What were Audrey Hepburn's last words?!
Question: I'm doing a research on her.
Answers: I'm doing a research on her.
there's a really good book about her that i read a couple years ago, by her son. her life was remarkable- she was gorgeous, poised, and did something with her life- and it's interesting to read about her from her son's perspective. you see her as "mom", rather than a super glamourous movie star.
hope i helped
"OH SHI-".
Let them eat cake.
goodbye it was nice not knowing you
I dont know but she was always sweet and probably whispered Goodbye to her loved ones.
ps
In 1992, when Hepburn returned to Switzerland from her visit to Somalia, she began to feel abdominal pains. She went to specialists and received inconclusive results, so she decided to have it examined while on a trip to Los Angeles in October. On November 1, doctors conducted a laparoscopy surgery and discovered abdominal cancer that had spread from her appendix. It had grown slowly over several years, and metastasized not as a tumor, but as a thin encasing over her small intestine. The doctors performed surgery and then put Hepburn through 5-fluorouracil Leucovorin chemotherapy. A few days later, she had an occlusion. Medication was not enough to dull the pain, so on December 1, she had a second surgery. After one hour, the surgeon decided that the cancer had spread too far and could not be removed.
As Hepburn was unable to tolerate a commercial flight, Givenchy arranged for socialite Bunny Mellon to send her private jet to Los Angeles to take Hepburn home to Switzerland. Mellon filled the cabin with flowers. Audrey Hepburn died of the cancer on January 20 1993 , in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland, and was interred there. She was sixty-three.
Early audrey hepburn fashions life
Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston[1] in Brussels, Belgium, she was the only child audrey hepburn breakfast at tiffany's of Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston,[2] an Englishman,[2] and Baroness Ella van Heemstra van audrey hepburn myspace layout Ufford Ruston,[2] a Dutch aristocrat descended from French nobility. Her father later appended the surname of his grandmother audrey hepburn hair styles Kathleen Hepburn to the audrey hepburn story family's, and her surname became Hepburn-Ruston.[2] She audrey hepburn tiara had two half-brothers, Arnoud Robert Alexander "Alex" Quarles van Ufford[2] and Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford,[2] by her mother's audrey hepburn style first marriage to the Dutch nobleman Hendrik funny face audrey hepburn Gustaaf Adolf Quarles van Ufford.[2] She was a descendant of King Edward III of England[3] and James Hepburn, 4th Earl of halloween costumes audrey hepburn Bothwell[2], from whom audrey hepburn black and white Katharine Hepburn may have also been descended.[4]
Hepburn's father's job required audrey hepburn commercial the family to travel often between Brussels, England, and The Netherlands. From 1935 audrey hepburn current tv schedule to 1938, Hepburn attended a private academy for girls in Kent. In 1935, audrey hepburn look her parents divorced and her audrey hepburn style clothing father, who was a Nazi sympathizer,[5] left audrey hepburn wig the family.[6] She later called this the most traumatic moment of givenchy audrey hepburn her life. Years later my fair lady, audrey hepburn she located him in Dublin through the Red Cross. She stayed in contact with him and supported him financially audrey hepburn costume until his death.[7] In 1939, her mother audrey hepburn halloween costumes moved her and her two half-brothers audrey hepburn moon to their grandfather's home in Arnhem, Netherlands. Ella believed the Netherlands would be safe audrey hepburn with cat from Nazi attack. Hepburn attended the Arnhem Conservatory from 1939 to costume audrey hepburn 1945 where audrey hepburn collectables she trained in ballet, in addition to learning a standard school curriculum.
In 1940, the Nazis invaded Arnhem. During audrey hepburn funny face gap the war Hepburn adopted the pseudonym Edda Van audrey hepburn hairstyles Heemstra, modifying her mother's documents funny face - audrey hepburn to do so, because an "English-sounding" name was considered dangerous. how to look like audrey hepburn This was never her legal name. The name Edda was a modified version of Hepburn's mother's name, Ella.[8]
By 1944, 1961 audrey hepburn dress Hepburn had become a very proficient ballet dancer. She audrey hepburn moon river secretly danced for groups of people to collect money for the underground movement. She audrey hepburn sunglasses later said, "the best audience I ever how to dress like audrey hepburn had made not a single sound at the end of my performance."[9]
After the landing sabrina audrey hepburn of the Allied Forces on D-Day, things grew worse audrey and katherine hepburn under the German occupiers. During audrey hepburn black white the Dutch famine over the winter of 1944, the Nazis confiscated the Dutch people's limited audrey hepburn breakfast tiffany's food and fuel audrey hepburn diet supply for themselves. Without heat in their homes or food to eat, people audrey hepburn halloween costume in the Netherlands starved and froze to death in the streets. Hepburn and audrey hepburn monologue many other Dutch people had to resort to using flour audrey hepburn moonriver made from tulip bulbs to bake cakes and cookies.[5][10] Arnhem was devastated during allied bombing raids that were part audrey hepburn sabrina of Operation Market audrey hepburn style dress Garden. Hepburn's uncle and a cousin of her mother's were shot audrey hepburn wallpapers in front of Hepburn for being part of the Resistance. movie cary grant audrey hepburn Hepburn's half-brother Ian van Ufford spent time in a German labor camp. Suffering replica audrey hepburn dress breakfast at tiffany's from malnutrition, Hepburn audrey hepburn beauty tips developed acute anemia, respiratory problems, and edema--a swelling of the limbs.[11]
In 1991, audrey hepburn black dress Hepburn said, "I have memories. More than once I was at audrey hepburn earplugs the station seeing trainloads of Jews being transported, seeing all these faces over the audrey hepburn embassy dress top of the wagon. I remember, very sharply, one little audrey hepburn family boy standing with audrey hepburn hubert de givenchy his parents on the platform, very pale, very blond, wearing a coat that was much audrey hepburn in sabrina too big for audrey hepburn make-up him, and he stepped on to the train. I was audrey hepburn tiaras a child observing a child."
