Funny Face (1957)
(9 Images)
Funny Face (USA 1957, Stanley Donen).
Credit: Images courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
HDR photographs by Barbara Flueckiger.
Contemporary Reception:
Anonymous (1957): It’s News… In Hollywood. In: Photoplay, 51,5, May, pp. 56–57, on p. 57. View Quote
Crowther, Bosley (1957): Screen. Funny Face Brings Spring to Music Hall. In: The New York Times, Mar., p. 16. View Quote
Full text on The New York Times website. View Link
Kane, Sherwin (1957): Funny Face. In: Motion Picture Daily, 81,30, Mar., p. 8 and p. 12. View Quote
Goldwyn, Samuel (1957): Letter to Mr. Barney Balaban. In: Motion Picture Daily, 81,47, Mar., p. 3. View Quote
Selected Analyses:
Bourget, Jean-Loup (1995): Esthétiques du Technicolor. In: Jacques Aumont (ed.): La couleur au cinéma. Mailand: Mazzotta, pp. 110–119, on p. 117. (in French) View Quote
Krämer, Peter (2000): ‘A cutie with more than beauty’. Audrey Hepburn, the Hollywood Musical and Funny Face. In: Bill Marshall; Robynn Stilwell (eds.): Musicals. Hollywood and Beyond. Exeter: Intellect.
Marschall, Susanne ([2005] 2009): Farbe im Kino. Marburg: Schüren, pp. 323–324. (in German)
Penning, Lars (1990): Die Farbgestaltung in Funny Face (Stanley Donen, USA 1957). In: Hans J. Wulff (ed.): 2. Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium. Münster: MAkS, pp. 65–75, on pp. 67–73. (in German) View Quote