In honor of Audrey Hepburn’s birthday, I decided to watch and review Funny Face. Funny Face follows a bookshop owner, Jo (Hepburn), on her journey of love and discovery with photographer Dick (Fred Astaire) as he takes her around Paris and turns her into a fashion model. And all this unfolds in the form of a musical. Initially, Jo was resistant to becoming a model for Kay Thompson’s Maggie Prescott; however, Dick manages to smooth talk his way into convincing her to take a chance and believe in him. On the promise that she would get to meet her philosophical idol in Paris, she agreed to go.
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