Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Gregory Peck as a reporter andAudrey Hepburn as a royal princess out to see Rome on her own. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the screenplay and costume design also won. Sony VGP-BPL13 Battery

It was written by John Dighton and Dalton Trumbo, though with Trumbo on the Hollywood blacklist, he did not receive a credit; instead, Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for him. Trumbo's credit was reinstated when the film was released on DVD in 2003. On December 19, 2011, full credit for Trumbo's work was restored. Sony VGP-BPS13 Battery

The film was screened in the 14th Venice film festival within the official program.

In the 1970s, both Peck and Hepburn were approached with the idea of a sequel, but the project never came to fruition. The film was remade for television in 1987 with Tom Conti and Catherine Oxenberg, who is herself a member of a European royal family. Sony VGP-BPS13/B Battery

In 2012 a musical version of Roman Holiday, following the plot while using the songs of Cole Porter, was presented inMinneapolis at the Guthrie Theater. The cast included Stephanie Rothenberg as Princess Anne and Edward Watts as Joe Bradley.

Ann (Hepburn) is the crown princess of an unspecified country. Sony VGP-BPS13/S Battery

She is on a widely publicized tour of several European capitals, including Rome. One night, she is overwhelmed by the strenuous demands of her official duties, for which her day is tightly scheduled. Her doctor gives her a sedative to calm her down and help her sleep, but she secretly leaves her country's embassy to experience Rome by herself. Sony VGP-BPS13/S Battery

The sedative eventually takes effect and she falls asleep on a bench, where Joe Bradley (Peck), an expatriate American reporter working for the Rome Daily American, finds her. Not recognizing her, he offers her money so that she can take a taxi home, but a very woozy "Anya Smith" (as she later calls herself) refuses to cooperate. Sony VGP-BPS13A/B Battery

Joe finally decides, for safety's sake, to let her spend the night in his apartment. He is amused by her regal manner, but less so when she appropriates his bed. He transfers her to a couch without awakening her. The next morning, Joe, having already slept through the interview Princess Ann was scheduled to give, hurries off to the news office, leaving her still asleep. Sony VGP-BPS13A/S Battery

When his editor, Mr. Hennessy (Hartley Power), asks why he is late, Joe lies to him; he claims to have attended the press conference for the princess. Joe makes up details of the alleged interview until Hennessy informs him that the press conference had been canceled because the princess had suddenly "fallen ill".Sony VGP-BPS13AS Battery

Joe sees a picture of her and recognizes that it is the same young woman who is in his apartment. Joe immediately sees the opportunity before him and proposes an exclusive interview for $5000, Hennessy agrees but bets Joe $500 that he will not succeed. Sony VGP-BPS13B/B Battery

Joe hurries home and, hiding the fact that he is a reporter, he offers to spend the day with Anya, showing her Rome. He also surreptitiously calls his photographer friend, Irving Radovich (Eddie Albert), to tag along to secretly take pictures. However, Anya declines Joe's offer and leaves. Sony VGP-BPS13B/Q Battery

Enjoying her freedom, on a whim, Anya gets her hair cut short in a barbershop. Joe follows and "accidentally" meets her on the Spanish Steps. This time he convinces her to go with him, and they spend the day seeing the sights, including the "Mouth of Truth", a face carved in marble which is said to bite off the hands of liars. Sony VGP-BPS13B/S Battery

When Joe pulls his hand out of the mouth, it appears to be missing, causing Anya to scream. He then pops his hand out of his sleeve and laughs. (Hepburn's shriek was not acting—Peck decided to pull a gag he had once seen Red Skelton do, and did not tell his co-star beforehand.)^[5] Sony VGP-BPS13Q Battery

Later, Anya shares with Joe her dream of living a normal life without her crushing responsibilities. That night, at a dance on a boat, government agents finally track her down and try to escort her away, but a wild melee breaks out and Joe and Anya escape. Through all this, they gradually fall in love, but Anya realizes that their relationship cannot continue. Sony VGP-BPS13S Battery

She finally bids farewell to Joe and returns to the embassy.

During the course of the day, Hennessy learns that the princess is missing, not ill as claimed. He suspects that Joe knows where she is, and tries to get him to admit it, but Joe claims to know nothing about it. Joe decides not to write the story. Sony VGP-BPL21 Battery

Initially, Irving plans to publish his photographs, but then reluctantly decides not to do so.

The next day, Princess Ann appears at the postponed news conference, and is alarmed to find Joe and Irving among the members of the press. Irving takes her picture with the same miniature cigarette lighter/camera he had used the previous day. Sony VGP-BPS21 Battery

He then presents her with the photographs he had taken that day, discreetly tucked in an envelope, as a memento of her adventure. Joe lets her know, by allusion, that her secret is safe with them. She, in turn, works into her bland statements a coded message of love and gratitude to Joe. Sony VGP-BPS21/S Battery

She then departs, leaving Joe to linger for a while, contemplating what might have been.

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Hepburn was ranked as the third greatest female screen legend in the history of American cinema and a place in the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. Sony VGP-BPS21A Battery

Born in Ixelles, a district of Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem during the Second World War, where she studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdambefore moving to London in 1948 to continue ballet training with Marie Rambert and perform as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions. Sony VGP-BPS21A/B Battery

After appearing in several British films and starring in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, Hepburn played the Academy Award-winning lead role in Roman Holiday (1953). Later performing in successful films like Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story(1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), Sony VGP-BPS21B Battery

My Fair Lady (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967), Hepburn received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations and accrued a Tony Award for her theatrical performance in the 1954 Broadway play Ondine. Hepburn remains one of few people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. Sony VAIO PCG-3B1M Battery

She appeared in fewer films as her life went on, devoting much of her later life to UNICEF. Although contributing to the organisation since 1954, she worked in some of the most profoundly disadvantaged communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992. Sony VAIO PCG-3C1T Battery

She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in late 1992, but a month later, aged 63, Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland in early 1993.

