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* AffectionateParody: Of 1950s high-fashion magazines, especially ''Vogue'' and ''Harper's Bazaar'' (both of which are even mentioned by name), and fashion photographers. This produces a CrowningMomentOfFunny early in the film, when Maggie and her entourage (including Dick) totally disrupt the Greenwich Village bookshop where Jo works for a magazine shoot.

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* AffectionateParody: Of 1950s high-fashion magazines, especially ''Vogue'' and ''Harper's Bazaar'' (both of which are even mentioned by name), and fashion photographers. This produces a CrowningMomentOfFunny SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} early in the film, when Maggie and her entourage (including Dick) totally disrupt the Greenwich Village bookshop where Jo works for a magazine shoot.

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Dick notices Jo in one of the photographs and the pair decide to hire her as a model, which Jo only agrees to so she can take a trip to Paris, but her snobbish attitude softens over the film as she starts to enjoy the company of the handsome photographer.

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Dick notices Jo in one of the photographs and the pair decide to hire her as a model, which Jo only agrees to so she can take a trip to Paris, Paris to meet a philosopher whose work she admires, but her snobbish attitude softens over the film as she starts to enjoy the company of the handsome photographer.



* AffectionateParody: Of 1950s high-fashion magazines, especially ''Vogue'' and ''Harper's Bazaar,'' and fashion photographers. This produces a CrowningMomentOfFunny early in the film, when Fred Astaire (playing the fashion photographer) and his crew totally disrupt Jo Stockton's [Hepburn] Greenwich Village bookshop for a magazine shoot.

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* AffectionateParody: Of 1950s high-fashion magazines, especially ''Vogue'' and ''Harper's Bazaar,'' Bazaar'' (both of which are even mentioned by name), and fashion photographers. This produces a CrowningMomentOfFunny early in the film, when Fred Astaire (playing the fashion photographer) Maggie and his crew her entourage (including Dick) totally disrupt Jo Stockton's [Hepburn] the Greenwich Village bookshop where Jo works for a magazine shoot.shoot.
* AllMenArePerverts: Discussed when Dick gets jealous of Jo with Professor Flostre: "He's a philosopher, but he's also a man." Dick winds up being proven right when Flostre manages to be alone with Jo and starts trying to get grabby with her.



** Subverted with Marion, the model who is fruitlessly ''trying'' to look brainy in the bookstore shoot.

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** Subverted Averted with Marion, the model who is fruitlessly ''trying'' to look brainy in the bookstore shoot.shoot. The only thing she can read are pulp sci-fi comics.


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* MeaningfulEcho: Jo subscribes to a philosophical current called "empathicism", which as the name implies, revolves around empathy. First mentioned in a conversation with Dick while they are trying to tidy up the bookstore, it becomes a bit of a theme at the climax with Maggie and her staff mobilizing to get Jo and Dick back together.


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* RaceForYourLove: Subverted; it only ''appears'' Jo does this at the end of the fashion show toward the end of the film, when all she knows is that Dick will be taking the next plane to New York; she had actually gone to the garden by the small church of the wedding dress shoot, which is where they first realized their feelings for each other.
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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Kay Thompson and Creator/FredAstaire, and directed by Stanley Donen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers''), based InNameOnly on a 1927 Broadway musical that also starred Fred Astaire.

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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Kay Thompson and Creator/FredAstaire, and directed by Stanley Donen (''SinginInTheRain'' (''Film/SinginInTheRain'' and ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers''), based InNameOnly on a 1927 Broadway musical that also starred Fred Astaire.
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* PimpedOutDress: Numerous exampless on of splendid late-1950s ''haute couture'', and Creator/AudreyHepburn[='=]s character is dressed, when we first see her, as the chic Hollywood version of a beatnik. In fact, this movie was one of the films that established Hepburn as a style icon.

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* PimpedOutDress: Numerous exampless examples on of splendid late-1950s ''haute couture'', couture,'' and Creator/AudreyHepburn[='=]s character is dressed, when we first see her, as the chic Hollywood version of a beatnik. In fact, this movie was one of the films that established Hepburn as a style icon.
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Maggie Prescott (Thompson) is fashion editor looking for the next big thing - trying to find something intelligent and beautiful. She and photographer Dick Avery (Astaire) search for models who "think as well as they look". They decide to take over a village bookstore to use for a photoshot, much to salegirl Jo Stockton's (Hepburn) dismay as the shop is left in a total mess.

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Maggie Prescott (Thompson) is fashion editor looking for the next big thing - trying to find something intelligent and beautiful. She and photographer Dick Avery (Astaire) search for models who "think as well as they look". look." They decide to take over a village bookstore to use for a photoshot, much to salegirl Jo Stockton's (Hepburn) dismay as the shop is left in a total mess.



