Oh yeah!
Posted on 04/03/2019 1:11:41 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The world fell in love with her doe-eyed beauty and stylish perfection in such films as Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Sabrina, but Audrey Hepburn‘s real-life story was always far more complicated.
“When my mother told us about her life, she never talked about Hollywood or her films,” says her younger son Luca Dotti, 49. “She would tell us stories about the war. And she spoke about good and evil.”
Even as a young boy he says, “I knew from her eyes, her expressions, and her shaky hands that there was more to the story.”
26 years after her death, a new book, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, by historian and biographer Robert Matzen, excerpted in this week’s PEOPLE, tells the harrowing tale that Hepburn long kept hidden.
How she barely survived Germany’s five year occupation of Holland, and how she risked her life secretly working for the Dutch Resistance to help fight the Nazis.
According to Matzen, Hepburn was a young girl of 14 when she was asked to help the Resistance.
“Audrey once said that one of her jobs was ‘running around with food for the pilots,” he notes, referring to the American and British fliers shot down over Holland. “As a fluent English speaker, she could communicate with the pilots, tell them where to go and who would help them,” he says.
On one occasion, when she saw the German police approaching, Matzen describes how she kept her wits about her and began picking wildflowers as a diversion tactic.
“When the Germans…reached her,” he writes, “she remained silent and sweetly presented her flowers to them. After a check of her identity card, she was allowed to pass.”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Throw Ingrid Bergman in there for a Trifecta. :)
It’s wonderful to see that someone I really appreciated deserved it.
I read about at least a couple of these AH stories some 40 years ago.
If the crossword puzzles I’ve been doing are right, it’s Hedy every time. Duckduckgo search agrees.
https://www.biography.com/people/hedy-lamarr-9542252
thanks for posting this!!...never knew
Oh yeah!
Gotta have a picture of the hound, too. Proud owner of an eight-year-old female that goes by “Maddy.”
I have a ton of pictures, but for some reason FB no longer lets me link and I haven’t uploaded to another source. :(
A time when her acting ability must've come in handy!
I love this old style of portraiture. I’ve recently acquired a medium format film camera to capture this style. I think I can develop a market for it.
...and she’s beautiful, smart and tough. A real class act. Sadly the current crop of ‘stars’ are shallow and dimwitted.
flr
Lots of people did their all to fight the Nazis. Many are and will be unknown forever. Many lost their lives in out of the way places in the Nazi empire. Still, what she did was heroic and should be honored.
Dericate Frower..
Bergman was great in The Sand Pebbles.
A very dangerous time in history.
My very favorite unassuming one in real life was Julia Child OS operative.
LOL, I LOVE it when that GIF appears in threads!
Love that movie!
Bacall makes it a quadruple or as my son called it a four-pule.
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