Audrey Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston on 4 May 1929 on Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, a municipality in Brussels in Belgium. Sony VAIO PCG-3D1M Battery

Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (1889–1980), was born in Úžice, Bohemia^[5] to a father of British Isles and Austrian descent^[6] and an Austrian mother.^[7] Ruston had earlier been married to Cornelia Bisschop, a Dutch heiress he met in the Dutch East Indies. Sony VAIO PCG-3G2M Battery

Although born Ruston, he later double-barrelled the surname to the more "aristocratic" Hepburn-Ruston, mistakenly^[6] believing himself descended from James Hepburn, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.^[8]

Her mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (1900–1984), was a Dutch aristocrat and the daughter of Aarnoud van Heemstra, Sony VAIO PCG-5R1M Battery

who was mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and served as Governor of Suriname from 1921 to 1928. Ella's mother was Elbrig Willemine Henriette, Baroness van Asbeck (1873–1939), who was a granddaughter of Dirk van Hogendorp.^[7] At age nineteen, Ella had married the knight Hendrik Gustaaf Adolf Quarles van Ufford, Sony VAIO PCG-7141M Battery

but they divorced in 1925. Hepburn had two half-brothers from this marriage: Jonkheer Arnoud Robert Alexander "Alex" Quarles van Ufford (1920–1979) and Jonkheer Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford (1924–2010).^[8][9]

Ruston and van Heemstra married in Batavia in September 1926. Sony VAIO PCG-7143M Battery

They moved back to Europe, to Ixelles in Belgium, where Hepburn was born in 1929. In January 1932 the family moved on to Linkebeek, a nearby Brussels municipality.^[10] Although born in Belgium, Hepburn had British citizenship through her father.^[4] Because of her mother's family in the Netherlands and her father's job with a British company,^[11] tSony VAIO PCG-7151M Battery

he family often travelled between the three countries. With her multinational background, she went on to speak fluent English, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian. Hepburn participated in ballet by the age of 5.

Childhood and adolescence in World War II

Hepburn's parents were members of the British Union of Fascists in the mid-1930s,^[12] with her father becoming a true Nazi sympathiser.^[13] Sony VAIO PCG-7154M Battery

After her mother discovered him in bed with the nanny of her children,^[14] Hepburn's father left the family abruptly. In the 1960s, Hepburn would finally locate him again inDublin through the Red Cross. Although he remained emotionally detached, his daughter remained in contact and supported him financially until his death.^[15] Sony VAIO PCG-7162M Battery

After Joseph had left in 1935, Ella van Heemstra took her children home to Arnhem, though her sons spent much time with their father in The Hague. Ella and Audrey moved to Kent in 1937, where Hepburn was educated at a tiny independent girls' school in the village of Elham, run by the sisters Rigden and then attended by about 14 children. Sony VAIO PCG-7181M Battery

In September 1939, her mother relocated her back home in Arnhem, in the belief that, like in the First World War, the Netherlands would remain neutral and be spared a German attack. Whilst there, Hepburn attended the Arnhem Conservatory from 1939 to 1945 where, in addition to the standard school curriculum, she trained in ballet with Winja Marova. Sony VAIO PCG-41112M Battery

After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Hepburn adopted the pseudonym Edda van Heemstra, a derivative of her mother's name Ella,^[18] because an "English sounding" name was considered dangerous during the German occupation. In 1942, her uncle Otto van Limburg Stirum, Sony VAIO PCG-7153M Battery

husband of Ella's older sister Miesje, was executed in retaliation for a sabotage by the resistance movement, while her half-brother Jan was deported to Berlin to work in a German labour camp (Alex went into hiding to avoid the same fate).^[19] After this, Ella, Miesje and Audrey moved in with Baron van Heemstra in nearby Velp. Sony VAIO PCG-71312M Battery

During her wartime struggles, Hepburn suffered from malnutrition, developed acute anæmia, respiratory problems, andœdema.^[20] Hepburn, in a retrospective interview, commented, "I have memories. More than once I was at the station seeing trainloads of Jews being transported, seeing all these faces over the top of the wagon. Sony VAIO PCG-7144M Battery

I remember, very sharply, one little boy standing with his parents on the platform, very pale, very blond, wearing a coat that was much too big for him, and he stepped on to the train. I was a child observing a child."^[21]

By 1944, Hepburn had become a proficient ballerina. Sony VAIO PCG-7191L Battery

She had secretly danced for groups of people to collect money for the Dutch resistance. "The best audience I ever had made not a single sound at the end of my performances," she remarked.^[22] After the Allied landing on D-Day, living conditions grew worse and Arnhem was subsequently devastated by Allied artillery fire under Operation Market Garden. Sony VAIO PCG-3C1M Battery

During the Dutch famine that followed in the winter of 1944, the Germans had blocked the resupply routes of the Netherlands' already-limited food and fuel supplies as retaliation for railway strikes that were held to hinder German occupation. People starved and froze to death in the streets; Sony VAIO PCG-3F1M Battery

Hepburn and many others resorted to making flour out of tulip bulbs to bake cakes and biscuits.^[13][23] One way that Hepburn passed the time was by drawing; some of her childhood artwork can be seen today.^[24] When the country was liberated, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration trucks followed.^[25] Sony VAIO PCG-3H1M Battery

Hepburn said in an interview that she fell ill from putting too much sugar in her oatmeal and eating an entire can of condensed milk.^[26] Hepburn's war-time experiences sparked her devotion to UNICEF, an international humanitarian organisation, in her later career.^[13][23] Sony VAIO PCG-3J1M Battery

Career beginnings and early roles

After the war ended in 1945, Ella and Audrey moved to Amsterdam, where Hepburn took ballet lessons for three years with Sonia Gaskell, arguably the leading figure in Dutch ballet.^[27] Sony VAIO PCG-8141M Battery

In 1948 she appeared for the first time on film, as an air stewardess in an educational travel film made by Charles van der Linden and Henry Josephson, Dutch in Seven Lessons.^[28] Gaskell provided an introduction to Marie Rambert, and in 1948 Hepburn traveled with her mother to London to study ballet at the Ballet Rambert. Sony VAIO PCG-8161M Battery

She supported herself with part-time work as a model. Around that time she decided to drop "Ruston" from her double-barreled surname. When Hepburn asked Rambert about her future, Rambert assured her that she could continue to work there and have a great career, but her relatively tall height of 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)^[29] Sony VAIO PCG-3C2M Battery

coupled with her poor nutrition during the war would keep her from becoming a prima ballerina. Hepburn trusted Rambert's assessment and decided to pursue acting.^[30] After becoming a star, Rambert said of Hepburn, "She was a wonderful learner. If she had wanted to persevere, she might have become an outstanding ballerina."^[31] Sony VAIO PCG-5N2M Battery

