 Fred Astaire (qv) also starred in the original 1927 Broadway  version of George Gershwin (qv)s and Ira Gershwin (qv)s "Funny  Face". Although he was the male lead in the show, he did not play  the same character he does in the film, and the storyline of the  original stage musical was entirely different from the one in the  film. Both play and film used many of the same songs.