Hepburn also noted the similarities between her and Anne audrey hepburns children Frank. "I was exactly the same age as Anne pink gown audrey hepburn Frank. We were both 10 when war broke out and 15 quotes by audrey hepburn when the war finished. I was given the book audrey hepburn & rex harrison in Dutch, in galley form, in 1946 by a friend. I read it audrey hepburn - my fair lady . . . and it destroyed me. It does this audrey hepburn academy award to many people when they first read it but I was not reading it audrey hepburn and george peppard as a book, as printed pages. This was my audrey hepburn and pictures and fashion life. I didn't know what I audrey hepburn cigarette holders was going to read. I've never been the same again, it affected audrey hepburn costumes me so deeply."
"We saw audrey hepburn dance reprisals. We saw young men put against the wall and shot and audrey hepburn dance movie they'd close the street and then open it and you could pass by again. If audrey hepburn death you read the diary, I've marked one place audrey hepburn faceplate where she says, 'Five hostages shot today'. That was the day my uncle was shot. audrey hepburn fulton theatre program And in this child's audrey hepburn gap ad words I was reading about what audrey hepburn in elegant dresses was inside me and is still there. It was a catharsis for me. This child who was locked up in audrey hepburn in jeans four walls had written a full report of audrey hepburn inspired clothing everything I'd experienced and felt."
These times were audrey hepburn movies characters not all bad and she was able to audrey hepburn music enjoy some of her childhood. Again drawing parallels to Anne Frank's audrey hepburn paper dolls life, Hepburn said, "This spirit of survival is so strong in Anne audrey hepburn replica dress Frank's words. One minute she says, 'I'm so depressed.' The next audrey hepburn roman holiday fashion she is longing to ride a bicycle. She is certainly a symbol audrey hepburn wallcovering and border of the child in very charade audrey hepburn difficult circumstances, which is what I devote all my time to. She fair lady audrey hepburn transcends her death."
One way in information about audrey hepburn which Audrey Hepburn passed the time was by drawing, and list movies starring audrey hepburn movies some of her childhood artwork can be seen today.[12]
When the tanks came in myspace audrey hepburn profile layout and the country was liberated, United styles hat were popularised by audrey hepburn Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration trucks followed.[13] Hepburn said in an styles that audrey hepburn gave to the industry interview that she ate an entire can of condensed milk and then got sick tiara worn by audrey hepburn from one of her first relief ancestry audrey hepburn meals because she put too much sugar in her oatmeal.[14] This are audrey and katharine hepburn related experience is what led her audrey catherine hepburn to become involved in UNICEF late in audrey hepburn - photos life.[5][10]
Early career
In 1945, after the war, Hepburn left audrey hepburn and kathrine hepburn related the Arnhem Conservatory and moved audrey hepburn and pictures to Amsterdam, where she and her mother worked as nurses in a home for wounded audrey hepburn as a ballet dancer veterans. When they completed their nursing audrey hepburn award duties in 1946, Hepburn took ballet lessons with Sonia Gaskell.[15] In 1948, Hepburn went to London and took dancing lessons with the renowned Marie Rambert, audrey hepburn bedding teacher of Vaslav Nijinsky, one of the greatest male dancers in audrey hepburn breakfast history. Hepburn eventually asked Rambert what her audrey hepburn breakfast at tiffany's dolls future would be. Rambert assured Hepburn that she could continue to audrey hepburn clothes work there and have a audrey hepburn cutout great career as a ballerina, but that her height, 5'7", coupled with her poor nutrition audrey hepburn doll during the war would keep her from becoming a audrey hepburn filmography prima ballerina. Hepburn trusted audrey hepburn funeral poem Rambert's advice and decided to pursue acting, a career which she at audrey hepburn gap least had a chance to excel in.[16] After Hepburn became a star, Rambert said in audrey hepburn gap video an interview, "She was a audrey hepburn gigi wonderful learner. If she had wanted to persevere, she might have become an outstanding ballerina."[17] Unfortunately, Hepburn's mother was working audrey hepburn movie monthly club menial jobs to support them. Hepburn had audrey hepburn on film set no money and needed to find a paying job. Since audrey hepburn painting she had trained all her life to be audrey hepburn photoshop a performer, acting was the only sensible career path. She said, "I needed the audrey hepburn purses money; it paid ?3 more than ballet jobs."[18]
