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Audrey Hepburn
4 May 1929
Audrey Hepburn played in 16 movies in the Drama, Romance, Comedy, Music, War, Musical, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Family, Crime genres.
Audrey Hepburn got succeed with average imdb rating 7.1.
Was prime choice for the lead in A Taste of Honey (1961).
Ranked #50 in Empire (UK) arsenal's "The Top 100 Moving picture Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Progenitrix of Sean H. Ferrer, with first husband, Mel Ferrer.
Son, Luca Dotti (b. 8 February 1970), with second husband, Dr. Andrea Dotti.
Chosen by People journal as inseparable of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. [1990]
After Rest period Until Dark (1967) was offered the leads in 40 Carats (1973), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and The Turning Consideration (1977) but decided to stay in retirement and drag together her sons.
... Interred in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film depiction (#8). [1995]
Turned down the film Gigi (1958) after creating the distinction in the Broadway non musical play.
Everyone remembers when Marilyn Monroe serenaded President John F. Kennedy on his birthday in 1962. What is over forgotten is that Audrey Hepburn sang "Gleeful Birthday Mr. President" to JFK for his terminating birthday in 1963.
Had a breed of tulip named after her in 1990.
Died on January 20, 1993, the 67th birthday of Patricia Neal. They starred together in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
She won the 1953 To the fullest extent Actress Academy Award in favour of Roman Red-letter day (1953). On Walk 25th, 1954, she accepted the award from the much revered Academy president Jean Hersholt. After accepting the apportion, Audrey kissed him smack on the mouth, instead of the cheek, in her tumult. Minutes after accepting her 1953 Oscar, Audrey realized that she'd misplaced it. Turning with all speed on the steps of the Center Theater in New York, she raced second to the ladies' room, retrieved the prize, and was friendly to place towards photographs.
Christened altogether Audrey Kathleen Ruston, her mother Baroness Ella Van Heemstra temporarily changed the actress' luminary from Audrey to Edda during the war, feeling that "Audrey" might indicate her British roots too strongly. During the conflict, being English in occupied Holland was not an asset; it could obtain attracted the notice of the occupying German forces and resulted in confinement or even deportation. After the war, her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, establish documents nearby his ancestors, some of whom stab the superstar Hepburn. This is when he added it to his big name, which caused her daughter to have to legally add Hepburn to her celebrity as well, therefore Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston.
Was polished in English, Spanish, French, Dutch/Flemish and Italian.
Was briefly considered for the particular role in Cleopatra (1963) but the portion went to Elizabeth Taylor
She confessed to eating tulip bulbs and tried to bake betray into bread during the heartily days of World War II.
Audrey felt that she was miscast as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) although it was one of her most popular roles.
Was trained as a dental assistant before making it magnanimous.
Dead her disown during filming of a horse-riding scene in _Unforgiven, The (1960)_
Henry Mancini said of her: "'Moon River' was written for the sake of her. No one else had continuously settled it so quite. There have been more than a thousand versions of 'Moon River', but hers is inquestionably the greatest".
Turned down a impersonation in the veil The Log of Anne Open and above-board (1959) because, as a girlish girl in Holland during the battle, she had witnessed Nazi soldiers publicly executing people in the streets and herding Jews onto railroad cars to be sent to the termination camps. She said that participating in the film would pen up encourage too many vexing memories for her.
Humphrey Bogart, Hepburn also starred in five of the movies listed nearby American Cover Alliance in its Top 100 U.S. love stories (2002). They are Roman Holiday (1953), ranked #4 on the list, Sabrina (1954) ranked #54, which co-starred Bogart, My Fair Lady (1964) ranked #12, Two for the Low road (1967) at #57 and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) #61.
During World Against II, 16-year-one-time Audrey was a volunteer tend in a Dutch dispensary. During the contest of Arnhem, Hepburn's hospital received many wounded Allied soldiers. Joke of the injured soldiers babyish Audrey helped nurse rear to health was a na‹ve British paratrooper - and future commander - named Terence Young. More than 20 years later, Minor directed Hepburn in Deferred Until Abstruse (1967).
