Funny Face 1957 123movies

Watch: Funny Face 1957 123movies, Full Movie Online – Maggie Prescott, the Editor-in-Chief of New York based Quality, a fashion magazine that sets trends i.e. leads instead of follows, has come up with her latest brainchild: to feature a model to be the Quality Woman, complete with successful Paris-based designer Paul Duval to devise a new collection inspired by her. The Quality Woman is not only to embody beauty, but also intellect. Against Maggie’s initial judgment, she relents to the vision of her head photographer Dick Avery in choosing Jo Stockton rather than one of their in-house models as the Quality Woman, Jo the clerk they met in an impromptu photo shoot they did against her will in the Greenwich Village bookstore where she works. The marks against Jo are not only that she isn’t a professional, but that she has what she even considers a funny looking face, something that Dick instead calls interesting. Jo, who abhors all that the world of fashion represents in she being an intellectual, ultimately agrees as the job would take her to Paris where she hopes to meet her idol, Professor Émile Flostre, the leading philosopher on the concept of empathicalism. But in Paris, the two worlds for Jo begin to collide in more ways than one, arguably the most important in she falling for Dick, his actions solely to get her to exude the emotions he wants for the photos..
Plot: A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 30,669
	88% | RottenTomatoes
	75/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 571 Popularity: 26.233 | TMDB

Reviews:

Think pink!
Stanley Donen’s “Funny Face” was one of the best musicals that came out of Paramount, a studio not known for that genre. The DVD format we watched recently seems to have been transferred with great care as the colors have a vibrant look, something that wasn’t the case with the technique used during that era that made colors fade.

The film owes its appeal to Audrey Hepburn, an actress not known for being a singer, or a dancer, but who had enough charm to make the movie her own. The pairing with the great Fred Astaire pays off well because Mr. Astaire was always an actor who had enough chemistry with his leading ladies. Ms. Hepburn’s costumes by Givenchy and the way she carries herself in them is one of the best assets about “Funny Face”.

The other surprise of the movie is Kay Thompson, who plays the magazine editor Maggie Prescott. Ms. Thompson makes an excellent contribution to the film as the no nonsense woman who ruled what the fashions of the day should be as shown in the pages of the magazine.

The songs of George Gershwin are complimented by the original music composed for the musical by Roger Edens, Adolph Deutsch and Leonard Gershe. The great cinematography of Ray June shows Paris at its best. Thanks to Stanley Donen all the elements feel into place and we were left with this musical that will delight audiences forever.

Fred Snaps! Audrey Crackles! Kay Pops!
This original musical comedy is not based upon the 1927 Broadway Gershwin musical that starred Fred and Adele Astaire on the stage. It has been updated to the 1950’s Greenwich Village where photographer Astaire and his merry models take over Audrey Hepburn’s book store (long before some computer devise ran most bookstores out of business), leaving her with a huge mess to clean up. Realizing his error, Astaire helps her, and realizes, he too can make her a model. This is sort of a “My Fair Lady”/”Pygmallion” of the modeling industry, with Astaire playing Henry Higgins to Audrey’s pre-“My Fair Lady” Eliza. Along with magazine editor Kay Thompson, the trio goes to Paris where Astaire and Rogers fall in love, she checks out the Latin Quarter, and the duo literally skate off into the sunset on a lily pad meant for two.

Some people question the pairing of Astaire and Hepburn, citing their almost 30 year age difference as a major problem. I concur that Astaire was way too young for Leslie Caron in the entertaining but overlong “Daddy Long Legs”, but his style fits much better with Audrey. Yes, the age difference is quite noticeable, but I don’t get that creepy feeling here that I did with the waif-like Caron. Unlike “My Fair Lady”, you get to hear Audrey sing here, and her voice fits her character. When she sings “How Long Has This Been Going On?”, you really feel for her. Ironically, when Ms. Hepburn passed away, it was this song that helped me celebrate her life, not “Moon River” (which she also sings in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”) or her dubbed songs in “My Fair Lady”. Seeing this years ago on a double bill at the Castro Theatre with “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, I was amused by the audience’s reaction to various un-“P.C.” remarks, particularly Astaire’s rather sexist remark that in a relationship, it is the man who makes the decisions.

But irregardless of that, this is still one of the loveliest musicals of the 1950’s, and try not to think “music video” when Kay Thompson (all in beige) pops up with her models to sing “Think Pink”, which by the way, she wouldn’t be caught dead in. Then, in a dark room, Astaire sings the title song to Hepburn, appropriately lit for the song. In Paris, the trio sings (separately) the lively “Bonjour Paris!” which has many great visuals of the city of lights. This is an example of real art deco in movies way past the age of Paramount’s classy romantic comedies and musicals. Astaire and Thompson get to become “hip” in an opium den when they break into “Clap Yo’ Hands”, one of the liveliest 1920’s songs still being sung 90 years later.

Acting wise, Thompson steals the show, playing a character that “Boosom Buddies”/”Two & a Half Men” supporting player Holland Taylor cut her teeth on. Stanley Donen, a veteran dancer and musical film director, turns a rather ordinary May/December romance into something special that remains as fresh today as it was 55 years ago.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director Stanley Donen
Writer Leonard Gershe
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 4 Oscars. 3 wins & 11 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera VistaVision Camera
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (horizontal)
Cinematographic Process VistaVision
Printed Film Format 35 mm