Vinton Freedley A. Aarons with whom he formed a long term producing partnership. Their first major hit was "Lady Be Good!" (1924) with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin and featuring Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire. Over the next ten years the pair produced some of the most important works in the Broadway musical canon, featuring some of the most famous songs ever to emerge from the tin pan alley era, part of what is commonly referred to as "The Great American Songbook." The shows that followed included "Tip-Toes" (1925), "Oh, Kay!" (1926), and "Funny Face" (1927), again starring the
Funny Face (soundtrack) Gershwin's music". Ruhlmann praises Astaire as "typically effective" Funny Face (soundtrack) Funny Face is the soundtrack to the 1957 film of the same name, with music by George Gershwin, from his Broadway musical "Funny Face" (1927), and new songs composed by the film's producer Roger Edens, . The film was Astaire's first with Audrey Hepburn, who played his love interest, "Funny Face" bears little relation to the George and Ira Gershwin musical of the same name. The Allmusic review by William Ruhlmann awarded the album 3.5 stars and described Eden's music as "mediocre", adding that "more objectionably...(Eden) rewrites many of