Her acting audrey hepburn sabrina photos career started with the educational film, Dutch in Seven Lessons. She audrey hepburn smoking then played in musical theatre in productions such as High Button audrey hepburn stared with sean connery. Shoes and Sauce Piquante. Hepburn's first role in a motion picture was audrey hepburn tattoo in the British film One Wild audrey hepburns pet fawn Oat, in which she played a awesome audrey hepburn costumes hotel receptionist. She played several more minor roles in Young Wives' Tales, Laughter in Paradise, The Lavender biography of audrey hepburn Hill Mob and Monte Carlo Baby. During the filming of breakfast at tiffany's audrey hepburn Monte Carlo Baby, breakfast at tiffany's audrey hepburn clothing Hepburn was chosen to play the lead character in the color pictures audrey hepburn Broadway play Gigi that opened on 24 November 1951. The writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette upon first seeing Hepburn costume designers for audrey hepburn my fair lady reportedly said, "Voilà! There's our Gigi!"[19] She dress replicas audrey hepburn won a Theatre World Award famous quotes by audrey hepburn for her debut performance, and it had gap audrey hepburn video a successful six-month run in New York City.
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Her first how to do audrey hepburn hairstyles significant film performance was in the 1952 film The Secret People, in which she hurbert de givenchy and audrey hepburn played a prodigy ballet dancer. Naturally, life magazine interview audrey hepburn Hepburn did all of her own dancing scenes. Hepburn's first starring role life of audrey hepburn and first American film was opposite Gregory Peck in list of movies audrey hepburn the Hollywood motion picture Roman Holiday. Producers initially wanted Elizabeth Taylor for the role, but myspace layout audrey hepburn director William Wyler was so impressed quotations from audrey hepburn by Hepburn's screen test, in which the camera was left on and replica audrey hepburn dress for sale candid footage of Hepburn relaxing and answering questions was taken, the audrey hepburn story that he cast her in the lead. Wyler said, "She had everything I the gap ads audrey hepburn was looking for: charm, innocence the gap audrey hepburn and talent. She also was very funny. She 1953 film with gregory peck and audrey hepburn was absolutely enchanting, and we said, 'That's the girl!'"[20] The billing was to have Gregory Peck's name above the title in large font with are audrey and katherine hepburn related "introducing Audrey Hepburn" beneath. After are katharine hepburn audrey hepburn related filming had been completed, Peck called his agent and had Hepburn's name equally audrey and katharine hepburn billed with his because he had audrey hepburn + biography predicted that she would win the Oscar. Hepburn audrey hepburn - i could have danced all night and Peck bonded during filming, and there were rumors that they were romantically audrey hepburn a girl wants to dance involved; both denied such claims. Hepburn, however, added, audrey hepburn actress "actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and audrey hepburn and fashion vice versa. If you're going to portray love, you audrey hepburn and mel farrer have to feel it. You can't do it any other way. But you audrey hepburn and poem don't carry it beyond the set."[21] Because of the instant celebrity that came with Roman Holiday, Hepburn's illustration audrey hepburn as gigi was placed on the cover of TIME, September 7, 1953.
Paramount Pictures Publicity Shot, 1953
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Hepburn's performance received much critical praise.
"Although she is not audrey hepburn black dresses precisely a newcomer to films, Audrey Hepburn, audrey hepburn breakfast at tiffany's doll pink dress the British actress who is being starred for the first time as Princess Anne, audrey hepburn breakfast at tiffany's hair is a slender, elfin, and wistful beauty, alternately regal and childlike in her profound appreciation of audrey hepburn breakfest at tiffany's newly-found, simple audrey hepburn bride pleasures and love. Although she bravely smiles her acknowledgment of the end of that affair, she audrey hepburn clayderman remains a pitifully lonely figure audrey hepburn clothes designer facing a stuffy future." - A.H. Weiler, audrey hepburn commercials New York Times, August 28, 1953[22]
After filming Roman Holiday for audrey hepburn costume party four months, Hepburn went back to New York and did eight months of Gigi. The play was audrey hepburn dance in funny face performed in Los Angeles and San Francisco audrey hepburn dancing in its last month. audrey hepburn dark movie She was given a seven-picture contract with Paramount with twelve months in between audrey hepburn death' films to allow her time for stage work.[23]
Hepburn would later call Roman Holiday her audrey hepburn estate dearest movie, because audrey hepburn films it was the one that made her a audrey hepburn funny face pictures star.
