Funny Face

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Funny Face ★★★ 1957

Musical satire on beatniks and the fashion scene also features the May December romance between Astaire and the ever-lovely Hepburn. He is a high-fashion photographer (based on Richard Avedon); she is a Greenwich Village bookseller fond of shapeless, drab clothing. He decides to take her to Paris and show her what modeling's all about. The elegant musical score features classic Gershwin. ♫Let's Kiss and Make Up; He Loves and She Loves; Funny Face; How Long Has This Been Going On?; Clap Yo' Hands; S'Wonderful; Bonjour Paris; On How To Be Lovely; Marche Funebre. 103m/C VHS, DVD . Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thompson, Suzy Parker; D: Stanley Donen; M: Ira Gershwin.

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