rare appearance on camera as Maggie Prescott, a fashion magazine editor loosely based on
Diana Vreeland
Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903 – August 22, 1989) was a French-American fashion columnist and editor. She worked for the fashion magazine ''Harper's Bazaar'' and as editor-in-chief at ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', later becoming a special c ...
. (Architectural historian
Francis Morrone Francis Morrone (born 12 May 1958) is an American architectural historian of Irish and Italian ancestry, originally from Chicago, known for his work on the built history of New York City.
Morrone's essays on architecture have appeared in ''The Wall ...
says it was
Carmel Snow
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, editor-in-chief of ''
Harper’s Bazaar
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'', who was the inspiration for the Maggie Prescott character.) Besides her duet with Hepburn, she performs the solo number "Think Pink!" in the presence of a dance chorus, and Thompson and Astaire perform a comic dance duet to "
Clap Yo' Hands
"Clap Yo' Hands" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
It was introduced in the musical ''Oh, Kay!'' (1926), and was featured by Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson in a song and dance routine in '' Funny Face'' (1957).
...
". (While at ''
Vogue
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** ''Vogue Australia'', an Australian fashion magazine
** ''Vogue China'', ...
'', Vreeland once sent a memo to staff urging them to "Today let's think pig white! Wouldn't it be wonderful to have stockings that were pig white! The color of baby pigs, not quite white and not quite pink!"
)
Astaire's character was loosely based on the career of
Richard Avedon
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, who provided a number of the photographs seen in the film, including the stills for the opening credits, which were also used in the halls of ''Quality'' magazine. Probably the most famous single image from the film is the intentionally overexposed close-up of Hepburn's face in which only her facial features—her eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth—are visible. This image is seen briefly in black-and-white at the very beginning of the opening title sequence, which was designed by Avedon, during the
"Funny Face" musical number which takes place in a
darkroom
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, and when Dick (Astaire) presents it to Maggie (Thompson).
Release
Box office
On initial release, ''Funny Face'' was a
box office disappointment
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and failed to break even. However, in 1964, when ''
My Fair Lady
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'' (also starring Hepburn) was released to excellent reviews and huge box office grosses, Paramount theatrically reissued ''Funny Face''. As a result, the film drew substantial crowds and finally turned a profit.
Critical reception
The film was generally well received in the United States.
Bosley Crowther
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of ''
The New York Times
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'', for example, lauded it as "delightfully balmy," "colorful and glittering," and "extraordinarily stylish," "with class in every considerable department on which this sort of picture depends."
The reviewer for ''
The Times
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'', however, was not impressed when the film opened at the
Odeon
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...
in London on April 25, 1957: "...a displeasing piece of work, pseudo-sophisticated, expensive and brash in approach, vulgar in taste and insensitive in outlook. This, in fact, is the American 'musical' at its worst; not even the presence of Mr Fred Astaire, who was in the original stage production, can save the day. It may seem extravagant to discuss a 'musical' in terms proper to a serious creative work, yet there is that in the film's attitude towards the 'intellectual', whether in Greenwich Village or Paris, which offends. It is not amiable parody and it is not telling satire; it has its roots in the ill-based instinct to jeer, and its jeers are offensive."
[The Times review 25 April 1957: ''Odeon Cinema: "Funny Face" with Fred Astaire'']
On review aggregator website
Rotten Tomatoes
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, the film has an 88% rating, based on 40 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The consensus summarizes: "A timeless and elegant musical feast, ''Funny Face'' thrives on the agile and vibrant performances from legendary screen titans Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire."
Accolades
The
National Board of Review
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gave the film Special Citation award for the photographic innovations.
Leonard Gershe was nominated for "Best Written American Musical" by the
Writers Guild of America
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* The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), headquartered in New York City and affiliated with the AFL–CIO
* The Writers Guil ...
. Stanley Donen was nominated by the
Directors Guild of America
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for "Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures" and for a "Golden Palm" at the
1957 Cannes Film Festival.
Fred Astaire received a Golden Laurel nomination for "Top Male Musical Performance". The film received four
Academy Award
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"Oscar" nominations: Leonard Gershe for "Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen";
Edith Head
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and
Hubert de Givenchy
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(Hepburn's costume designer) for "Best Costume Design";
Ray June
Ray June, A.S.C. (March 27, 1895 – May 26, 1958) was an American cinematographer during the early and classical Hollywood cinema. His best-known films are ''Babes in Arms'' and ''Funny Face''. June attended Columbia University but did not grad ...
for "Best Cinematography"; and
Hal Pereira
Hal Pereira (April 29, 1905 – December 17, 1983) was an American art director, production designer, and occasional architect.
Pereira was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Sarah (Friedberg) and Saul Pereira. In the 1940s through the 1960s ...
,
George W. Davis,
Sam Comer
Samuel M. Comer (July 13, 1893 – December 27, 1974) was a set decorator who worked on over 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction.
He guid ...
, and
Ray Moyer
Ray Moyer (February 21, 1898 – February 6, 1986) was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Best Art Direction. He was born in Santa Barbara, California and died in Los Ange ...
for "Best Art Direction-Set Decoration".
The film is recognized by
American Film Institute
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Leade ...
in these lists:
* 2002:
AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions – Nominated
* 2004:
AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
** "
'S Wonderful" – Nominated
* 2006:
AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals
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– Nominated
Home media
To date, ''Funny Face'' has been released to
DVD
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in Region 1 (
North America
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) in three editions from
Paramount Home Entertainment
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The division oversees PPC's home entertainme ...
: in 2001 as part of the "Audrey Hepburn Widescreen Collection" series, in 2007 in a 50th Anniversary edition, and in 2009 as part of Paramount's Centennial Collection. The 2007 version has additional featurettes as well as improved picture and sound quality from the 2001 edition.
[Keizer, Mark]
"Funny Face - 50th Anniversary Edition"
- DVDFile - October 1, 2007 The 2009 release is spread over two discs and includes a few additional featurettes not included in the 2007 edition such as Kay Thompson's "Think Pink", "This is VistaVision" and "Fashion Photographers Exposed".
See also
*
List of American films of 1957
A list of American films released in 1957. ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
A-B
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U-Z
See also
* 1957 in the United States
References
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