* AffectionateParody: Of 1950s high-fashion magazines, especially ''Vogue'' and ''Harper's Bazaar'', and fashion photographers. This produces a CrowningMomentOfFunny early in the film, when Fred Astaire (playing the fashion photographer) and his crew totally disrupt Jo Stockton's [Hepburn] Greenwich Village bookshop for a magazine shoot.

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* AffectionateParody: Of 1950s high-fashion magazines, especially ''Vogue'' and ''Harper's Bazaar'', Bazaar,'' and fashion photographers. This produces a CrowningMomentOfFunny early in the film, when Fred Astaire (playing the fashion photographer) and his crew totally disrupt Jo Stockton's [Hepburn] Greenwich Village bookshop for a magazine shoot.



* MayDecemberRomance: While ages aren't directly stated for the ''characters'', Audrey was 30 years younger than Fred.

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* MayDecemberRomance: While ages aren't directly stated for the ''characters'', ''characters,'' Audrey was 30 years younger than Fred.
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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Kay Thompson and Creator/FredAstaire, and directed by Stanley Donen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'').

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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Kay Thompson and Creator/FredAstaire, and directed by Stanley Donen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'').
''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers''), based InNameOnly on a 1927 Broadway musical that also starred Fred Astaire.
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Dick notices Jo in one of the photographs and the pair decide to hire her as a model, which Jo only agrees to so she take the trip to Paris, but her snobbish attitude softens over the film as she starts to enjoy the company of the handsome photographer.

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Dick notices Jo in one of the photographs and the pair decide to hire her as a model, which Jo only agrees to so she can take the a trip to Paris, but her snobbish attitude softens over the film as she starts to enjoy the company of the handsome photographer.
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* {{Beatnik}}s

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* {{Beatnik}}s{{Beatnik}}s: In all the places where Jo hangs out.



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* FashionMagazineFashionMagazine: The backdrop.



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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmedNoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Dick Avery is based on photographer Richard Avedon, who served as a creative consultant on the film and actually took the photographs featured in it.



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* SheCleansUpNicelySheCleansUpNicely: The whole premise.

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Dick notices Jo in one of the photographs and the pair decide to hire her as a model, which Jo only agrees to so she take the trip to Paris but her snobbish attitude softens over the film as she starts to enjoy the company of the handsome photographer.

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Dick notices Jo in one of the photographs and the pair decide to hire her as a model, which Jo only agrees to so she take the trip to Paris Paris, but her snobbish attitude softens over the film as she starts to enjoy the company of the handsome photographer.


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** Subverted with Marion, the model who is fruitlessly ''trying'' to look brainy in the bookstore shoot.



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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Creator/KayThompson and Creator/FredAstaire, and directed by Creator/StanleyDonen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'').

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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Creator/KayThompson Kay Thompson and Creator/FredAstaire, and directed by Creator/StanleyDonen Stanley Donen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'').



* InNameOnly: The film shares a title, four songs (not including the originally CutSong), music composers (Music/{{George| Gershwin}} and Ira Gershwin), and [[Creator/FredAstaire the leading man]] with the original stage musical. The plot, however, has nothing to do with it.



* PimpedOutDress: Numerous examples of splendid late-1950s ''haute couture'', and Creator/AudreyHepburn[='=]s character is dressed, when we first see her, as the chic Hollywood version of a beatnik. In fact, this movie was one of the films that established Hepburn as a style icon.

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* PimpedOutDress: Numerous examples exampless on of splendid late-1950s ''haute couture'', and Creator/AudreyHepburn[='=]s character is dressed, when we first see her, as the chic Hollywood version of a beatnik. In fact, this movie was one of the films that established Hepburn as a style icon.


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* RemakeCameo: Creator/FredAstaire starred in the original stage version of ''Funny Face'' in [[TheTwenties 30 years prior.]] The show went through numerous rewrites and a name change (from ''Smarty''), and the film version [[InNameOnly has a completely different plot]].
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* MayDecemberRomance: While ages aren't directly stated, Audrey was 30 years younger than Fred.

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* MayDecemberRomance: While ages aren't directly stated, stated for the ''characters'', Audrey was 30 years younger than Fred.
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* MayDecemberRomance: While ages aren't directly stated, Audrey was 30 years younger than Fred.

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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Kay Thompson and FredAstaire, and directed by Stanley Donen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'').

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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Kay Thompson Creator/KayThompson and FredAstaire, Creator/FredAstaire, and directed by Stanley Donen Creator/StanleyDonen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'').