Measurements: 34A-20-34 (as recorded in 1953), (Originator: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
In 1954, she was presented with her Best Actress Oscar suited for Roman Celebration (1953) at hand Jean Hersholt. In 1993, she was posthumously awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Trophy.
In Arnhem, Holland, during the Alternative World Fighting, she worked with the Dutch Underground, giving ballet performances to collect donations on the anti-Nazi effort.
Presented the Rout Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards four times (in 1955, 1960, 1966, and 1975) more than any other actress.
Told People Arsenal that she was surely self-conscious relative to her range-10 feet.
She was voted the 21st Greatest Big Star of all time away Entertainment Weekly.
In 1993 she became the thirteenth performer to win the Triple Crown of Acting. Oscar - Greatest Actress for Roman Holiday (1953), Tony for Best bib Actress in a Put cooperate for "Ondine" (1954) and Emmy for Outstanding Person Achievement - Informational Programming on "Gardens of the Wonderful with Audrey Hepburn" (1993).
Was frame interior decorator Hubert de Givenchy's be absorbed in thought, who dressed her benefit of the films Sabrina (1954), Zany Sheathe (1957), Love in the Afternoon (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Paris - When It Sizzles (1964), How to Pirate a Million (1966), Charade (1963) and Love Bulk Thieves (1987) (TV).
In 1996 the British munitions dump Harpers & Queen conducted a returns to find the most fascinating women of our time. She was in the #1 spot.
As of 2005, she is one of however nine performers to win an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy Grant.
She was of Belgian, Dutch, English and Irish descent.
Followed winning the Academy Award in regard to Roman Holiday (1953) with successful Broadway's 1954 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "Ondine."
Voted #1 in TheAge.com's Lop 100: Natural Beauties of all beat.
She owned a Yorkshire Terrier called "Mr. Famous".
She was voted the 18th Greatest Movie Star of all point by Premiere Magazine.
Was named #3 on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends
Her biggest film regret was not getting the Anne Bancroft situation in The Turning Something (1977). "That was the a particular film", she later admitted, "that got away from me."
Is portrayed not later than Jennifer Ardour Hewitt in The Audrey Hepburn News (2000) (TV)
When she failed to receive an Academy Award-nomination towards her post as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (1964), Katharine Hepburn wired her with a message of animation: "Don't bother about it. You'll released it equal epoch because a let go that doesn't in any event it." Ironically, when Audrey's next (and mould) nomination came for Wait Until Incomprehensible (1967) in 1967, Hepburn beat her in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - in a partake of that arguably didn't rate it.
Her character in Funny En face (1957) was inspired by Suzy Parker, who made a fashionable cameo appearance in the smokescreen (her first film) in the "Think Pink" sequence.
According to her biography, "Audrey Hepburn: An Tete-…-tete Likeness", she made a vow to herself never to overshadow 103 pounds. With the exception of her pregnancies, she succeeded.
Turned down the title function in Gigi (1958) to offset Funny Face (1957). Ironically, her agent initially rejected the layer, but Hepburn overrode the verdict after reading the handwriting. Her genesis, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, makes a cameo bearing as a sidewalk caf? patron, and her Yorkshire terrier "Mr. Pre-eminent" appears as the dog in the basket during the "Anna Karenina" train before you can say 'Jack Robinson' no way. Hepburn did not hanker after to be separated from husband Mel Ferrer, so filming of the Paris scenes was timed to equal with Ferrer's filming of Elena et les hommes (1956). Paris' unseasonably rainy weather had to be worked into the script, particularly during the balloons photo hurtle scene. During filming of the Paris scenes, much of the crew and cast aside were on edge because of riots and civil violence that were gripping the city. The soggy bear up against played havoc with the shooting of the nuptials haul someone over the coals hop scene. Both Fred Astaire and Hepburn were continually slipping in the still and slippery betray. In "Bizarre Face" she was lucky enough to tattle several songs. Her next obsessed musical, My Fete Lady (1964), had her singing voice dubbed by Marni Nixon, much to Hepburn's disappointment. The expression portrayal unveiled in the darkroom sight was photographed by Richard Avedon. The film was shot uphold-to-bankroll b reverse with Love in the Afternoon (1957).
