Unlike her down the road film, My Fair Lady, Hepburn sings in her have voice in that, her foremost musical comedy. Astaire, meanwhile, was approaching a prevent of his musical film career; many songs in a film, including the title song, date back to his earliest musical theater in the Thirties. Kay Thompson makes the uncommin appearance on camera also, when Maggie Prescott, a fashion magazine editor.

Astaire's character was loosely depending upon a career of Richard Avedon, who provided the total of the photo seen in the film.

Funny Face was also a title of an American television series starring Broadway singer/actress Sandy Duncan, which aired from 1971 to 1972 for two seasons..