Re: 1957 Harvard Lampoon Awards
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 4:27 am
It shouldn't have been, but It was probably the age difference between Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire which everyone seemed to notice at the time. Harvard age men were particularly bothered by Audrey's films opposite men old enough to be her father - Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina, Gary Cooper in Love in the Afternoon and Astaire here.
The Oscar nominated screenplay was written by Leonard Gershe about the courtship of his friends Doe and Richard Avedon. Doe Avedon (the stewardess in The High and the Mighty) married third husband Don Siegel in 1957. The famous photographer, who did the still photography on the film, was her first husband. They married in 1944 when he was 21 and she was 19 and divorced five years later. There wasn't much difference in their ages. Astaire was 57 and Hepburn 27 when they made Funny Face. Astaire made just one more film as a leading man, the already in the can Silk Stockings, before hanging up his screen dancing shoes. Even he thought the age difference between him and his leading ladies was ridiculous.
The Oscar nominated screenplay was written by Leonard Gershe about the courtship of his friends Doe and Richard Avedon. Doe Avedon (the stewardess in The High and the Mighty) married third husband Don Siegel in 1957. The famous photographer, who did the still photography on the film, was her first husband. They married in 1944 when he was 21 and she was 19 and divorced five years later. There wasn't much difference in their ages. Astaire was 57 and Hepburn 27 when they made Funny Face. Astaire made just one more film as a leading man, the already in the can Silk Stockings, before hanging up his screen dancing shoes. Even he thought the age difference between him and his leading ladies was ridiculous.