| Record Number |
806333 |
| Title |
Funny face [videorecording]. |
| Edition |
Special collector's edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
Australia : Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 DVD-video (approximately 99 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Series |
Audrey Hepburn collection |
| Contents note |
Special features: Fashion's greatest muse -- Parisian dreams -- Theatrical trailer -- Paramount in the 50's -- Photo gallery. |
| Originally produced as motion picture in 1956. |
| Creation Note |
Written by Leonard Gershe ; produced by Roger Edens ; directed by Stanley Donen. |
| Performer note |
Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michael Auclair, Robert Flemyng. |
| Summary Note |
This filmed version of the 1927 George and Ira Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's visual consultant), who is sent out by his female boss Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) to find a new face. It doesn't take Dick long to discover Jo (Audrey Hepburn, who does her own singing), an owlish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk. Acting as Pygmalion to Jo's Galatea, Dick whisks the wide-eyed girl off to Paris and transforms her into the fashion world's hottest model. Along the way, he falls in love with Jo, and works overtime to wean her away from such phony-baloney intellectuals as Professor Emile Flostre (Michel Auclair). |
| Target audience note |
G. |
| Language note |
In English, French, German, Italian and Castilian Spanish. Subtitles in English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Castilian Spanish and Swedish. English captions for the hearing impaired. |
| Subject |
Fashion photography -- Drama |
| Models (Persons) -- France -- Paris -- Drama |
| Clerks (Retail trade) -- Drama |
| Motion pictures, American |
| Musical films |
| Feature films |
| Musical films |
| Added Author |
Edens, Roger, 1905-1970 producer. |
| Donen, Stanley, 1924- director. |
| Gershe, Leonard screenwriter. |
| Hepburn, Audrey, 1929-1993 actor. |
| Astaire, Fred actor. |
| Thompson, Kay, 1909-1998 actor. |
| Corporate Author |
Paramount Pictures production company |
| Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia distributor |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F FUNN |
