Posted on 07/03/2024 9:17:45 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Audrey, a documentary by 26-year-old British film-maker Helena Coan, comes from the producers of the Bafta-nominated McQueen, about the life of fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and is packed with revelations about one of the most enduring of all Hollywood’s stars.
Throughout her career, Hepburn came to be seen as the epitome of elegance and grace. Born into European nobility in 1929 but devastated by the impact of the second world war as a child in the Netherlands, Hepburn kept a tight lid on her personal problems until her death in 1993 from cancer.
Coan, who spent three years researching her subject and edited the film through the spring lockdown, told the Observer she was stunned by the contrast between Hepburn’s image and the truth of her darker days. “She’s seen as this paragon of perfection and beauty, but the film was about showing the person underneath that. She suffered massively with insecurities about her looks and with men, and to hear her link them to her relationship with her father and her deep abandonment issues, to hear those intimate details was so strange. It was such a twist for someone who had always been so private,” said Coan.
The impact two difficult marriages had on her is a key section of the film…
The film shows how Hepburn tried to find her father 25 years after she had lost contact with him…Hepburn eventually located him through the Red Cross…the experience was cold and left her bitter and hurt.
Still, throughout her life, she was acutely aware of the power of her celebrity and the platform it gave her, be it in influencing fashion or during her humanitarian work. The latter, said Coan, was where Hepburn’s passion later in life offered a reprieve from the hurt she felt for so long.
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America was on a 42-month long diet:
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One of my favorite movies is “Charade” with Audrey and Cary Grant. She wore the most beautiful clothes in the movie.
Without a doubt, Audrey Hepburn had it going on. Once upon a time, starlets like her and Grace Kelly had sex appeal... and class. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
So, she had real issues ... sorta like the rest of us. There is sympathy to be given in this regard as too many suffer silently.
She and her Mother had to eat tulip bulbs to survive.
Reese Witherspoon, maybe?
Seems to me, Kate was jealous of Meryl Streep. Many top entertainers got to the top by being fiercely competitive.
That harsh attitude of judging other peers never leaves them, not even after they have ceased being bankable actors.
Musicians too. Joni Mitchell is well known for her jealousy of Bob Dylan. She called his success “fake”.
Yes...that’s the one!
I tried posting it multiple ways, I even took a screen capture and put it out there, but it consistently displayed a black square when I did so. Very odd.
First time I ever saw Hepburn on screen was when I was in 7th grade junior high school. The principal announced they would be showing weekly films in the auditorium, after school at 3pm.
I saw her in “Wait Until Dark” with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Also Richard Crenna and Alan Arkin were the bad guys. She played a blind girl terrorized by three hoodlums looking for a doll filled with heroin. As a kid, the movie scared the hell out of me even though it was not a horror film.
“ She was by far one of the most beautiful women who has ever graced the silver screen.”
Absolutely. And Grace Kelly was a very close second. IMHO
A father is not a “worldly thing”. He is a requirement for children. Children born abandoned by their fathers are permanently damaged by that loss.
It’s no doubt why fornication has always been a sin and marriage is the foundation of all human societies.
Also, it’s too bad social science is a leftist tool now. They used to teach the truth about the importance of the family and the consequences of it’s destruction.
Watched that one last night.
Really showed off French culture at that time.
I never knew she was 5’7”.
She was so gamine I thought she was shorter.
Most attractive actress I’ve ever seen.
Pit-a-pat goes my ❤️
Those *eyes*!
Yup. A lot of male actors had to wear lifts or stand on something so they'd look taller.
I had a co-worker who was about her same age who also lived through the Nazi occupation. His stories were tragic. As an adult his teeth would bust from internal rot and he had them all removed. Entire occupation he had one egg and he could describe it as heaven.
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