Cabaret Cinema: Funny Face with Joan Juliet Buck

In a score liberally sprinkled with Gershwin tunes, a Richard Avedon-type photographer (Astaire) and a hard-nosed magazine publisher (Thompson) stumble upon a dowdy shop clerk (Hepburn) who they try to transform into the glamor girl of the year. To do that, they have to persuade her to go to Paris.

Remarks by writer and actress Joan Juliet Buck, who was editor-in-chief of French Vogue from 1994-2001, the only American ever to have edited a French magazine.