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Funny Face is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. 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 ...
The original soundtrack to Funny Face has been remastered and reissued as an expanded 60th anniversary edition, with eight alternate tracks, including four featuring Thompson. Most of her work for MGM has been preserved and released on Rhino/Turner Classic Movies original soundtrack series, including little-known contributions she did for films ...
Funny Face is a 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith. When it opened on Broadway on November 22, 1927, as the first show performed in the newly built Alvin Theatre, it starred Fred Astaire and his sister Adele Astaire. It was in this show that Astaire first danced ...
The Palace of Versailles (/ v ɛər ˈ s aɪ, v ɜːr ˈ s aɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris, France.
Funny Face: Feb. 17, 1957 Paramount Dick Avery: Audrey Hepburn: Stanley Donen Ira Gershwin Leonard Gershe: The Ed Sullivan Show: Mar. 3, 1957 CBS Himself — — — — The Ed Sullivan Show: Apr. 7, 1957 CBS Himself — — — — Person to Person: June 7, 1957 CBS Himself — Franklin J. Schaffner — — Silk Stockings: July 18, 1957 MGM ...
Salle des Croisades, Versailles. The Salles des Croisades ("Hall of Crusades") is a set of rooms located in the north wing of the Palace of Versailles.. The rooms were created in the mid-19th century by King Louis-Philippe for his museum of French history, and opened in 1843, at a time when France was seized with enthusiasm with its historical past, and especially the Crusades period. [1]
The Versailles extravaganza, held in the palace’s Royal Opera (inaugurated for the 1770 wedding of Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin), was the brainchild of the intrepid public relations maven ...
The petit appartement de la reine (French: [pɛˈtit‿apaʁtəˈmɑ̃dəlaʁɛn]) is a suite of rooms in the Palace of Versailles.These rooms, situated behind the grand appartement de la reine, and which now open onto two interior courtyards, were the private domain of the queens of France, Maria Theresa of Spain, Marie Leszczyńska, and Marie Antoinette, as well as of Princess Marie ...