Hollywood stardom
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After Roman Holiday she filmed Billy Wilder's Sabrina with Humphrey Bogart and William audrey hepburn gowns Holden. Hepburn was audrey hepburn grayscale sent to fashion designer Givenchy to decide on her wardrobe. audrey hepburn green mansions When told that "Miss Hepburn" was coming to see audrey hepburn hair style him, Givenchy famously expected to see Katharine Hepburn. He was not disappointed with audrey hepburn hairstyle updo Audrey, however, and they formed a lifelong friendship and partnership. During the filming of audrey hepburn hairstyles 50s Sabrina, Hepburn and Holden became romantically involved and audrey hepburn hairstyles pictures she hoped to marry him and audrey hepburn hats have children. She broke off the relationship when Holden revealed audrey hepburn hi-res that he had had a vasectomy.[24][25]
In 1954, Audrey audrey hepburn history went back to the stage to play the audrey hepburn in a swimsuit water sprite in Ondine in a performance with Mel Ferrer, whom she would audrey hepburn jennifer love hewitt wed later that year. During the run of the play, Hepburn was awarded the Golden audrey hepburn katherine hepburn Globe for "Best Motion Picture audrey hepburn la vie en rose Actress" and the Academy Award for Best Actress, both for Roman Holiday. Six audrey hepburn layout weeks after receiving the Oscar, Hepburn was awarded the Tony Award for audrey hepburn makeup tips Best Actress for Ondine.
By the mid 1950s, Hepburn was audrey hepburn married not only one of the biggest motion picture stars audrey hepburn movie collection in Hollywood, but she audrey hepburn movie lists also came to be regarded as a major style icon. Her gamine and elfin appearance audrey hepburn movie posters and widely recognized audrey hepburn movie sabrina sense of chic were both admired and imitated. In 1955, she was audrey hepburn myspace icons awarded the Golden Globe - World Film Favorite - Female.
Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, audrey hepburn photo Audrey Hepburn co-starred with other major actors such as audrey hepburn pink myspace layouts Fred Astaire in Funny Face, Maurice Chevalier and Gary Cooper audrey hepburn pop art in Love in the Afternoon, George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cary audrey hepburn postcards Grant audrey hepburn riding a bicycle in the critically acclaimed hit Charade, Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, Peter O'Toole in audrey hepburn royal holiday How to Steal a Million, and audrey hepburn royal holiday pictures Sean Connery in Robin and Marian. Many of these audrey hepburn sabrina study in paris leading men became very close to her. Rex Harrison called Audrey his favourite leading lady; Cary Grant audrey hepburn skinny black pants dance loved audrey hepburn styles to humor her and once said, "all I want for Christmas is another picture with audrey hepburn success Audrey Hepburn;"[26] and audrey hepburn sun glasses Gregory Peck became a lifelong friend. After her death, Peck went audrey hepburn timeline on camera and tearfully recited her favorite poem, "Unending Love" by Rabindranath Tagore.[27] Some believe Bogart audrey hepburn video and Hepburn did not get along, but this is untrue. audrey hepburn wallpapers galleries Bogart got along better with Hepburn than anyone else audrey hepburn wedding flowers on set. audrey hepburn wikipedia Hepburn later said, "Sometimes it's the so-called 'tough guys' that audrey hepburn william holden affair are the most tender hearted, as Bogey was with me."[28]
Funny Face in 1957 was one of Hepburn's favorite movies to audrey hepburns sons film because she got to dance with Fred Astaire. The Nun's Story in breakfast at tiffany's - audrey hepburn 1959 was one of Hepburn's most cardboard cutout audrey hepburn daring roles. Films in Review stated, "her performance will forever silence those who have thought her charade poster audrey hepburn less an actress than a symbol classic audrey hepburn haircuts of the sophisticated child/woman. Her portrayal of dresses audrey hepburn Sister Luke is one of the great performances of the screen."[29]
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Hepburn's performance as gary cooper audrey hepburn Holly Golightly in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's resulted in one givenchy audrey hepburn designs of the most iconic characters in 20th Century how did audrey hepburn die American cinema. Hepburn called the role, "the jazziest of my career."[30] Asked how did audrey hepburn keep her figure about the acting challenge of the role, how tall was audrey hepburn Hepburn said, "I'm an introvert. Playing the extroverted hubert de givenchy and audrey hepburn girl was the hardest thing I ever did."[31] She wore trendy clothing jennifer love hewitt as audrey hepburn designed by her and Givenchy and added blonde katharine hepburn and audrey hepburn streaks to her brown hair, a look that she would makeup tips for audrey hepburn eyes keep off-screen as well.
