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American in Paris is in Black and White Ball as a turning point in his final act, which became a popular subject for dances and fundraisers. The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra held its first Black and White Ball in 1956, which continues as the premier annual dance today. In New York after the 1958 liberation of Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's with Audrey Hepburn, Capote held his famous Black and White own party at the Plaza, which was registered in 2006 the volume Deborah Davis, the Party of the Century.

And Funny Face influenced most influential U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Four years after the premiere of the film, first official trip to Paris, Jackie embodies the apotheosis who underwent Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face after his previous character is vividly remade. Dressed in a red dress with exquisite Givenchy, Hepburn appears in an all white scene in the Louvre from behind Victory of Samothrace, the arms lift the material around dressed like alien butterfly wings.

Like the character of Audrey, Jackie had also been a bookish intellectual at the Sorbonne in Paris before their wedding, 1952 Newport then Senator Jack Kennedy. As Audrey Hepburn, Jackie was also born in 1929 and 5'7 ½ "tall and thin, in several languages, arts and sports, soft spoken, and also a client of Audrey Hepburn's life-time friend and collaborator, the couturier Hubert Givenchy d '. Jackie refined many of his ideas and his own, under the tutelage of his mentor and friend, the editor of Vogue, Diana Vreeland, who later ran the MOMA Costume Institute at the request of Jackie. Vreeland Funny Face was portrayed in the character as Maggie Preston, editor of Quality magazine, played by Kay Thompson, who was known as the author of the Eloise series about a girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel. While a college student, Jackie Kennedy won Prix d'competition of Paris Vogue for the organization of an entire journal issue. In her presentation she pictured herself as "art director in the world." which somehow became the queen of Camelot.

Jackie was loved in France, the capital of the world like that. Two million French citizens who filled the streets waving American flags, shouting, "Viva Jacqui!" during the 1961 Kennedy official state visit there. The usually reserved President de Gaulle, the French press and the public were particularly rhapsodic in Jackie's televised interviews given in a perfect French. Funny Face said that Jackie was by nature. And Jackie color favored ceremonial white dress chosen for its ethereal opening, closed, not American in Paris and Funny Face with the woman is wearing dress with white tulle gowns waltzing off into the arms of her prince, Hepburn with the wedding gown designed increasingly chic.

Art, music, dance, awards:

American in Paris, Funny Face-picture uses both eyes burst, is alive and art and design highlights of Gershwin songbooks. The male and female protagonists in each film began its first run at the ball, instead of singing or acting. At 39 years old, Gene Kelly, asked 19-year-old dancer Leslie Caron for his first film as a love interest in the United States in Paris. And 57 years, Fred Astaire teamed up with then 27-year-old Audrey Hepburn as a condition of accepting his role. Audrey had studied dance since childhood, holding fervently to the dreams of a career in ballet. After World War II, when she and her mother fled to Holland in London, which was a small paper ball that won a screen test for Wilder Willy Roman Holiday with Gregory Peck. Hepburn won an Oscar as Best Actress for Roman Holiday in 1953, four years before filming Funny Face, and the same year he won a Tony for the role of Gigi on Broadway, also after being spied on by accident, this time crossing a hotel lobby in the south of France.Author, Collette, perfected in the Hepburn and shouted: "There's my Gigi! As Willy Wilder said of Audrey Hepburn," God kissed her on the cheek and she was there. "

Funny Face won an Oscar for Best Art Direction, Cinematography, Costumes by Givenchy, and original screenplay by Alan Lerner (who often teamed up with his longtime collaborator Frederick Lowe term for writing hits such as Gigi, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon and Camelot, which of course became synonymous with the Kennedy administration.) plus a Director's Guild Award for outstanding achievement by director Stanley Donen, choreographer as well (and later directed Gene Kelly in Singing in the rain, and Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant in Charade together, which Donen said there never was a most charming couple in film history.) Funny Face also won a Golden Palm at Cannes. And a Laurel Award from the Writer's Guild of America for Best Written American Musical.