Hepburn's mother worked menial jobs in order to support them but Hepburn needed to find employment. Since she had trained in theatre all her life, working as a London chorus girl seemed sensible. "I needed the money; it paid ₤3 more than ballet jobs."^[32] She performed in the musical theatre revues High Button Shoes(1948) Sony VAIO PCG-5P1M Battery

at the London Hippodrome and Cecil Landeau's Sauce Tartare (1949) and Sauce Piquante (1950) at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End. Through her theatrical work, she realised her voice was not strong and needed to be developed; she therefore took elocution lessons with the actor Felix Aylmer.^[33] Sony VAIO PCG-5S1M Battery

After being spotted by an ABPC casting director in Sauce Piquante, Hepburn registered with the British film studio as a freelance actress whilst still working in the West End.^[3] The unknown Hepburn appeared in minor roles in the 1951 films One Wild Oat, Laughter in Paradise, Young Wives' Tale and The Lavender Hill Mob before playing her first major supporting role in Thorold Dickinson's The Secret People (1952), in which she played a prodigious ballerina and performed all of her own dancing sequences.^[3]

Hepburn was then offered a small role in the film being shot in both English and French Monte Carlo Baby (Nous Irons à Monte Carlo) (1951). Whilst Hepburn was filming on location, the French novelist Colette happened to be on the set, on an international search for the right actress to play the title character in her Broadway play Gigi. Sony VAIO PCG-9Z1M Battery

Upon first glance of Hepburn, Colette supposedly whispered, "Voilà," indicating Hepburn, "there's your Gigi."^[31][34] Hepburn supplemented her rehearsals with hours of private coaching. On 24 November 1951, Gigi opened at the Fulton Theatre and Hepburn's name was hoisted above the title of the play on the theatre marquee. Sony VAIO PCG-7171M Battery

The play ran for 219 performances, and finished on 31 May 1952.^[35] This debut on Broadway earned Hepburn a Theatre World Award.^[35] She also reprised this role in the US tour of the play which began 13 October 1952 in Pittsburgh and visited Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Washington and Los Angeles before closing on 16 May 1953 in San Franscisco.^[3] Sony VAIO PCG-7186M Battery

Roman Holiday and increased popularity

In the Italian-set Roman Holiday (1953), a film she would later call her dearest movie, Hepburn had her first starring role as Princess Ann, an incognito European princess who, escaping the reins of royalty, falls in love with an American newsman (Gregory Peck). Sony VAIO PCG-81112M Battery

While producers initially wanted Elizabeth Taylor for the role, director William Wyler was so impressed by Hepburn's screen test that he cast her in the lead. Wyler later commented, "She had everything I was looking for: charm, innocence and talent. She also was very funny. She was absolutely enchanting and we said, 'That's the girl!'"^[36] Sony VAIO PCG-31311M Battery

Originally, the film was to have had only Gregory Peck's name above its title, with "Introducing Audrey Hepburn" beneath in smaller font. However, Peck suggested to Wyler that he elevate her to equal billing so that her name appeared before the title and in type as large as his: Sony VAIO PCG-8152M Battery

"You've got to change that because she'll be a big star and I'll look like a big jerk."^[37]

Hepburn garnered critical and commercial acclaim for her portrayal, adding to her unexpected Academy Award for Best Actresswith her first BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and only Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1953. Sony VAIO PCG-31111M Battery

In his review in The New York Times, A. H. Weiler wrote:

Although she is not precisely a newcomer to films Audrey Hepburn, the British actress who is being starred for the first time as Princess Anne, is a slender, elfin and wistful beauty, alternately regal and childlike in her profound appreciation of newly-found, simple pleasures and love. Sony VAIO PCG-61111M Battery

Although she bravely smiles her acknowledgment of the end of that affair, she remains a pitifully lonely figure facing a stuffy future.

Hepburn was signed to a seven-picture contract with Paramount with twelve months in between films to allow her time for stage workSony VAIO PCG-51112M Battery

while spawning what became known as the Audrey Hepburn "look" after her illustration was placed on the September 1953 cover of TIME magazine.

Following her success in Roman Holiday, she starred in Billy Wilder's romantic Cinderella-story comedy Sabrina (1954) in which wealthy brothers Sony VAIO PCG-51211M Battery

(Humphrey Bogart and William Holden) compete for the affections of their chauffeur's innocent daughter (Hepburn). For her performance, she was nominated for the 1954 Academy Award for Best Actress while winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role the same year. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote: Sony VAIO PCG-51212M Battery

One might guess this is Miss Hepburn's picture, since she has the title role and has come to it trailing her triumphs from last year's "Roman Holiday." And, indeed, she is wonderful in it—a young lady of extraordinary range of sensitive and moving expressions within such a frail and slender frame. Sony VAIO PCG-41111M Battery

She is even more luminous as the daughter and pet of the servants' hall than she was as a princess last year, and no more than that can be said.

She began another collaboration that year, this time with actor Mel Ferrer, starred in the fantasy play Ondine on Broadway. Sony VAIO PCG-41111V Battery

With her lithe and lean frame, Hepburn made a convincing water spirit named Ondine in this sad story about love found and lost with a human (Ferrer). A New York Times critic commented:

Somehow Miss Hepburn is able to translate [its intangibles] into the language of the theatre without artfulness or precociousness. Sony VAIO PCG-61412V Battery

She gives a pulsing performance that is all grace and enchantment, disciplined by an instinct for the realities of the stage.

Hepburn and Ferrer got married on September 25, 1954, in Switzerland; their sometimes tumultuous partnership would last for the better part of the next fifteen years. Sony VAIO PCG-71112M Battery

Her performance won her the 1954 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, the same year she won the Academy Award for Roman Holiday. Hepburn, therefore, stands as one of three actresses to receive the Academy and Tony Awards for Best Actress in the same year (the others being Shirley Booth and Ellen Burstyn). Sony VAIO PCG-81111V Battery

Hepburn received the Golden Globe for World Film Favorite – Female in 1955,^[43] but also a major fashion influence. Hepburn was asked to play Anne Frank's counterpart in both the Broadway and film adaptations of Frank's life. Hepburn, however, who was born the same year as Frank, Sony VAIO PCG-81111V Battery

found herself "emotionally incapable" of the task, and at almost thirty years old, too old.^[44] The role was eventually given to Susan Strasberg and Millie Perkins in the play and film respectively.

Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, Sony VAIO PCG-81212M Battery

she went on to star in a series of successful films during the remainder of the decade, including her BAFTA- and Golden Globe-nominated role as Natasha Rostova in War and Peace(1956), an adaptation of the Tolstoy novel set during the Napoleonic wars with Henry Fonda and husband Mel Ferrer. Sony VAIO PCG-81212V Battery

In 1957, she exhibited her dancing abilities in her debut musical film Funny Face (1957) where Fred Astaire, a fashion photographer, discovers a beatnik bookstore clerk (Hepburn), who, lured by a free trip to Paris, becomes a beautiful model. The same year Hepburn starred in another romantic comedy, Sony VAIO PCG-51111M Battery

Love in the Afternoon, alongside Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier.