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* BrainyBrunette: Jo's EstablishingCharacterMoment
* TheCameo: Well-known (at the time) 1950s fashion models Dovima and Suzy Parker (who herself later became an actress)

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* BrainyBrunette: Jo's EstablishingCharacterMoment
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* HollywoodNerd: Jo Stockton. Type 2, obviously, since this is Creator/AudreyHepburn

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* HollywoodNerd: Jo Stockton. Type 2, obviously, since this is Creator/AudreyHepburnCreator/AudreyHepburn.
* ImNotPretty: Jo tells Dick she couldn't possibly be a model, because her face looks funny.
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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Kay Thompson and FredAstaire, and directed by Stanley Donen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'').

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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring Creator/AudreyHepburn, Kay Thompson and FredAstaire, and directed by Stanley Donen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'').
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* TheCameo: Well-known (at the time) 1950s fashion models Dovima and Suzy Parker (who herself later became an actress)



* HeyItsThatGuy: Well-known (at the time) 1950s fashion models Dovima and Suzy Parker (who herself later became an actress) have cameos.
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* HollywoodNerd: Jo Stockton. Type 2, obviously, since this is AudreyHepburn
* PimpedOutDress: Numerous examples of splendid late-1950s ''haute couture'', and Audrey Hepburn's character is dressed, when we first see her, as the chic Hollywood version of a beatnik. In fact, this movie was one of the films that established Hepburn as a style icon.

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* HollywoodNerd: Jo Stockton. Type 2, obviously, since this is AudreyHepburn
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* PimpedOutDress: Numerous examples of splendid late-1950s ''haute couture'', and Audrey Hepburn's Creator/AudreyHepburn[='=]s character is dressed, when we first see her, as the chic Hollywood version of a beatnik. In fact, this movie was one of the films that established Hepburn as a style icon.
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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring AudreyHepburn, Kay Thompson and FredAstaire, and directed by Stanley Donen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'').

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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring AudreyHepburn, Creator/AudreyHepburn, Kay Thompson and FredAstaire, and directed by Stanley Donen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'').
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An iconic 1957 movie musical starring AudreyHepburn AudreyHepburn, Kay Thompson and Fred Astaire.FredAstaire, and directed by Stanley Donen (''SinginInTheRain'' and ''SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'').

Maggie Prescott (Thompson) is fashion editor looking for the next big thing - trying to find something intelligent and beautiful. She and photographer Dick Avery (Astaire) search for models who "think as well as they look". They decide to take over a village bookstore to use for a photoshot, much to salegirl Jo Stockton's (Hepburn) dismay as the shop is left in a total mess.

Dick notices Jo in one of the photographs and the pair decide to hire her as a model, which Jo only agrees to so she take the trip to Paris but her snobbish attitude softens over the film as she starts to enjoy the company of the handsome photographer.



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* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Well-known (at the time) 1950s fashion models Dovima and Suzy Parker (who herself later became an actress) have cameos.

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* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: HeyItsThatGuy: Well-known (at the time) 1950s fashion models Dovima and Suzy Parker (who herself later became an actress) have cameos.
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* AffectionateParody: Of 1950s high-fashion magazines, especially ''Vogue'' and ''Harper's Bazaar'', and fashion photographers. This produces a CrowningMomentOfFunny early in the film, when Fred Astaire (playing the fashion photographer) and his crew totally disrupt Jo Stafford's [Hepburn] Greenwich Village bookshop for a magazine shoot.

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* AffectionateParody: Of 1950s high-fashion magazines, especially ''Vogue'' and ''Harper's Bazaar'', and fashion photographers. This produces a CrowningMomentOfFunny early in the film, when Fred Astaire (playing the fashion photographer) and his crew totally disrupt Jo Stafford's Stockton's [Hepburn] Greenwich Village bookshop for a magazine shoot.
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* BrainyBrunette: Jo's EstablishingCharacterMoment
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** Later in the film, Dick and Maggie switch roles.
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* PowerTrio: Jo is Superego, Dick is Ego and Maggie is Id.
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* GorgeousPeriodDress: Numerous examples of splendid late-1950s ''haute couture'', and Audrey Hepburn's character is dressed, when we first see her, as the chic Hollywood version of a beatnik. In fact, this movie was one of the films that established Hepburn as a style icon.


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* PimpedOutDress: Numerous examples of splendid late-1950s ''haute couture'', and Audrey Hepburn's character is dressed, when we first see her, as the chic Hollywood version of a beatnik. In fact, this movie was one of the films that established Hepburn as a style icon.

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