Hepburn had cemented herself as moon river audrey hepburn mp3 one of Hollywood's greatest actresses, right alongside Marilyn Monroe. In fact, Monroe was not moon river- audrey hepburn the only one to sing to President John F Kennedy moonriver audrey hepburn on his birthday. For Kennedy's next (and last) birthday on May 29, 1963, Hepburn, the movie the unforgiven audrey hepburn President's favorite actress, sang "Happy Birthday, movies with audrey hepburn and shirley mclaine dear Jack" to him.[32] Despite her stardom, Hepburn retained her humility throughout life. natalie portman audrey hepburn She preferred a more quiet living with family and nature. ondine audrey hepburn She lived in houses, not mansions, and photos audrey hepburn she loved to garden.
Universal Pictures photos of audrey hepburns children Publicity Shot of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in photos of audrey hepburns daughter Charade circa 1963
In 1963, Hepburn starred pica of audrey hepburn in Charade, her first and only film with Cary Grant, who had previously withdrawn from poster audrey hepburn the starring roles in Roman Holiday and Sabrina. In pregnant audrey hepburn 1964, Hepburn starred in My Fair Lady which quote and audrey hepburn and black dress was said to be the sabrina - audrey hepburn most anticipated movie since Gone With The Wind.[33] Hepburn was the gap commercial audrey hepburn cast as Eliza Doolittle instead of then-unknown Julie Andrews, who had originated the role unesco audrey hepburn on Broadway. The decision not to cast Andrews was made before Hepburn video clips of audrey hepburn was cast for the role. Hepburn initially refused wallpapers audrey hepburn the role and asked Jack Warner to give it to Andrews, watch audrey hepburn videos free but when they informed her that it william holden and audrey hepburn would either be her or Elizabeth Taylor, who was vying for the role, she decided to take the part. According to an article in Soundstage magazine, "everyone agreed that if Julie Andrews was not to be in the film, Audrey Hepburn was the perfect choice."[34] Julie Andrews had yet to make Mary Poppins, which was released within the same year as My Fair Lady. Hepburn recorded singing vocals for the role, but subsequently discovered a professional "singing double" Marni Nixon had overdubbed all of her songs. She walked off the set after being told of the dubbing and returned early the next day to apologize for her behavior. Footage of several songs with Hepburn's original vocals still exist and have been included in documentaries and the DVD release of the film, though to date, only Nixon's renditions have been released on LP and CD. Some of her original vocals remained in the film, such as "Just You Wait" and snippets from "I Could Have Danced All Night." When asked about the dubbing of an actress with such distinctive vocal tones, Hepburn frowned and said, "you could tell, couldn't you? And there was Rex, recording all his songs as he acted...next time-" She then bit her lip to keep from saying any more.[35] Aside from the dubbing, many critics agreed that Hepburn's performance was excellent. Gene Ringgold said, "Audrey Hepburn is magnificent. She is Eliza for the ages."[36]
DVD cover of Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle with Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady
The controversy over Hepburn's casting reached its height at the 1964-65 Academy Awards season, when Hepburn was not nominated for best actress while Andrews was nominated for Mary Poppins. The media tried to play up the rivalry between the two actresses as the ceremony approached, even though both women denied such bad feelings existed and got along well. Julie Andrews won "Best Actress" at the ceremony.
Two For The Road was a non-linear and innovative movie about divorce. Director Stanley Donen said that Hepburn was more free and happy than he had ever seen her, and he accredited that to Albert Finney.[37] Wait Until Dark in 1967 was a difficult film to do. It was an edgy thriller in which Hepburn played the part of a blind woman being terrorized. In addition, it was produced by Mel Ferrer and filmed on the brink of their divorce. Hepburn is said to have lost 15 pounds under the stress. On the bright side, she found co-star Richard Crenna to be very funny, and she had a lot to laugh about with director Terence Young. They both joked that he had shelled his favorite star 23 years before; Terence Young had been a British Army tank commander during the Battle of Arnhem. Hepburn's performance was nominated for an Academy Award.
From 1967 onward, after fifteen highly successful years in film, Hepburn acted only occasionally. After her divorce from first husband Mel Ferrer, she married Italian psychiatrist Dr. Andrea Dotti and had a second son, after a difficult pregnancy that required near-total bed rest. After her eventual separation from Dotti, she attempted a comeback, co-starring with Sean Connery in the period piece Robin and Marian in 1976, which was moderately successful. She reportedly turned down the tailor-made role of a former ballet dancer in The Turning Point. (Shirley MacLaine got the part.) Hepburn finally returned to cinema in 1979, taking the leading role in Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline. Author Sidney Sheldon revised his novel when it was reissued to tie into the film, making Hepburn's character older to better match the actress' age. The film was a critical and box office failure.