She played Sister Luke in The Nun's Story (1959), which focuses on the character's struggle to succeed as a nun alongside co-star Peter Finch. The role accrued her third Academy Award nomination and earned her a second BAFTA Award. Sony VAIO VPCS13X9E/B battery

A review inVariety said "Hepburn has her most demanding film role, and she gives her finest performance." Films in Review stated that her performance "will forever silence those who have thought her less an actress than a symbol of the sophisticated child/woman. Her portrayal of Sister Luke is one of the great performances of the screen." Sony VAIO VPCS12V9E/B battery

Reportedly, she spent hours in convents and with members of the Church to bring truth to her portrayal: "I gave more time, energy and thought to this than to any of my previous screen performances."^[46]

Following this, she received lukewarm reception for starring with Sony VAIO VPCS12V9E/B battery

Anthony Perkins in the romantic adventure Green Mansions (1959) where she plays—"with grace and dignity"—the "ethereal" Rima, a jungle girl, who falls in love with a Venezuelan traveller played by Perkins,^[47] and The Unforgiven (1960), her onlywestern film, where she appears "a bit too polished, Sony VAIO VPCF13M8E/B battery

too fragile and civilized among such tough and stubborn types" of Burt Lancaster and Lillian Gish in a story of racism against a group of Native Americans.^[48]

Breakfast at Tiffany's and continued stardom

Three months after the birth of her son, Sean, in 1960, Hepburn began work on Blake Edwards' Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Sony VAIO VPCF13Z0E/B battery

a film very loosely based on the Truman Capote novella. The film was drastically changed from the original version. Capotedisapproved of many changes and proclaimed that Hepburn was "grossly miscast"^[49] as Holly Golightly, a quirky New York call girl,^[50] a role he had envisioned for Marilyn Monroe.^[49] Sony VAIO VPCM13M1E/L battery

Hepburn's portrayal of Golightly was adapted from the original: "I can't play a hooker," she admitted to Marty Jurow, co-producer of the film.^[49]

Despite the lack of sexual innuendo in her character,^[49] her portrayal was nominated for the 1961 Academy Award for Best Actress and became an iconic character in American cinema. Sony VAIO VPCM13M1E/W battery

Often considered her defining role,^[51] Holly Golightly, Hepburn's high fashion style and sophistication within the film became synonymous with her. She named the role "the jazziest of my career"^[52] yet admitted that, "I'm an introvert. Playing the extroverted girl was the hardest thing I ever did."^[53] Sony VAIO VPCF22M1E battery

Thelittle black dress which is worn by Hepburn in the beginning of the film is cited as one of the most iconic items of clothing in the history of the twentieth century and perhaps the most famous little black dress of all time.

Playing opposite Shirley MacLaine and James Garner, Sony VAIO VPCF11M1E/H battery

her next role in William Wyler's lesbian-themed drama The Children's Hour(1961) saw Hepburn and MacLaine play teachers whose lives become troubled after a student accuses them of being lesbians. The film was one of Hollywood's earliest treatments of the subject of lesbianism,^[51] Sony VAIO VPCF13M0E/B battery

and perhaps due to the illiberal state of society, the film and Hepburn's performance went seemingly unnoticed both critically and commercially. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, however, noted that "it is not too well acted" with the exception of Hepburn who "gives the impression of being sensitive and pure" of its "muted theme"Sony VAIO VPCYB2M1E battery

while Variety magazine also complimented Hepburn's "soft sensitivity, marvellous projection and emotional understatement" adding that Hepburn and MacLaine "beautifully complement each other."

Her only film with Cary Grant came in the comic thriller Charade (1963). Sony VAIO VPCYB3V1E battery

Hepburn, who plays Regina Lampert, finds herself pursued by several men who chase the fortune her murdered husband had stolen. The role earned her third and final competitive BAFTA Award and accrued another Golden Globe nomination though critic Bosley Crowther was less kind: Sony VAIO VPCY11M1E battery

"Hepburn is cheerfully committed to a mood of how-nuts-can-you-be in an obviously comforting assortment of expensive Givenchy costumes."^[60] Grant (59 years old at the time), who had previously withdrawn from the starring male lead roles in Roman Holiday and Sabrina, Sony VAIO VPCS12L9E/B battery

was sensitive about the age difference between Hepburn (at age 34) and him, making him uncomfortable about the romantic interplay. To satisfy his concerns, the filmmakers agreed to change the screenplay so that Hepburn's character would be the one to romantically pursue his. Sony VAIO VPCF11S1E/B battery

Grant, however, loved to humour Hepburn and once said, "All I want for Christmas is another picture with Audrey Hepburn."^[62]

Paris When It Sizzles (1964) reteamed Hepburn with William Holden nearly ten years after Sabrina. Sony VAIO VPCYB3V1E/R Battery

The Parisian-set screwball comedy, called "marshmallow-weight hokum",^[63] was "uniformly panned"^[64] but critics were kind to Hepburn's creation of Gabrielle Simpson, the young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter (Holden) who aids his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots, Sony VAIO VPCF23P1E Battery

describing her as "a refreshingly individual creature in an era of the exaggerated curve."^[63] Critical reception was worsened by a number of problems that plagued the set behind the scenes. Holden tried, without success, to rekindle a romance with the now-married actress; that, combined with his alcoholism made the situation a challenge. Sony VAIO VPCF23N1E Battery

Hepburn, after principal photography began, demanded the dismissal of cinematographer Claude Renoir after seeing what she felt were unflattering dailies.^[64] Superstitious, she also insisted on dressing room 55 because that was her lucky number Sony VAIO VPCY21S1E/L Battery

(she had dressing room 55 for Roman Holiday andBreakfast at Tiffany’s) and required that Givenchy, her long-time designer, be given a credit in the film for her perfume.

