Still my favourite Audrey Hepburn. Wish we had more female leads that were like her today. What a movie star. So elegant. A True ballerina always.

Songs: "Funny Face" (Astaire, reprized Astaire), "'S Wonderful" (chorus, reprized Astaire and Hepburn), "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (Hepburn), "Let's Kiss and Make Up" (Astaire), "Clap Yo' Hands" (Astaire, Thompson), "He Loves and She Loves" (Astaire), — all music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin. "Think Pink" (Thompson), "Bonjour Paris!" (Astaire, Thompson, Hepburn), "On How To Be Lovely" (Hepburn, Thompson), bridge for "Clap Yo Hands", — all music by Roger Edens, lyrics by Leonard Gershe. "Marche Funebre" (Slifer), music by Roger Edens, lyrics by Lela Simone. "Bullfight Dance", music by Alexander Courage. "Clap Yo' Hands", dance music by Skip Martin. "Basal Matabolism", music by Alexander Courage. Music directed, adapted and conducted by Adolph Deutsch. Choreography: Eugene Loring, Fred Astaire. Songs staged by Stanley Donen. Dance assistants: Dave Robel, Pat Denise. Music arrangements and orchestrations: Conrad Salinger, Mason Van Cleave, Alexander Courage, Skip Martin. Copyright 1957 by Paramount Pictures Corp. New York opening at the Radio City Music Hall: 28 March 1957. U.S. release: April 1957. U.K. release: 27 May 1957. Australian release: 15 August 1957. Sydney opening at the Prince Edward: 16 August 1957 (ran six weeks). 9,302 feet. 103 minutes. SYNOPSIS: Fashion photographer introduces bookshop beatnik into the world of Parisian couture. NOTES: Here's a breakdown of the orchestrations. Van Cleave did "Bonjour Paris!" Courage handled "Let's Kiss and Make Up", Salinger was assigned "He Loves and She Loves", Skip Martin worked on "Clap Yo' Hands", Deutsch did both "Think Pink" and "On How To Be Lovely". Background music was orchestrated by Deutsch, Courage and Van Cleave. Nominated for the following Academy Awards: Best Original screenplay (won by Designing Woman), Best Cinematography (won by The Bridge on the River Kwai), Best Art Direction (won by Sayonara), Best Costumes (won by Les Girls). One of Bosley Crowther's Ten Best Pictures of 1957. Sixth on the National Board of Review's list. Special Citation for "photographic innovations" from the National Board of Review.COMMENT: Top-billed Audrey Hepburn is perfectly cast in this inventively staged and most stylishly photographed musical. Fred is no slacker either, and it's good to see Kay Thompson in such an excellent role (her only previous film appearance was a brief singing spot with her radio choir in "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round" way back in 1937). Following Hollywood custom, one of France's top stars, Michel Auclair, is inappropriately dubbed (though he does get to speak his own opening lines in French), whilst normally reliable British "other man" Robert Flemyng is likewise inexplicably miscast as a Parisian fashion designer. However, Dovima is fine as a Bronx- accented model, and keen fans will have no trouble recognizing Suzy Parker in the "Think Pink" number. OTHER VIEWS: Actually lensed on real Paris locations with Fred and company dancing through the main streets and boulevards and on to the Eiffel Tower, Funny Face is both a visual and musical treat. The story is engaging too, with wit and satire directed against the cleverly contrasted worlds of high fashion and beatnik intellectualism. True the romantic complication with a bearded Michel Auclair is rather old- hat. But with songs like these, who's complaining? Fred, Audrey and Kay are all in marvelous form, production values are appropriately super-glossy, and the photography contrives to be amusing and clever in its own right. Funny Face has so many stylish elements, I'm surprised it has never been adopted as a cult movie. Perhaps its expose of the phony, pretentious claptrap underlying undergraduate philosophy strikes too close to home. Whatever, Funny Face is still an absolute delight. — JHR writing as George Addison.

I am a fan of Audrey Hepburn, but generally hate musicals (though there are a few exceptions - The Sound of Music, Across the Universe, amongst others), so this was always going to be interesting. Turns out even Audrey Hepburn can't overcome a lame plot, dull music, unimaginative direction and a unconvincing and wooden leading actor. More than boring, this film is irritating. The campy pretentiousness of the setting, the irritating fashion people, the songs which hardly have a tune. It all just seems so contrived and lame.Worst of all, Audrey Hepburn gets made to look bad thanks to the movie. Her character is overly nerdy, and the songs just don't suit her.A very bitter disappointment.

FUNNY FACE is notable as a colourful '50s-era music teaming the talents of two of the best-known stars of all time, Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn. In this film, whose story feels like an earlier version of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, Astaire and Hepburn consummate a May-December relationship when they're brought together by chance.Hepburn stars as one of those unbelievable mousy characters - here a bookshop assistant - who's transformed into an ultra-glamorous model when she goes to Paris for a photo shoot. Astaire is the top-of-his-game photographer, and much of the film gets by on their easy charm.Of course, there are there requisite song-and-dance numbers to enjoy, and a storyline that's never too heavy or too much. In all, it's just right, and old hand Stanley Donen brings plenty to the production with his assured direction. A very good-natured and pleasing effort.