Domestic Film: Funny Face
In Funny Face, Fred Astaire plays a fashion photographer roughly based on Richard Avedon. Bored with the usual models he works with, he visits a Greenwich village bookstore and discovers the next fashion icon in the store’s quirky salesgirl, played by Audrey Hepburn, whom he whisks off to Paris for a glamorous on-location shoot. Romance blossoms when they start singing and dancing to songs written by George and Ira Gershwin. (1957, cc, 103 minutes.)