"Not since Gone with the Wind has a motion picture created such universal excitement as My Fair Lady," wrote Soundstage magazine in 1964,^[42] Sony VAIO VPCY21S1E/G battery

yet Hepburn's landing the role of Eliza Doolittle in the 1964 George Cukor film adaptation of the stage musicalsparked controversy. Julie Andrews, who had originated the role in the stage show, had not been offered the part because producer Jack Warner thought Hepburn or Elizabeth Taylor more "bankable" propositions.^[65] Sony VAIO VPCF24M1E battery

Initially refusing, Hepburn asked Warner to give it to Andrews but, eventually, Hepburn was cast.^[65]

Further friction was created when, although non-singer Hepburn had sung with "throaty charm" in Funny Face and had lengthy vocal preparation for the role in My Fair Lady,^[65] her vocals were dubbed by Marni Nixon. Sony VAIO VPCF24M1E battery

A dubber was required because Eliza Doolittle's songs were not transposed down to accommodate Hepburn's "low-mezzo voice" (as Nixon referred to it).^[65] Upset, when first informed, she walked out. She returned the next day and apologized to everybody for her "wicked behavior".^[65] HP Pavilion DV9000 Battery

Although Hepburn had lip synced to her recorded tracks during filming, Nixon looped her vocals in post-production and was given multiple attempts to match Hepburn's lip movements precisely.^[65]

Overall, about 90% of her singing was dubbed despite being promised that most of her vocals would be used.^[65] HP Pavilion DV9000EA Battery

Hepburn's voice remains in one line in "I Could Have Danced All Night", in the first verse of "Just You Wait", and in the entirety of its reprise in addition to sing-talking in parts of "The Rain in Spain" in the finished film.^[65] When asked about the dubbing of an actress with such distinctive vocal tones, HP Pavilion DV9000T Battery

Hepburn frowned and said, "You could tell, couldn't you? And there was Rex, recording all his songs as he acted ... next time —" She bit her lip to prevent her saying more.^[53] She later admitted that she would have never have accepted the role knowing that Warner intended to have nearly all of her singing dubbed.^[65] HP Pavilion DV9000Z Battery

The controversy reached its height when, despite the film's accumulation of eight out of a possible twelve awards at the 37th Academy Awards, Hepburn was left nomination-less in the Best Actress category. Julie Andrews, however, was nominated for her efforts in Mary Poppins (1964), and won it. HP Pavilion DV9001CA Battery

The media tried to play up a rivalry between the two actresses, even though both women denied any such bad feelings existed and got along well. Despite such strife, many critics greatly applauded Hepburn's "exquisite" performance.^[67] "The happiest thing about [My Fair Lady]," HP Pavilion DV9001EA Battery

wrote Bosley Crowther in The New York Times "is that Audrey Hepburn superbly justifies the decision of Jack Warner to get her to play the title role."^[66] Her co-star Rex Harrison, who played Professor Higgins, also called Hepburn his favourite leading lady and Gene Ringgold of Soundstage also commented that "Audrey Hepburn is magnificent. HP Pavilion DV9001TX Battery

She is Eliza for the ages,"^[42] while adding, "Everyone agreed that if Julie Andrews was not to be in the film, Audrey Hepburn was the perfect choice."^[42]

As the decade carried on, Hepburn appeared in an assortment of genres including the heist comedy How to Steal a Million (1966) where she played Nicole, HP Pavilion DV9001XX Battery

the daughter of a famous art collector whose collection consists entirely of forgeries. Fearing her father's exposure, Nicole sets out to steal one of his priceless statues with the help of Simon Dermott (Peter O'Toole). In 1967, she starred in two films; the first being Two for the Road, HP Pavilion DV9003CA Battery

a non-linear and innovative British dramedy that traces the course of a couple's troubled marriage. Director Stanley Donen said that Hepburn was more free and happy than he had ever seen her, and he credited that to co-star Albert Finney.

The second, Wait Until Dark, is a suspense thriller in which Hepburn demonstrated her acting range by playing the part of a terrorised blind woman. HP Pavilion DV9003EA Battery

Filmed on the brink of divorce, it was a difficult film considering husband Mel Ferrer was its producer and she lost fifteen pounds under the stress, but she found solace in co-star Richard Crenna and director Terence Young. Hepburn earned her fifth and final competitive Academy Award nomination for Best Actress; HP Pavilion DV9003TX Battery

Bosley Crawther affirmed, "Hepburn plays the poignant role, the quickness with which she changes and the skill with which she manifests terror attract sympathy and anxiety to her and give her genuine solidity in the final scenes."^[69]

Final projects

From 1967 onward, after fifteen highly successful years in film, HP Pavilion DV9003XX Battery

Hepburn decided to devote more time to her family and acted only occasionally. She attempted a comeback in 1976, co-starring with Sean Connery, in the period piece Robin and Marian, which was moderately successful. In 1979, Hepburn took the lead role of Elizabeth Roffe in the international production of Bloodline, HP Pavilion DV9004TX Battery

re-teaming with director Terence Young (Wait Until Dark). She shared top billing with co-stars Ben Gazzara, James Mason and Romy Schneider. Author Sidney Sheldon revised his novel when it was reissued to tie into the film, making her character a much older woman to better match the actress's age. HP Pavilion DV9004XX Battery

The film, an international intrigue amid the jet-set, was a critical and box office failure. Hepburn's last starring role in a cinematic film was with Ben Gazzara in the 1981 comedy They All Laughed, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The film was overshadowed by the murder of one of its stars, Bogdanovich's girlfriend, Dorothy Stratten; HP Pavilion DV9005CA Battery

the film was released after Stratten's death but only in limited runs. In 1987, she co-starred withRobert Wagner in a tongue-in-cheek made-for-television caper film, Love Among Thieves, which borrowed elements from several of Hepburn's films, most notablyCharade and How to Steal a Million. HP Pavilion DV9005EA Battery

After finishing her last role in a motion picture in 1988, a cameo appearance as an angel in Steven Spielberg's Always, Hepburn completed only two more entertainment-related projects, both critically acclaimed. Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn was a PBS documentary television series, HP Pavilion DV9005TX Battery

her final performance before cameras filmed on location in seven countries in the spring and summer of 1990. A one-hour special preceded the series, debuting in March 1991, while the series commenced the day after her death (21 January 1993). For the series's debut, HP Pavilion DV9005US Battery

Hepburn was posthumously awarded the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming. Recorded in 1992, her spoken word album, Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales, features readings of classic children's stories and earned her a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children. HP Pavilion DV9006EA Battery

She remains one of the few entertainers to win Grammy and Emmy Awards posthumously.

