S'Wonderful! S'Marvelous! ...She's The Fairest Lady of All!
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
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Warm, classical in form, resolved and effortless.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20227/10
Despite the presence of Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, I think this film actually belongs to Kay Thompson. She plays really well as the 1950s version of Dame Anna Wintour in this amiable, if a little thinly spread, musical comedy. Infuriated by the rather drab quality of her latest "Quality" magazine, she determines to revamp the whole thing. In pink! A bookshop being used for a photo shoot by "Avery" (Astaire) provides the unlikely source for her new model - "Jo" (Hepburn) who is to the fashion industry what Herod was to babies. "Avery" is clever, though, and he offers a trade off that sees her do a shoot in Paris in return for a meeting with "Prof. Flostre" (Michel Auclair). What now ensues is all fairly predictable, a love triangle with "Jo" in the middle vacillating. George & Ira Gerschwin provided the musical numbers, and though they are very well staged, the film lacks a killer song. That said, Thompson is on super form as the no-nonsense boss, the dance numbers are colourful and energetic and finally, Hepburn has a lovely vivacity and enthusiasm to her performance - she takes to the musical numbers very much like a duck to water. Astaire isn't at his best, and Robert Flemy
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Cast
- Audrey HepburnJo Stockton
- Fred AstaireDick Avery
- Kay ThompsonMaggie Prescott
- Michel AuclairProf. Emile Flostre
- Robert FlemyngPaul Duval
- DovimaMarion
- Suzy ParkerSpecialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)
- Sunny HartnettSpecialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)
- Jean Del ValHairdresser
- Virginia GibsonBabs
Crew
- Stanley DonenDirector
- Leonard GersheWriter
- Ray JuneDirector of Photography
- George GershwinOriginal Music Composer
- Frank BrachtEditor
- Roger EdensProducer
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