Splashes of vivid color light the way through Stanley Donen's very modern musical. "Think pink!" commands Miss Prescott, head of Quality Woman fashion magazine, and American women obey--all except Jo (Audrey Hepburn), an intellectual young woman who tries to prevent Miss Prescott from staging a photo shoot in Jo's bookshop. Photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) sees something interesting in Jo's "funny face," and soon he's lured her to Paris to model during the day and discuss philosophy in smoky cafés at night. Modeling Givenchy clothes, Hepburn steals the color in every scene, and her funny face enchants all, including Dick and, unexpectedly, the dark and handsome philosophy master whose theories Jo adores.

The musical numbers are primarily duets--Jo and Dick glide together in each other's arms, Jo and Miss Prescott find unexpected solidarity in womanhood, and Dick and Miss Prescott cavort in the philosopher's salon--but the most engaging scene is when the three come to Paris, plead exhaustion to one another, then secretly race around the city, singing and dancing and reveling in being tourists.

Serious thinker Jo catches the interest of fashion photographer Dick Avery, who is seeking a natural and "funny" face to take with him to a Paris fashion show. Seeing the opportunity to bring her ideas on philosophy to the Left Bank cafés, Jo agrees to join him, but once in Paris, Dick's focused attention on her and the fairy-tale clothes inspire daydreams of love. Fred Astaire's silky dance moves and Audrey Hepburn's fresh, wistful spirit charge this modern-day Cinderella story with elegance and charm.

Shot on location in Paris, France.

MGM was originally supposed to produce this musical but handed it over to Paramount so that Audrey Hepburn could star.

Hepburn's Paris wardrobe was designed by Hubert de Givenchy.

Fred Astaire's character is supposedly based on photographer Richard Avedon.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 Mono - English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Materials:
Featurette - 1. The Fashion Designer and His Muse 2. Parisian Dreams 3. Paramount in the 50's - Retrospective Featurette
Theatrical Trailer
Text/Photo Gallery:
Photo Gallery

Fred Astaire: American actor/dancer, BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940
Audrey Hepburn: Actress, MY FAIR LADY
Suzy Parker: American Actress/Model
Michel Auclair: French Actor
Robert Flemyng: British Character Actor

Stanley Donen: Director/Producer/Choreographer

Roger Edens: American Composer

George Gershwin: American composer
Ira Gershwin: Lyricist
Roger Edens: American Composer
Leonard Gershe: Screenwriter/Playwright

Sam Comer: American Set Decorator
Ray Moyer: Set Decorator

Frank Bracht: Editor

3 stars out of 5 -- "FUNNY FACE is a visual treat. Technicolor set-pieces showcase the real stars of the picture -- Hepburn's lavish, Givenchy-designed dresses."