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‘The best-kept secret about Audrey Hepburn is that she was so sad’
The Guardian ^ | Nosheen Iqbal

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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Books/Literature; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: audreyhepburn; hepburn; hollywood; movies; unicef; wboopi
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Just about my all-time favorite. Lover her in Sabrina.
21 posted on 07/03/2024 11:05:51 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

America was on a 42-month long diet:

https://www.quora.com/What-were-some-of-the-items-rationed-in-the-U-S-during-World-War-2


22 posted on 07/03/2024 11:06:40 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

One of my favorite movies is “Charade” with Audrey and Cary Grant. She wore the most beautiful clothes in the movie.


23 posted on 07/03/2024 11:19:56 PM PDT by Tea Drinker (Live From Sunny Tucson)
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To: Liz

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.


24 posted on 07/03/2024 11:26:19 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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.


25 posted on 07/03/2024 11:38:00 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: lee martell
Taylor in A Place in the Sun and Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf are two of my favorites of hers. In the 1960s and later I agree she became mostly a way to sell gossip and celebrity magazines.
“Meryl Streep was [Hepburn’s] least favourite actress onscreen,” Berg writes in Kate Remembered. It seems that Hepburn was fixated on Streep, utterly dumbfounded by the praise of an actor she deemed sub-par. Berg recalls Hepburn deriding Streep’s technique: “‘Click, click, click,’ she said, referring to the wheels turning inside [Streep’s] head.”
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-katharine-hepburn-hated-meryl-streep/ I liked Katharine Hepburn in African Queen and Guess Who's Comibg to Dinner I suppose. I liked her boyfriend's (Spencer Tracy) acting much more.
26 posted on 07/04/2024 12:27:59 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: jmacusa

She and her Mother had to eat tulip bulbs to survive.


27 posted on 07/04/2024 2:51:19 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: buwaya

Reese Witherspoon, maybe?


28 posted on 07/04/2024 3:09:53 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (Does anybody proofread anymore?)
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To: PghBaldy

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”.


29 posted on 07/04/2024 3:35:56 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

She actually had a lovely voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uirBWk-qd9A


30 posted on 07/04/2024 3:49:46 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


31 posted on 07/04/2024 3:59:47 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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.


32 posted on 07/04/2024 4:13:01 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: piytar

“ 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


33 posted on 07/04/2024 4:24:40 AM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Army Vet 1986-1991)
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To: LukeL

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.


34 posted on 07/04/2024 4:41:15 AM PDT by Varda
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
I thought she was great in many roles. She is certainly in many movies worth repeat viewings. There have been articles in past talking about her father abandoning his family. One thing she said is that her mother, to her great credit, never spoke disparagingly about him. I always thought that was an amazing thing. I'm not sure I could do that in the same situation.
35 posted on 07/04/2024 4:49:36 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Tea Drinker

Watched that one last night.
Really showed off French culture at that time.


36 posted on 07/04/2024 5:14:42 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: piytar

I never knew she was 5’7”.

She was so gamine I thought she was shorter.

Most attractive actress I’ve ever seen.


37 posted on 07/04/2024 5:25:22 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: montag813

Pit-a-pat goes my ❤️

Those *eyes*!


38 posted on 07/04/2024 5:29:23 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
I never knew she was 5’7”.

Yup. A lot of male actors had to wear lifts or stand on something so they'd look taller.

39 posted on 07/04/2024 5:52:38 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: vivenne

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.


40 posted on 07/04/2024 5:55:29 AM PDT by KC Burke
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