Funny Face

Funny Face centres on Jo Stockton, a shy clerk in a Greenwich Village bookshop whose life changes when a fashion photographer, Dick Avery, spots her and decides she is exactly the new face his magazine needs. The editor of the magazine, Maggie Prescott, wants a woman who stands out from the usual model, and Dick talks Jo into travelling to Paris for a shoot and a couturier's collection. Jo agrees largely because the city is home to Professor Emile Flostre, a philosopher whose ideas about empathy she admires, and the trip sets up a clash between Dick's romantic interest and the professor's hold on her attention.

Stanley Donen directed the film, the fifth of the sixteen features listed for him, following Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and preceding The Pajama Game. Leonard Gershe wrote the screenplay and Roger Edens produced it for Paramount. Audrey Hepburn plays Jo, Fred Astaire plays Dick, and Kay Thompson plays Maggie Prescott, with Michel Auclair as Flostre and Robert Flemyng and Dovima among a credited cast of thirty.

The film, released in February 1957, draws on songs by George and Ira Gershwin and runs 103 minutes. On IMDb it holds a critics' rating of 7.8/10 from forty reviews, while on TMDB it sits at 7/10 from 753 votes, indicating solid approval from both reviewers and a smaller general audience.