Hepburn's last starring role in a cinematic film was with Ben Gazzara in the comedy They All Laughed, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Although a critical success, the film was overshadowed by the murder of one of its stars, Bogdanovich's girlfriend, Dorothy Stratten; the film was released after Stratten's death but played only limited runs. In 1987, she co-starred with Robert Wagner in a tongue-in-cheek made-for-television caper film, Love Among Thieves which borrowed elements from several of Hepburn's films, most notably Charade and How to Steal a Million. The TV-film, which also starred Jerry Orbach as a villain, was only a moderate success, with Hepburn being quoted that she appeared in it just for fun.
Hepburn's last film role, a cameo appearance, was of an angel in Steven Spielberg's Always, filmed in 1988. This film was also only moderately successful. In the final months of her life Hepburn completed two entertainment-related projects: she hosted a television documentary series entitled Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn, which debuted on PBS the day of her death, and she also recorded a spoken word album, Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales featuring readings of classic children's stories, which would win her a posthumous Grammy Award.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1652 Vine Street.
Marriages, family, and later life
In the early 1950s she was engaged to the young James Hanson.[38] She called it "love at first sight;" however, after having her wedding dress fitted and date set, she decided the marriage would not work, due to the demands of their careers that would keep them apart most of the time.[39] She had the wedding dress given to a poor Italian couple, who still have it today. citation needed]
Hepburn did marry, twice: to American actor Mel Ferrer and to an Italian doctor, Andrea Dotti, and had a son with each—Sean in 1960 by Ferrer, and Luca in 1970 by Dotti.
Hepburn met Mel Ferrer at a party hosted by Gregory Peck. She had seen him in the film Lili and was captivated by his performance. Ferrer later sent Hepburn the script for the play Ondine and Hepburn agreed to the role. Rehearsals started in January 1954 and Hepburn and Ferrer were married on September 25.[40] Hepburn and Ferrer were constantly together and Hepburn had nothing but adoration for him. She did, however, admit that he had a bad temper.[41] Ferrer was rumored to be too controlling of Hepburn; he was called her Svengali.[42] William Holden was quoted as saying, "I think Audrey allows Mel to think he influences her."
Before having their first child, Hepburn had two miscarriages, the first of which was in March of 1955. In 1959, while filming The Unforgiven, Hepburn broke her back after falling off a horse onto a rock. She spent weeks in the hospital and later had a miscarriage that was said to have been induced by physical and mental stress. While she was resting at home, Mel Ferrer brought her the fawn from the movie Green Mansions to keep as a pet. They called him Ip, short for Pippin. In 1965, she had another miscarriage. Hepburn was much more careful when she was pregnant with Luca in 1969; she rested for months and passed the time by painting before delivering Luca by caesarean section. Hepburn had her final miscarriage in 1974.[43] Hepburn is famous for the poem "Time Tested Beauty Tips" which she used to recite to her sons. The poem includes verses such as, "For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day", and, "For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry." The poem is popularly attributed to her, but it was in fact written by Sam Levenson.
Hepburn had several pets, including a Yorkshire Terrier named Mr. Famous, who was hit by a car and killed. To cheer her up, Mel Ferrer got her another Yorkshire named Assam of Assam. She also kept Ip the fawn as a pet; they made a bed for him out of a bathtub. Sean Ferrer had a Cocker Spaniel named Cokey. When Hepburn was older, she had two Jack Russell Terriers.
The marriage to Ferrer lasted 14 years until 5 December 1968; their son was quoted as saying that Hepburn had stayed in the marriage too long. In the later years of the marriage, Ferrer was rumored to have had a girlfriend on the side, while Hepburn was rumored to have had an affair with her younger Two For The Road co-star Albert Finney. Hepburn denied these rumors, but director Stanley Donen said, "with Albert Finney she was like a new woman. She and Albie have a wonderful thing together; they are like a couple of kids. When Mel wasn't on set they sparkled. When Mel was there, it was funny. Audrey and Albie would go rather formal and a little awkward.[44] They separated before divorcing. During their separation, Hepburn lost even more weight. She met Italian psychologist Andrea Dotti on a cruise and fell in love with him on a trip to Greek ruins. She believed she would have many children, and possibly stop working. She married him on 18 January 1969. Although Dotti loved Hepburn and was well-liked by Sean, who called him "fun", Dotti had affairs with younger women. The marriage lasted 13 years and ended in 1982 after Luca and Sean were old enough to handle life with a single mother. Though Hepburn had broken off all contact with Ferrer, she remained in touch with Dotti for the benefit of Luca.
