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Fred Hepburn. Producer: Narco Wars. An award winning executive producer and showrunner with a track record of producing ambitious series and features for a global audience, Fred has delivered series to Hulu, Nat Geo, Discovery Networks, BBC, ITV, Channel Five and more. Whether it's archive led retrospective storytelling or access driven ...
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May 3, 2024 · Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire team up in the 1957 musical romantic comedy Funny Face, in which fashion photographer Dick Avery ( Astaire) meets the shy, but beautiful, Jo Stockton ( Hepburn) and convinces her to go Paris with him to become a model.
Although having the same title as the 1927 Broadway musical Funny Face by the Gershwin brothers, and featuring the same male star ( Fred Astaire ), the plot is completely different and only four of the songs from the stage musical are included. Alongside Astaire, the film stars Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson .
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- The movie's title and four of its songs came from George Gershwin's 1927 Broadway musical "Funny Face." Almost nothing was kept from the original -- not its farcical jewel-theft plot, nor most of its Gershwin score.
- The film's plot came from an unproduced show called "Wedding Bells," by Leonard Gershe, who was fictionalizing the love story between two of his famous friends.
- As in the film, the Avedon's marriage was a "Pygmalion" story of a celebrated photographer who transformed a bookish clerk into a reluctant model, then fell in love with his creation.
- Avedon himself was hired as the movie's visual consultant, and his photographs are seen in the opening segment and throughout the sequences set in Paris.
Mar 16, 2023 · An award winning executive producer and showrunner with a track record of developing and producing ambitious series and features for a global audience, Fred has delivered programmes to Hulu, Nat Geo, Discovery Networks, BBC, ITV, Channel Five and more.
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Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British [a] actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List .
Funny Face: Directed by Stanley Donen. With Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair. An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.