American in Paris was nominated for eight Oscars and received six, including Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Picture and Best Director, a Golden Globe for best actor, Gene Kelly. In addition, Kelly received his only Oscar, as an honorary award that year for "versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography." The film also won an Oscar for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Music Score, Best Screenplay, Score and Screenplay and Best Editing,

American in Paris '18-minute phantasmagoria final costs half a million-to produce, making it one of the dance pieces longer and more expensive in the history of cinema. Producer Arthur Freed was the famous Tsar of MGM musicals, and then brought the genius of Vincent Minnelli Broadway to direct some of the best movies of the 20th century, including the United States in Paris, where many scenes echo the staging Minnelli, as well as others such as Meet Me in St.. Louis, Kismet, Brigadoon, and Gigi.

The differences of tone in the two films is that Funny Face is the most clever, more sophisticated film, with a more compelling argument he has with repeated viewings. Astaire and Hepburn were much more elegant, clever and subtle. Gene Kelly himself said that Astaire was the more aristocratic dancer and his dance reflects their own experience in athletics and gymnastics, in addition to his Everyman Pal Joey person. Astaire called Cary Grant of dance, his Marlon Brando. Kelly designed for a different look at America. Astaire, and Hepburn were European at heart. Ironically, Leslie Caron, while France itself, much like America lush echoes Kelly.

The wardrobe in Funny Face were hands down superior. The iconic image of Audrey Hepburn is still no date, fifty years later. In fact, director Stanley Donen Audrey Hepburn said it was much more about how to act or dance. One of the rare disagreements with any director Audrey came when Donen insisted on wearing socks with white skin tight black pants and sweater in the number of his solo dance in the beatnik club Paris. She began to mourn for fear of white socks that "break the line." Hepburn spoke of the importance of the figure and that clothing should be a sleeker by vessel containing the flower. The idea of the white socks he thought was ruined, but later she admitted she had worked.

Arthur Freed at MGM acquired the title of United States in Paris, Ira Gershwin. It was from one of three of the symphonies of George Gershwin, (the other two were Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue) and became the title of the song.Tragically, the prolific musical genius George died young in 1937 at age 38 after surgery for a brain tumor to see one of his symphonies make it an important film.

Funny Face's Marketing Snafu

Hepburn had just completed King Vidor's War and Peace (1956) and wanted something light as Roman Holiday (1953) or Sabrina (1954). She was in Paris when he first received the sequence of funny face. Her first husband, Mel Ferrer, said that overall, took three days to decide, but read and accepted the draft Donen, which was originally called the wedding day, in two hours. His mother said it was Funny Face "Audrey, through all the way" while Film Music Magazine called Funny Face "More directorially dazzling of all American movies," and Rex Reed said it was the "best fashion ever recorded in the film. " However, the marketing poster project not anything like that.

American in Paris had superior film posters. Funny Face posters not two ways. First, were varied and thus never built up a strong brand 'single' in the public mind which aired the story memorable at a glance. Secondly, it was a wonderful film of colors but most of the poster images were muddy. American film Audrey Hepburn was the first non-gross in the top ten films in the year of its launch. For many movie lovers' titles: "Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's, evoke different images, while not Funny Face.

For me, An American in Paris is based on the extravagance, and seems bigger for his showmanship, but Funny Face is only ten minutes shorter and well knit. And while the budgets for both films were similar, many American in Paris scenes were shot on stage. Funny Face, filmed mostly in place, maintains an authenticity that makes watching it is a pleasure, again and again.

I can see the metamorphosis of Hepburn's character, forgetting that it was the girl in n***-occupied Holland, he saw his family shattered, in addition, his beautiful home in ruins, taken out and shot his uncle, who was killed in and there was hunger in the flower bulbs. He had been taken by a guard armed with machine gun and start line of a bus to a labor camp, and, fortunately, was separated. As a child he helped the resistance of the Dutch World War II, grew into a great humanitarian, an ambassador for UNICEF, and my favorite actress.

A fighter strips to the barest essentials, the essence. Audrey Hepburn's childhood was a struggle to survive the horrors of war. As Hubert d 'Givenchy, said, became "a very precise person," and it shows in their actions, that always conveys the essence.

For me, Funny Face epitomizes the charm, magic, beauty and the idea that when we open our eyes to things eternal, everything changes.

It seems a maximum value which leads me to nice places. Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face. One of my favorite movies. And that's a wrap.

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