Archive for the ‘1957’ Category

Funny Face

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Actors: Hepburn, Audrey | Astaire, Fred | Thompson, Kay | Auclair, Michel | Flemyng, Robert | Dovima | Parker, Suzy | Hartnett, Sunny | Del Val, Jean | Gibson, Virginia | England, Sue | Lee, Ruta | Gerry, Alex | Castiglioni, Iphigenie | Booth, Nesdon
Directors: Donen, Stanley
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Fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton’s (Audrey Hepburn) dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo begins to enjoy the work and the company of her handsome photographer.

Witness for the Prosecution

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Power, Tyrone | Dietrich, Marlene | Laughton, Charles | Lanchester, Elsa | Williams, John | Daniell, Henry | Wolfe, Ian | Thatcher, Torin | Varden, Norma | O'Connor, Una | Compton, Francis | Tonge, Philip | Lee, Ruta | Farnum, Franklyn | Kenny, Colin
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Esteemed criminal lawyer Sir Wilfrid Robarts has just returned to practice after suffering a heart attack and is supposed to be on a diet of bland civil suits. But the case of Leonard Vole, a charmer accused of murdering a rich middle-aged widow, proves irresistible — particlularly when Sir Wilfrid meets the accused’s wife, the remarkable Christine Vole. Christine will appear as a witness: not the defense, but for the prosecution.

Love in the Afternoon

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Actors: Cooper, Gary | Hepburn, Audrey | Chevalier, Maurice | Doude, Van | McGiver, John | Bourdin, Lise | Bonifas
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Director Billy Wilder salutes his idol, Ernst Lubitsch, with this comedy about a middle-aged playboy fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.