According to head William Friedkin, Audrey was Warner Bros. maiden choice as far as something the role of Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973) after her box-job successes with the studio's The Nun's Myth (1959), My Fair Lady (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967). She would only agree to star if the dusting were made in Rome. Both Friedkin and author William Peter Blatty rejected the plan.
Her performance as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) is ranked #32 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Circumstance (2006).
Asked for the put asunder give up of Emma Jacklin in The Turning Point (1977) but Anne Bancroft had already been shipwreck throw off in the r“le.
Hepburn was diagnosed with appendiceal cancer in 1992 (not colon cancer, as it is over mistakenly called). The cancer spread into the lining of her small intestine. She had one foot of intestine removed in surgery and went through chemotherapy, but in a second surgery it was decided that the cancer had spread too make a name for oneself and could not be treated.
Lived together with Robert Wolders in the unchangeable years of her life.
The US Postal Putting into play issued a 37 cent commemorative mould honoring her as a Hollywood legend and humanitarian (2003).
Her famous "Lilliputian malicious accouter" from Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), designed about Hubert de Givenchy, was sold at a Christie's auction for approaching $920,000 (5 December 2006).
Was voted "most wonderful missus of all ease" by the readers of "New Lassie" publication (2006).
Godmother of Victoria Brynner, the daughter of Doris Kleiner and Yul Brynner.
Saved the vital spark of her friend Capucine (who attempted suicide on several occasions).
In Italy she was virtually exclusively dubbed close to Maria Pia Di Meo, except in her outset two films (Roman Gala (1953) (Vacanze Romane) and Sabrina (1954)) and in Green Mansions (1959) (Verdi dimore), where she was dubbed during Fiorella Betti.
She was presented with her 1953 Pre-eminent Actress Oscar for the sake of "Roman Holiday" by actor and humanitarian Jean Hersholt. Forty years later she would posthumously receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Apportion by the Academy of Motion Idea Arts and Sciences to her manage with UNICEF.
As of 2007, she and Katharine Hepburn are the only "Best Actress" Oscar-winners to a pattern dub. Of course, they are not interdependent.
Met tomorrow husband Mel Ferrer at a blow-out hosted by Gregory Peck. It was Ferrer who sent Hepburn the script for "Ondine", which Hepburn agreed to play on Broadway, in which the couple co-starred.
Godfather of her first toddler, Sean H. Ferrer, was Scottish pencil-pusher, A.J. Cronin.
Was friends with Eva Gabor.
Once admitted that she would not accept accepted the role of Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady (1964) if she had known that producer Jack L. Warner planned to secure all of her singing dubbed.
Hepburn was offered the task of a Japanese bride contradictory Marlon Brando in Sayonara (1957) but turned it down. She later explained that she "couldn't mayhap toy with an Oriental. No joined would believe me; they'd laugh. It's a alluring script, however I be acquainted with what I can and can't do. And if you did persuade me, you would guilt it, because I would be terrible".
Broke her in dire straits during filming of a horse-riding location in The Unforgiven (1960).
Won a 1968 Special Tony Apportion (New York City).
Although not diagnosed with appendicular cancer until 1 November 1992, her son Sean Ferrer believes it had unquestionably been developing over the routine of the foregoing five years.
Was considered instead of the part of Tony Gromeko in Doctor Zhivago (1965), but Geraldine Chaplin was cast instead.
Was a close friend of French actress Capucine.
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