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Funny Face

  • 1957
  • Approved
  • 1h 43m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
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Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face (1957)
Home Video Trailer from Paramount Home Entertainment
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Romantic ComedyComedyMusicalRomance

An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.

  • Director
    • Stanley Donen
  • Writers
    • Leonard Gershe
    • Claude-Jean Bonnardot
  • Stars
    • Audrey Hepburn
    • Fred Astaire
    • Kay Thompson
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    • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    34K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Stanley Donen
    • Writers
      • Leonard Gershe
      • Claude-Jean Bonnardot
    • Stars
      • Audrey Hepburn
      • Fred Astaire
      • Kay Thompson
    • 184User reviews
    • 81Critic reviews
    • 75Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 4 Oscars
      • 2 wins & 10 nominations total

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    Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn
    • Jo Stockton
    Fred Astaire
    Fred Astaire
    • Dick Avery
    Kay Thompson
    Kay Thompson
    • Maggie Prescott
    Michel Auclair
    Michel Auclair
    • Prof. Émile Flostre
    Robert Flemyng
    Robert Flemyng
    • Paul Duval
    Dovima
    • Marion
    Suzy Parker
    Suzy Parker
    • Specialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)
    Sunny Hartnett
    • Specialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)
    Jean Del Val
    Jean Del Val
    • Hairdresser
    Virginia Gibson
    Virginia Gibson
    • Babs
    Sue England
    Sue England
    • Laura
    Ruta Lee
    Ruta Lee
    • Lettie
    Alex Gerry
    Alex Gerry
    • Dovitch
    Iphigenie Castiglioni
    • Armande
    Heather Ames
    Heather Ames
    • Junior Editor
    • (uncredited)
    Fern Barry
    • Southern Wife
    • (uncredited)
    Brandon Beach
    • Fashion Show Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Paul Bisciglia
    Paul Bisciglia
    • Photographer
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Stanley Donen
    • Writers
      • Leonard Gershe
      • Claude-Jean Bonnardot
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    • Trivia
      Baroness Ella Van Heemstra: a sidewalk café patron. In real life, she is Audrey Hepburn's mother.
    • Goofs
      After Dick kisses Jo and leaves the bookstore, Jo begins to sing "How Long Has This Been Going On". As she sings to herself while looking at the mirror in the supposedly empty bookstore, someone is reflected in the mirror moving around on the second floor of the bookstore.
    • Quotes

      Dick Avery: When I get through with you, you'll look like... What do you call beautiful? A tree. You'll look like a tree.

    • Crazy credits
      The opening credits, designed by film consultant Richard Avedon, consist of traditional film credit display interspersed with live action, fashion models and photographic film.
    • Alternate versions
      Kay Thompson is shown singing "do some window shopping in the Rue de la Paix" in pouring rain, carrying an open umbrella. The version shown in the final film was shot in brilliant sunshine with the umbrella left closed!
    • Connections
      Edited into Chop Suey (2001)
    • Soundtracks
      Overture: Funny Face/'S Wonderful/Think Pink!
      (uncredited)
      Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
      Music by George Gershwin
      Performed by Fred Astaire

    User reviews184

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    Plot, Schmot!

    You have Audrey Hepburn, you have Fred Astaire, you have Gershwin songs. Who needs a plot?

    Okay, there was something of a plot, something about a Greenwich Village girl who wants to go to Paris, talk b.s. philosophy on the Left Bank, wear black clothes and no make-up. It reads like something out of one of Woody Allen's early stories - before he wrote it!

    Audrey Hepburn never knew how to look bad nor act bad. But in this she looks light-years more beautiful as the proverbial Greenwich Village used-book-store Plain Jane than any Paris fashion model - then or now.
    • eye3
    • Jul 5, 1999
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 13, 1957 (Canada)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Ein süßer Fratz
    • Filming locations
      • Château de la reine blanche, Coye-la-Forêt, Oise, France(wedding dress photo shoot, Dick's marriage proposal)
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $3,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $873
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 43 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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