Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) is a fashion magazine publisher and editor, for Quality magazine, who is looking for the next big fashion trend.
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Thompson, who usually worked behind the scenes as a musical director for films, makes a rare appearance on camera as Maggie Prescott, a fashion magazine editor loosely based on Diana Vreeland.
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Besides her duet with Hepburn, she performs the solo number "Think Pink!" in the presence of a dance chorus, and Thompson and Astaire perform a comic dance duet to "Clap Yo' Hands." Kay Thompson is perhaps best known today as the author of the popular series of books concerning the spoiled rich girl, "Eloise".
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The film is jokingly regarded as the first (and only) M-G-M musical made at Paramount Studios since Roger Edens was the producer, Stanley Donen was the director, and quite a few of the staff members under the Arthur Freed Unit at Metro (including Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger, and Skip Martin), along with Astaire and Kay Thompson, were brought over to Paramount to make this film.
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She performs one solo, "How Long Has This Been Going On?"; a duet with Astaire, "'S Wonderful"; a duet with Kay Thompson called "On How to Be Lovely"; and takes part in an ensemble performance of "Bonjour, Paris!".
The April session was recorded at the Jack Clement studio and produced the rest of the album's tracks such as, "Funny Face", "Daddy Dumplin'", and "Society's Got Us".
Funny or Die | Face to Face | The North Face | Funny Girl | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Two-Face | Face to Face (punk band) | face | Galle Face Green | Funny Face | My Funny Valentine | Funny Lady | Funny Cide | Face (professional wrestling) | Baby Face Nelson | That Face | Roy Face | Projekt: The New Face of Goth | Let's Face It | Galle Face Hotel | Funny or Die Presents | Funny Girl (musical) | Face Tomorrow | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film) | Zoot Suit/I'm the Face | the North Face | The Funny Bone | The French, They Are a Funny Race | The Face of Evil | Radical Face |
A member of Ziegfeld Follies, she appeared in the original stage production of Funny Face (1927) alongside Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire, as well as Oh, Kay! in 1926.
White is also a collector of G.I. Joe and other action figures, but gives up collecting as he grows up, gets married, and starts a family, unlike his friend Rusty, who remains locked in a permanent manchild state, always looking for elements of his lost childhood like lunchboxes, Funny Face drink cups, and more.
Prior to her role as Marisa Perkins, she had a featured role as Alice McRaven, the best friend of Sandy Duncan's character Sandy Stockton on Funny Face, in the 1970s.
An ash blonde, she was a favorite model of photographer Richard Avedon, who served as a thinly veiled model for Fred Astaire′s character of Dick Avery in Funny Face.