Humanitarian career

Hepburn was appointed Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF. Then-United States president George H. W. Bush presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF, HP Pavilion DV9006TX Battery

and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences posthumously awarded her the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her contribution to humanity, with her son accepting on her behalf. Grateful for her own good fortune after enduring the German occupation as a child, HP Pavilion DV9007EA Battery

she dedicated the remainder of her life to helping impoverished children in the poorest nations. Hepburn's travels were made easier by her wide knowledge of languages; besides being naturally bilingual in English and Dutch, she also was fluent in French, Italian, Spanish, and German.^[70] HP Pavilion DV9007TX Battery

Though she had done work for UNICEF in the 1950s, starting in 1954 with radio presentations, this was a much higher level of dedication. Those close to her^[who?]say that the thoughts of dying, helpless children consumed her for the rest of her life. Her first field mission was to Ethiopia in 1988. HP Pavilion DV9008EA Battery

She visited an orphanage in Mek'ele that housed 500 starving children and had UNICEF send food. Of the trip, she said, "I have a broken heart. I feel desperate. I can't stand the idea that two million people are in imminent danger of starving to death, many of them children, [and] not because there isn't tons of food sitting in the northern port of Shoa. HP Pavilion DV9008EU Battery

It can't be distributed. Last spring, Red Cross and UNICEF workers were ordered out of the northern provinces because of two simultaneous civil wars... I went into rebel country and saw mothers and their children who had walked for ten days, even three weeks, looking for food, settling onto the desert floor into makeshift camps where they may die. HP Pavilion DV9008NR Battery

Horrible. That image is too much for me. The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering."^[71]

In August 1988, Hepburn went to Turkey on an immunisation campaign. HP Pavilion DV9008TX Battery

She called Turkey "the loveliest example" of UNICEF's capabilities. Of the trip, she said, "the army gave us their trucks, the fishmongers gave their wagons for the vaccines, and once the date was set, it took ten days to vaccinate the whole country. Not bad."In October, Hepburn went to South America. HP Pavilion DV9009CL Battery

In Venezuela and Ecuador, Hepburn told the United States Congress, "I saw tiny mountain communities, slums, and shantytowns receive water systems for the first time by some miracle – and the miracle is UNICEF. I watched boys build their own schoolhouse with bricks and cement provided by UNICEF." HP Pavilion DV9009NR Battery

Hepburn toured Central America in February 1989, and met with leaders in Honduras, El Salvador, andGuatemala. In April, she visited Sudan with Wolders as part of a mission called "Operation Lifeline". Because of civil war, food from aid agencies had been cut off. The mission was to ferry food to southern Sudan. HP Pavilion DV9009TX Battery

Hepburn said, "I saw but one glaring truth: These are not natural disasters but man-made tragedies for which there is only one man-made solution – peace."In October, Hepburn and Wolders went to Bangladesh. John Isaac, a UN photographer, said, "Often the kids would have flies all over them, but she would just go hug them. HP Pavilion DV9009US Battery

I had never seen that. Other people had a certain amount of hesitation, but she would just grab them. Children would just come up to hold her hand, touch her – she was like the Pied Piper." In October 1990, Hepburn went to Vietnam in an effort to collaborate with the government for national UNICEF-supported immunisation and clean water programmes. HP Pavilion DV9010CA Battery

In September 1992, four months before she died, Hepburn went to Somalia. Calling it "apocalyptic", she said, "I walked into a nightmare. I have seen famine in Ethiopia and Bangladesh, but I have seen nothing like this – so much worse than I could possibly have imagined. I wasn't prepared for this." HP Pavilion DV9010EA Battery

"The earth is red – an extraordinary sight – that deep terracotta red. And you see the villages, displacement camps and compounds, and the earth is all rippled around them like an ocean bed. And those were the graves. There are graves everywhere. Along the road, around the paths that you take, along the riverbeds, near every camp – there are graves everywhere."HP Pavilion DV9010TX Battery

Though scarred by what she had seen, Hepburn still had hope. "Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics." "Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. HP Pavilion DV9010US Battery

I have seen the miracle of water which UNICEF has helped to make a reality. Where for centuries young girls and women had to walk for miles to get water, now they have clean drinking water near their homes. Water is life, and clean water now means health for the children of this village. HP Pavilion DV9011EA Battery

" "People in these places don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognise the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump UNICEF." HP Pavilion DV9011XX Battery

Personal life

In 1952, Hepburn was engaged to the young James Hanson,^[72] whom she had known since her London dancing days. She called it "love at first sight"; however, after having her wedding dress fitted and the date set, HP Pavilion DV9012EA Battery

she decided the marriage would not work because the demands of their careers would keep them apart most of the time.^[73] She issued a statement about her decision, saying, "When I get married, I want to be really married."^[74] In the early 1950s, she also dated future Hairproducer Michael Butler.^[75] HP Pavilion DV9012TX Battery

Hepburn and Gregory Peck bonded during the filming of Roman Holiday (1953) and there were rumours that they were romantically involved; both denied it. Hepburn, however, added, "Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can't do it any other way. HP Pavilion DV9013CA Battery

But you don't carry it beyond the set."^[76] They did however become lifelong friends. During the filming of Sabrina (1954), Hepburn and the already-married William Holden became romantically involved. She hoped to marry him and have children, but she broke off the relationship when Holden revealed that he had undergone a vasectomy. HP Pavilion DV9013CL Battery

Although a common perception that Bogart and Hepburn (both starred in Sabrina together) did not get along, Hepburn commented that, "Sometimes it's the so-called 'tough guys' that are the most tender hearted, as Bogey was with me."

At a cocktail party hosted by Gregory Peck, Hepburn met American actor Mel Ferrer. HP Pavilion DV9014EA Battery

Ferrer recalled that, "We began talking about theatre; she knew all about the La Jolla Playhouse Summer Theatre, where Greg Peck and I had been co-producing plays. She also said she'd seen me three times in the movie Lili. Finally, she said she'd like to do a play with me, and she asked me to send her a likely play if I found one." HP Pavilion DV9014TX Battery

Ferrer, vying for Hepburn to take the title role, sent her the script for the play Ondine. She agreed and rehearsals started in January 1954. Eight months later, on 25 September 1954, after meeting, working together and falling in love, the pair were married^[81] while preparing to star together in the filmWar and Peace (1955). HP Pavilion DV9015EA Battery

Before having their only son, Hepburn had two miscarriages in March 1955and in 1959. The latter occurred when filming The Unforgiven (1960) where breaking her back after falling off a horse and onto a rock resulted in hospital stay and miscarriage induced by physical and mental stress. HP Pavilion DV9015TX Battery

Hepburn, therefore, took a year off work in order to successfully have a child. Sean Hepburn Ferrer, their son, whose godfather was the novelist A. J. Cronin who resided near Hepburn in Lucerne, was born on 17 July 1960.

