A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
Costume
Givenchy's pink wedding dress—still breaking hearts 67 years later.
Cinematography
Paris as Technicolor fever dream; every frame a magazine spread.
Acting
Hepburn's goofy bookstore nerd is somehow more charming than her swan transformation.
Director
Stanley Donen
Audrey Hepburn
Jo Stockton
Fred Astaire
Dick Avery
Kay Thompson
Maggie Prescott
Michel Auclair
Prof. Emile Flostre
Robert Flemyng
Paul Duval
Dovima
Marion
Suzy Parker
Specialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)
Sunny Hartnett
Specialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)
Jean Del Val
Hairdresser
Virginia Gibson
Babs
Sue England
Laura
Ruta Lee
Lettie
Alex Gerry
Dovitch
Bess Flowers
Fashion Show Spectator
Iphigenie Castiglioni
Armande
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Givenchy designed Hepburn's entire wardrobe for this AND Breakfast at Tiffany's in the same year. The man was BUSY.
The 'Beatnik' subplot aged like milk—real Greenwich Village poets hated this sanitized caricature.
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