#vintage musicals

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"THE FULL SKIRT GIVES THE DRESS A FLOATY AND PLAYFUL NATURE, WHILE THE DROPPED WAIST..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on classic film actress Audrey Hepburn in the Givenchy wedding dress that her character Jo Stockton wore in the 1957 romantic comedy/musical "Funny Face." The dress is a white ballerina-length wedding gown featuring a full skirt, a dropped waist, and a tight bodice.

"Who better to take fashion inspiration from than the icon herself, Audrey Hepburn? She looks playful, yet elegant and refined in this Givenchy ballerina length dress.

Although Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn) was a heartbroken model when she first put on the Givenchy short tulle wedding dress in "Funny Face" (1957), her happy ending came in style as she wore the dress while dancing with Fred Astaire.

The full skirt gives the dress a floaty and playful nature, while the dropped waist really shows off a petit waist. The bodice is topped off with a Sabrina neckline, also known as a boat or bateau neckline. Givenchy often chose this neckline for Hepburn specifically as it showed off her prominent collar bones."

-- OCCASIONAL ON WEST STREET, "Going to the Movies for Wedding Inspiration: 12 Iconic Wedding Dresses from the Silver Screen"

Sources: www.occasionsbridal.co.uk/going-to-the-movies-for-wedding-inspiration, X, & Business Insider.

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Gene Kelly (director) rehearsing Pat Suzuki for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song, 1958.

Photo: Friedman-Abeles via NYPL

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from 1980

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kate bush featured on top pop (tv), march 1978 ꩜

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Shelley Duvall, 1970s

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Whimsical guitars

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susan sarandon in "the rocky horror picture show", 1975

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kate bush photographed by john carder bush — from the book kate: inside the rainbow

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NO AUDREY LIKE "BEATNIK AUDREY" -- ALL THE RIGHT MOVES AND ALL THAT JAZZ.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the late, great Audrey Hepburn (as Jo Stockton) donning her "Basal Metabolism dance sequence" outfit, a.k.a., "Beatnik Audrey," for promotional photos of the 1957 Paramount production "Funny Face," Paris, France, c. 1956.

"...the "Funny Face" outfit that really cemented Hepburn’s fashion muse status was far simpler: black cigarette pants, flats, and a black polo neck so widely imitated it actually warrants that overused word, iconic.  “Banish the black!” editrix Prescott decreed in the film. Thanks to Audrey and her polo neck, nobody listened to her."

-- BRITISH VOGUE, "How "Funny Face," Became The Ultimate Fashion Reference, by Kerry McDermot, March 2021 issue

Sources: Pinterest, British Vogue, Shutterstock, & http://retroactivecritique.blogspot.com/2013/02/from-white-socks-to-rhinestone-glove.html.

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My Fair Lady opened at the Mark Hellinger Theater on March 15, 1956. It was an immediate smash. "A triumph" said the Post's Richard Watts. "Miraculous," proclaimed the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr. "It has everything," said William Hawkins in the World-Telegram. Robert Coleman of the Daily Mirror called it "a masterpiece of musical comedy legerdemain." The Daily News's John Chapman wrote that it was the first musical since Guys and Dolls in which all the theatrical elements had been "blended so artfully and so enjoyably." Kerr also noted that when Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison, and Robert Coote let go in "The Rain in Spain," there was "no controlling the joy in the theater."

The show ran for a then-unprecedented 2,717 performances. Above, Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle in the opening scene.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/CT Insider

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