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Directed by: Stanley Donen
The Debute of Funny Face!
*On initial release, Funny Face was a box office disappointment and failed to break even. However, in 1964, when My Fair Lady (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.
Why is Funny Face considered a classic?
*Before The Devil Wears Prada came Funny Face. A different time, a different legend: that of a philosophical Cinderella in 1950s Paris, played by Audrey Hepburn. In Stanley Donen’s musical comedy, one of the last true examples of the classic Hollywood musical, Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn), a bookseller from Greenwich Village with a love of the Parisian “empathicalist” philosophy unwittingly becomes the new face of Quality, an American fashion magazine, under the initiative of its influential editor Maggie Prescott and photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire). In picturesque post-war Paris, dancing to George and Ira Gershwin, Jo and Dick inevitably fall in love and reconcile their two, once alien universes.
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Directed by: Stanley Donen
The Debute of Funny Face!
*On initial release, Funny Face was a box office disappointment and failed to break even. However, in 1964, when My Fair Lady (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.
Why is Funny Face considered a classic?
*Before The Devil Wears Prada came Funny Face. A different time, a different legend: that of a philosophical Cinderella in 1950s Paris, played by Audrey Hepburn. In Stanley Donen’s musical comedy, one of the last true examples of the classic Hollywood musical, Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn), a bookseller from Greenwich Village with a love of the Parisian “empathicalist” philosophy unwittingly becomes the new face of Quality, an American fashion magazine, under the initiative of its influential editor Maggie Prescott and photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire). In picturesque post-war Paris, dancing to George and Ira Gershwin, Jo and Dick inevitably fall in love and reconcile their two, once alien universes.
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*On initial release, Funny Face was a box office disappointment and failed to break even. However, in 1964, when My Fair Lady (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.
Why is Funny Face considered a classic?
*Before The Devil Wears Prada came Funny Face. A different time, a different legend: that of a philosophical Cinderella in 1950s Paris, played by Audrey Hepburn. In Stanley Donen’s musical comedy, one of the last true examples of the classic Hollywood musical, Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn), a bookseller from Greenwich Village with a love of the Parisian “empathicalist” philosophy unwittingly becomes the new face of Quality, an American fashion magazine, under the initiative of its influential editor Maggie Prescott and photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire). In picturesque post-war Paris, dancing to George and Ira Gershwin, Jo and Dick inevitably fall in love and reconcile their two, once alien universes.
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Why is Funny Face considered a classic?
*Before The Devil Wears Prada came Funny Face. A different time, a different legend: that of a philosophical Cinderella in 1950s Paris, played by Audrey Hepburn. In Stanley Donen’s musical comedy, one of the last true examples of the classic Hollywood musical, Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn), a bookseller from Greenwich Village with a love of the Parisian “empathicalist” philosophy unwittingly becomes the new face of Quality, an American fashion magazine, under the initiative of its influential editor Maggie Prescott and photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire). In picturesque post-war Paris, dancing to George and Ira Gershwin, Jo and Dick inevitably fall in love and reconcile their two, once alien universes.
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