Despite the insistence from gossip columns that their marriage would not last, HP Pavilion DV9016EA Battery

Hepburn claimed that she and Ferrer were inseparable and very happy together though admitted that he had a bad temper.^[82] Ferrer was rumoured to be too controlling of Hepburn and had been referred to by others as being her "Svengali" – an accusation that Hepburn laughed off. HP Pavilion DV9016TX Battery

William Holden was quoted as saying, "I think Audrey allows Mel to think he influences her." After a 14 year marriage, the couple divorced on 5 December 1968. Their son believed that Hepburn had stayed in the marriage too long. In June 2008, Mel Ferrer died of heart failure at the age of ninety. HP Pavilion DV9017EA Battery

She met Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti on a cruise and fell in love with him on a trip to Greek ruins. She believed she would have more children, and possibly stop working. She married him on 18 January 1969 at age 40, and gave birth to their son Luca Dotti on 8 February 1970. HP Pavilion DV9017TX Battery

When pregnant with Luca in 1969, Hepburn was more careful, resting for months and passing the time by painting before delivering him by caesarean section. Hepburn tried for another child but, again, had a miscarriage in 1974.

Although Dotti loved Hepburn and was well liked by Sean, who called him "fun", he began having affairs with younger women. HP Pavilion DV9018EA Battery

As for herself, Hepburn had a romantic relationship with actor Ben Gazzara during the filming of the 1979 movie Bloodline.^[85]The Dotti-Hepburn marriage lasted thirteen years and ended in 1982 when Hepburn felt Luca and Sean were old enough to handle life with a single mother. HP Pavilion DV9018TX Battery

Although Hepburn broke off all contact with Ferrer (she only spoke to him twice more in the remainder of her life), she remained in touch with Dotti for the benefit of Luca. In October 2007, Andrea Dotti died from complications of a colonoscopy.

From 1980 until her death, Hepburn lived and was romantically involved with Dutch actor Robert Wolders, HP Pavilion DV9019EA Battery

the widower of actress Merle Oberon. She met Wolders through a friend in the later stage of her marriage to Dotti. The divorce from Dotti finalised, Wolders and Hepburn started their lives together, although they never married. In 1989, she called the nine years she had spent with him the happiest years of her life. HP Pavilion DV9019TX Battery

"Took me long enough," she said in an interview with American journalist Barbara Walters. Walters then asked why they never married; Hepburn replied that they were married, just not formally.

Upon return from Somalia to Switzerland in late September 1992, Hepburn began suffering from abdominal pains. HP Pavilion DV9020TX Battery

She went to specialists and received inconclusive results, so decided to have herself examined while on a trip to Los Angeles, California in October. On 1 November, Hepburn checked in at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with her family. Doctors performed a laparoscopy and discovered abdominal cancer that had spread from her appendix, HP Pavilion DV9020XX Battery

a very rare form of cancer belonging to a group of cancers known aspseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP).^[87] Having grown slowly over several years, the cancer had metastasised, not as a tumour, but as a thin coating over her small intestine. After surgery, the doctors put Hepburn through 5-fluorouracil Leucovorin chemotherapy. HP Pavilion DV9021TX Battery

A few days later, she had an obstruction and medication was not enough to dull the pain. She underwent further surgery on 1 December. After one hour, the surgeon decided that the cancer had spread too far to be removed fully, and was inoperable.

After coming to terms with the gravity of Hepburn's illness, HP Pavilion DV9021XX Battery

her family decided to return home to Switzerland in order to celebrate her last Christmas. Because Hepburn was still recovering from surgery, she was unable to fly on commercial aircraft. Hubert de Givenchy offered to help and arranged for Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon to send her private Gulfstream jet, HP Pavilion DV9022EA Battery

filled with flowers, to take Hepburn from Los Angeles to Geneva.^[89] On the evening of 20 January 1993, at her home in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland, Hepburn died in her sleep of appendiceal cancer. After her death, Gregory Peck went on camera and tearfully recited her favourite poem, "Unending Love" by Rabindranath Tagore.^[90] HP Pavilion DV9022TX Battery

Funeral services were held at the village church of Tolochenaz, Switzerland, on 24 January 1993. Maurice Eindiguer, the same pastor who wed Hepburn and Mel Ferrer and baptised her son Sean in 1960, presided over her funeral while Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, of UNICEF, delivered a eulogy. HP Pavilion DV9023 Battery

Many family members and friends attended the funeral, including her sons, partner Robert Wolders, brother Ian Quarles van Ufford, ex-husbands Andrea Dotti and Mel Ferrer, Hubert de Givenchy, executives of UNICEF, and fellow actors Alain Delon and Roger MooreHP Pavilion DV9023US Battery

Flower arrangements were sent to the funeral by Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor and the Dutch royal family.^[92] The same day as her funeral, Hepburn was interred at the Tolochenaz Cemetery, a small cemetery that sits atop a hill overlooking the village.^[93] HP Pavilion DV9024 Battery

Hepburn's legacy as an actress and a personality has endured long after her death. The American Film Institute named Hepburn third among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time. Even in her last years, she remained a visible presence in the film world. HP Pavilion DV9024EA Battery

She received a tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1991 and was a frequent presenter at the Academy Awards. She was the recipient of four posthumous awards including the 1993 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and competitive Grammy and Emmy Awards. HP Pavilion DV9030EA Battery

She has been the subject of many biographies since her death and the 2000 dramatisation of her life titled The Audrey Hepburn Story which starred Jennifer Love Hewitt and Emmy Rossum as the older and younger Hepburn respectively.^[94] The film concludes with footage of the real Audrey Hepburn, shot during one of her final missions for UNICEF. HP Pavilion DV9030US Battery

Hepburn's image is widely used in advertising campaigns across the world. In Japan, a series of commercials used colourised and digitally enhanced clips of Hepburn in Roman Holiday to advertise Kirin black tea. In the United States, Hepburn was featured in a Gap commercial which ran from 7 September 2006, to 5 October 2006. HP Pavilion DV9033 Battery

It used clips of her dancing from Funny Face, set to AC/DC's "Back in Black", with the tagline "It's Back – The Skinny Black Pant". To celebrate its "Keep it Simple" campaign, the Gap made a sizeable donation to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.^[95]

Hepburn has been considered by some to be a gay icon. HP Pavilion DV9033CL Battery

Hepburn earned her place in the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1961 but her reverence as a fashion icon has continued long since her death, proved by accruing the titles "most beautiful woman of all time" and "most beautiful woman of the 20th century" in polls by Evian and QVCrespectively.HP Pavilion DV9035EA Battery

Despite being far from the Hollywood preference of bosomy actresses like Marilyn Monroe, Martine Carol, Kim Novak and Lana Turner, Hepburn was very feminine by her grace, huge eyes and long legs. Against the gender stereotypes of the time, the natural thickness of her brown eyebrows made her "funny face unforgettable," HP Pavilion DV9035NR Battery

reminisced director Billy Wilder. He joked, "This girl...may make bosoms a thing of the past."

