Audrey Hepburn plays Jo Stockton, a tomboyish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk enamored with the French pseudo-philosophy of "Empathicalism" (aka Existentialism). After being discovered by photographer Dick Avery and Maggie Prescott, the editor-in-chief of Quality Magazine, she is whisked to Paris, divested of her intellectual ambitions and transformed into the walking embodiment of the “Quality Woman.” The film gleefully sends up almost every 1950s cliché. By the final scene, Jo literally floats away on a river raft into the gauzy distance of a magazine wonderland wearing a Givenchy wedding dress and embracing her photographer, played by Fred Astaire. Kay Thompson, in her only starring role as editrix Prescott, exhorts the women of America, “no, make it the women everywhere,” to “Think Pink!” Astaire shines in a toreador jazz dance that’s among his best work on screen. But the three of them are glorious in the film’s central musical number, "Bonjour, Paris!" a hymn to the "Great American Tourist." Amid picture-postcard views of the Arc de Triumphe, Notre Dame and les Invalides, Thompson and Hepburn sing wonderingly, "Is it real? Am I here?" No! This Paris is a figment of the postwar American imagination made possible by the technological powers of VistaVision.