FUNNY FACE, 1957BILL AVERY (1917-2002)

In preparation for Funny Face, Audrey went back to the barre for two months of ballet lessons in Paris. In An Elegant Spirit, son Sean Hepburn Ferrer muses what a joy it must have been ...to be able to reconnect with her first love - dancing! The choreography was arranged by Eugene Loring and Fred Astaire. Screenwriter, Leonard Gershe told biographer, Barry Paris I never saw anyone work so hard. She was tireless in learning both the songs and the dances. This sequence of iconic shots by stills photographer, Bill Avery, was taken during the Basal Metabolism dance routine, an interpretive avant-garde number performed solo by Hepburn in a smoky beatnik jazz cafe in head to toe black, save for white socks to highlight her dancing feet. In Funny Face, Astaire noted, she took of on a dance whirlwind that had been bottled up for years.