Hepburn redefined glamour with "elfin" features and a gamine waif-like figure that inspired designs by couturier Hubert de Givenchy who is credited for creating her style.^[38] Givenchy started designing her dresses since the film Sabrina (1954). HP Pavilion DV9036 Battery

He noted that, upon being told that the actress he would be responsible for many outfits would be "Miss Hepburn", he had expected Katharine Hepburn. When faced with Audrey, he was initially disappointed and told Hepburn he had little time to spare. Nevertheless, she knew exactly how she wanted to look and asked to view his latest collection. HP Pavilion DV9036EA Battery

Their collaboration in Sabrina formed a lifelong friendship and partnership; she was often a muse for many of his designs and her style became renowned internationally.

"[Givenchy] gave me a look, a kind, a silhouette. He has always been the best and he stayed the best. Because he kept the spare style that I love. HP Pavilion DV9037 Battery

What is more beautiful than a simple sheath made an extraordinary way in a special fabric, and just two earrings?" revealed Hepburn.^[104] Givenchy created her outfits for many other films, including Funny Face, Love in the Afternoon, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Paris When It Sizzles, Charade and How to Steal a Million. HP Pavilion DV9037EA Battery

The designer was always amazed that, even after thirty five years of collaboration, "her measurements [had] not changed an inch."^[104] Givenchy remained Hepburn's friend and ambassador, and she his muse, throughout her life. Hepburn observed, "I have many things in common with Hubert. We like the same things."^[ HP Pavilion DV9038 Battery

She agreed to model, on occasions, the creations of her friend. In 1988, when he presented his summer collection in Paris, she said, "Wherever I am in the world, he is always there. He is a man who does not disperse into worldliness. He has time for those he loves."Givenchy subsequently created a perfume for her titledL'Interdit (French for "Forbidden").HP Pavilion DV9038EA Battery

She equally inspired fashion photographer Richard Avedon, who captured an intentionally overexposed close-up of Hepburn's face in which only her famous features – her eyes, her eyebrows, and her mouth – are visible. "I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. HP Pavilion DV9039 Battery

I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait."^[105] One of her many costars, Shirley Maclaine, wrote in her 1996 memoir My Lucky Stars, "[Hepburn] had very rare qualities and I envied her style and taste. HP Pavilion DV9039EA Battery

I felt clumsy and old fashioned when I was with her." Hepburn's fashion styles continue to be popular among women today.

Italian shoe designer Salvatore Ferragamo created a shoe for her and made her ambassador of his fashion house while honouring HP Pavilion DV9040EA Battery

her in a 1999 exhibition dedicated to the actress titled Audrey Hepburn, a woman, the style. She also popularised the Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses after the film Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) in addition to being on the cover of many fashion magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. HP Pavilion DV9040EU Battery

She exercised fashion in her lifetime and continues to influence fashion. Fashion experts affirmed that Hepburn's longevity as a style icon results from her sticking with a look that suited her: "clean lines, simple yet bold accessories, minimalist palette."^[107] HP Pavilion DV9040TX Battery

Although Hepburn enjoyed fashion, she did not place much importance on it, preferring casual and comfortable clothes contrary to her image.^[108] In addition, she never considered herself attractive. She stated in a 1959 interview, "you can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. HP Pavilion DV9040US Battery

I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive."^[109] HP Pavilion DV9041 Battery

The "little black dress" from Breakfast at Tiffany's, designed by Givenchy, was sold at a Christie's auction on 5 December 2006 for £467,200 (approximately $920,000), almost seven times its £70,000 pre-sale estimate. This was the highest price paid for a dress from a film, HP Pavilion DV9041EA Battery

until it was surpassed by the $4.6 million paid in June 2011 for the Marilyn Monroe "subway dress" from The Seven Year Itch.^[111] The proceeds went to the City of Joy Aid charity to aid underprivileged children in India. The head of the charity said, "there are tears in my eyes. HP Pavilion DV9042 Battery

I am absolutely dumbfounded to believe that a piece of cloth which belonged to such a magical actress will now enable me to buy bricks and cement to put the most destitute children in the world into schools."^[112] However, the dress auctioned by Christie's was not the one that Hepburn wore in the film.^[113] HP Pavilion DV9042EA Battery

Of the two dresses that Hepburn did wear, one is held in the Givenchy archives while the other is displayed in the Museum of Costume in Madrid.^[112] A subsequent London auction of Hepburn's film wardrobe in December 2009 raised £270,200 ($437,000), including £60,000 for the black Chantilly lace cocktail gown from How to Steal a Million. HP Pavilion DV9043 Battery

Half the proceeds were donated to All Children in School, a joint venture of The Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund and UNICEF.Audrey Hepburn received numerous awards and honours during her career. Hepburn won or was nominated for awards for her work in motion pictures, television, spoken-word recording, on stage and humanitarian work. HP Pavilion DV9043EA Battery

She was five-times nominated for an Academy Award and was awarded the 1954 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Roman Holiday and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993, posthumously, for her humanitarian work. 
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Hepburn won threeGolden Globe Awards including the Cecil B. Demille Award in 1990 and was nominated for a further seven. She also won the 1954 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in Ondine and received a the Special Tony Award in 1968. HP Pavilion DV9044EA Battery

Posthumously, Hepburn also received a number of awards and honours including an Emmy Award for her television seriesGardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn while her contributions to a spoken-word recording titled Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales earned her a Grammy Award. HP Pavilion DV9045 Battery

Hepburn stands as one of few entertainers who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards. She has been honoured on United States postage stamps and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. HP Pavilion DV9045EA Battery

The American Film Institute has repeatedly recognised her talent, placing Hepburn third on its list of the top 100 female stars of all time and placing several of films she starred in its 100 best... lists. HP Pavilion DV9046 Battery,HP Pavilion DV9046EA Battery,HP Pavilion DV9047 Battery