The Case of the Curious Pink Poster

Yes indeed, we are very proud of our little apartment here in NYC we are.  Quite proud.  And see that lovely pink poster over there?  Well, we’re more than a little proud of it as well.  Even before my husband and I moved to New York, we visited once before and purchased this cool original French movie poster of the film Funny Face.  I’ll level with you.  Truth be told?  I’d never even seen it.  But I was already an Audrey Hepburn fan, and the poster is more than a little attractive.  We bought it long before GAP commercials started stealing Audrey’s dancing scene for their slim black pant ads.  We had it framed, hung it on our wall, and whenever we moved it came with us.

Little did I know that this poster was bound to betray me.

Now consider something entirely different.  The Eloise books by Kay Thompson.  Recently you may have noticed that Jules at 7-Imp and I both solicited your opinions on celebrity picture books.  During the course of the discussion at Jules’s post, J.L. Bell of the blog Oz and Ends made this pertinent observation. "Kay Thompson’s Eloise books are the only children’s titles I can think of that have lasted a long time and eclipsed the author’s contemporaneous show-biz career. Thompson appeared in night clubs with the Williams brothers, in Funny Face and a couple of other movies, and on radio and TV. Her musical recordings led to Eloise and promoted that book."

I read this comment without processing the Funny Face part.  Indeed, my eyes traipsed right over it without taking it in.  Since purchasing my poster I’ve seen the movie and enjoyed it.  Not the best Hepburn (nor the best Astaire) but serviceable.  It had its moments.  Things to recommend it. 

So I mention that Bell cited Thompson to my husband as a kind of off-handed comment and Matt says, "Oh.  The Kay Thompson on our Funny Face poster?"

No.

Could it be?

All these years.

I rushed into the dining room and lo and behold . . . .