At the time of her death, she was the companion of Robert Wolders, a handsome Dutch actor who was the widower of film star Merle Oberon. She met Wolders through a friend, in the later stage of her marriage to Dotti. Six months later, they met again for a drink, which turned into dinner. After Hepburn's divorce from Dotti was final, she and Wolders started their lives together, although they never married. In 1989, after nine years with him, she called them the happiest years of her life. "Took me long enough", she said in an interview with Barbara Walters. Walters then asked why Hepburn had never married Wolders. Hepburn replied that they were married, just not formally. Hepburn and Wolders planned the UNICEF trips together. At every one of her speeches, Wolders would watch and sometimes shed tears.
Work for UNICEF
Soon after Hepburn's final film role, she was appointed a special ambassador to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Grateful for her own good fortune after being a victim of the Nazi occupation as a child, she dedicated the remainder of her life to helping impoverished children in the world's poorest nations. Hepburn's travels were made easier by her wide knowledge of languages; she spoke French, Italian, English, Dutch/Flemish, and Spanish. She learned Italian while living in Rome. She learned Spanish on her own, and there is UNICEF footage of her in Mexico speaking fluent Spanish to locals.
Though she had done work for UNICEF in the 1950s, starting in 1954 with radio presentations, this was a much higher dedication. Those close to her 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. She visited an orphanage in Mek'ele with 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] [sic] not because there isn't tons of food sitting in the northern port of Shoa. 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. 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."[45]
In August of 1988, Hepburn went to Turkey on an immunization campaign. She called Turkey "the most lovely 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. In Venezuela and Ecuador, Hepburn told 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."
Hepburn toured Central America in February, 1989, and met with chiefs in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. In April, Hepburn visited Sudan with Robert Wolders as part of a mission called "Operation Lifeline." Due to civil war, food from aid agencies had been cut off. The mission was to ferry food to southern Sudan. 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. 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 of 1990, Hepburn went to Vietnam in an effort to collaborate with the government for national UNICEF-supported immunization and clean water programs.
In September of 1992, 4 months before she died, Hepburn went to Somalia. Hepburn called it "apocalyptic" and 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." "The earth is red — an extraordinary sight — that deep terra-cotta 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."
Though forever 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 politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics." "Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. 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." "People in these places don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize 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."
In 1992, President George Bush presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded her The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her contribution to humanity. This was awarded posthumously, and her son accepted the award on her behalf.
In 2006, the Sustainable Style Foundation inaugurated the "Style & Substance Award in Honor of Audrey Hepburn" to recognize high profile individuals that work to improve the quality of life for children around the world. The first award was given to Hepburn posthumously and received by the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.
Cancer
In late 1992, Hepburn began to feel pains in her abdomen, which turned out to be a rare form of cancer that originated in the appendix. Hepburn had surgery in a Los Angeles hospital, but the cancer continued to spread and doctors decided that another surgery would not help. Hepburn had been a lifelong smoker. Studies have found that women who smoke are more than 40% more likely to die from colorectal cancer than women who never have smoked.[46]
Hepburn died of colorectal cancer on 20 January 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland, and was interred there. She was 63.
Enduring popularity
Window of a GAP store
Audrey Hepburn to this day is a beauty and fashion icon. She has often been called one of the most beautiful women of all time.[47][48] Her fashion styles also continue to be popular among women.[49] Contrary to her recent image, although Hepburn did enjoy fashion, she did not place much importance on it. She preferred casual, comfortable clothes.[50] In addition, she never considered herself to be very attractive. She said in a 1959 interview, "you can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. 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."[51]
A 2003 USPS commemorative stamp.
To date only one biographical film based upon Audrey Hepburn's life has been attempted. The 2000 American made-for-television film, The Audrey Hepburn Story, starred Jennifer Love Hewitt as the actress. Hewitt also co-produced the film. The film received poor reviews due to numerous factual errors and for Hewitt's performance. The film concludes with footage of the real Audrey Hepburn, shot during one of her final missions for UNICEF. Several versions of the film exist; it was aired as a mini-series in some countries, and in a truncated version on America's ABC television network, which is also the version released on DVD in North America.
In 2003, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp illustrated by Michael J. Deas[52] honouring her as a Hollywood legend and humanitarian. It has a drawing of her which is based on a publicity photo from the movie Sabrina. Hepburn is one of the few non-Americans to be so honoured.
An advertisement for green tea in China
Hepburn's image is still widely used in advertising campaigns across the world. In China, a series of commercials used colorized and digitally enhanced clips of Hepburn in Roman Holiday to advertise a green tea product. In the US, Hepburn was featured in a GAP commercial which ran from September 7, 2006 to October 5, 2006. 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.[53] The commercial was popular, with approximately 200,000 users viewing it on YouTube.
