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Behind the scenes: Funny Face

Evocative shots that take us back to Paris in 1956, where Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire are filming on location for the musical romance Funny Face – back in cinemas from 28 February.

25 February 2014

Audrey Hepburn on location for Funny Face (1957) in a perfectly accessorised yellow print dress
Contact print showing Hepburn dancing. Hepburn plays a Greenwich Village bookshop clerk who is discovered by style photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) and whisked off to Paris on a fashion shoot
Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn at the Eiffel Tower, where the climax to the song ‘Bonjour Paris’ was filmed
Kay Thompson (who plays magazine editor Maggie Prescott), Astaire and Hepburn dancing underneath the Eiffel Tower
Astaire and Hepburn chat on the set for a boho Parisian café
Makeup artist Wally Westmore applies Hepburn’s mascara. He was known to separate each of her eyelashes with a sewing pin to look more defined on camera. Westmore also worked with Hepburn on Roman Holiday (1953) and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Hepburn and Astaire chat over coffee
Hepburn and Astaire on location at the Eiffel Tower
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