Hepburn's "little black dress" from Breakfast at Tiffany's sold at a Christie's auction on December 5, 2006, for ￡467,200 (approximately $920,000), seven times its ￡70,000 pre-sale estimate. This is the highest price paid for a dress from a film. 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. 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." A second version of the dress is held in the Givenchy archives, while the third is displayed in the Museum of Costume in Madrid.[54]
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Filmography
Year Title Role Other notes
1948 Nederlands in 7 lessen
(English: "Dutch in Seven Lessons") Airline Stewardess Documentary
1950 One Wild Oat Hotel receptionist
1951 Laughter in Paradise Cigarette Girl
Young Wives' Tale Eve Lester
The Lavender Hill Mob Chiquita
1952 The Secret People Nora Brentano
Monte Carlo Baby Linda Farrell Discovered by French novelist Colette during filming and cast as Gigi for the Broadway play
Nous irons à Monte Carlo
(English: "We Will Go to Monte Carlo") Melissa Walter French version of Monte Carlo Baby
1953 Roman Holiday Princess Ann Academy Award Winner; Golden Globe Winner; BAFTA Award Winner; New York Film Critics Circle Award Winner
1954 Sabrina Sabrina Fairchild Academy Award Nomination; BAFTA Award Nomination
1956 War and Peace Natasha Rostov Golden Globe Nomination; BAFTA Award Nomination
1957 Funny Face Jo
Love in the Afternoon Ariane Chavasse/Thin Girl Golden Globe Nomination; Golden Laurel Winner
1959 Green Mansions Rima Directed by Mel Ferrer
The Nun's Story Sister Luke (Gabrielle van der Mal) Academy Award Nomination; Golden Globe Nomination; BAFTA Award Winner; New York Film Critics Circle Winner; Zulueta Prize Winner
1960 The Unforgiven Rachel Zachary
1961 Breakfast at Tiffany's Holly Golightly Academy Award Nomination
The Children's Hour Karen Wright
1963 Charade Regina Lampert Golden Globe Nomination; BAFTA Award Winner
1964 Paris, When It Sizzles Gabrielle Simpson
My Fair Lady Eliza Doolittle Golden Globe Nomination
1966 How to Steal a Million Nicole Bonnet
1967 Two For The Road Joanna Wallace Golden Globe Nomination
Wait Until Dark Susy Hendrix Academy Award Nomination; Golden Globe Nomination
1976 Robin and Marian Lady Marian
1979 Bloodline Elizabeth Roffe
1981 They All Laughed Angela Niotes
1989 Always Hap
Television and theatre
Year Title Role Other notes
1949 High Button Shoes Chorus Girl Musical Theatre
Sauce Tartare Chorus Girl Musical Theatre
1950 Sauce Piquante Featured Player Musical Theatre
1951 Gigi Gigi Opened on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre, November 24, 1951. Hepburn won the 1952 Theatre World Award.
1952 CBS Television Workshop Episode entitled "Rainy Day at Paradise Junction"
1954 Ondine Water Nymph Opened on Broadway, February 18 - June 26. Tony Award Winner - Best Actress. Costarring Mel Ferrer
1957 Mayerling Maria Vetsera Producers' Showcase live production. Costarring Mel Ferrer as Prince Rudolf. Released theatrically in Europe.
1987 Love Among Thieves Baroness Caroline DuLac Television movie.
1993 Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn Herself PBS miniseries; Emmy Award Winner - Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming
According to some biographies, Hepburn made several American and British TV appearances before Roman Holiday,citation needed] and a poster for a 1951 British public appearance listed her as a TV actress.citation needed] "Rainy Day" is the only example of this early work to have surfaced. A copy of this production exists in the Museum of Radio and Television archives in Beverly Hills, California and New York City, New York.citation needed]
Awards
She won the 1953 Academy Award for Best Actress for Roman Holiday. She was nominated for Best Actress four more times; for Sabrina, The Nun's Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Wait Until Dark.
There was Oscar controversy in 1964 when Audrey was not nominated for her performance as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, one of her most acclaimed performances.
For her 1967 nomination, the Academy chose her performance in Wait Until Dark over her critically acclaimed performance in Two For The Road. She lost to Katharine Hepburn (in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner).
Audrey Hepburn was one of the few people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award.
Academy Award: Best Actress for Roman Holiday (1954) and posthumous The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1993).
Tony Award: Best Actress for Ondine (1954) and Special Achievement award (1968).
Grammy Award: Best Spoken Word Album for Children (1993) for Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales (posthumous).
Emmy Award: Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming (1993) for the "Flower Gardens" episode of her documentary series, Gardens of the World (posthumous).
In addition, Hepburn won the Henrietta Award in 1955 for the world's favorite actress, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1990 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1992. Hepburn was posthumously awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award later in 1993.[55]
In December 1992, one month before her death, Hepburn received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work in UNICEF.[56] This is one of the two highest awards a civilian can receive in the United States.[57][58]
Awards
Preceded by:
Shirley Booth
for Come Back, Little Sheba Academy Award for Best Actress
1953
for Roman Holiday Succeeded by:
Grace Kelly
for The Country Girl
Full Biography, hope it isn't too much :/