Posted on 12/20/2019 5:46:55 PM PST by Hojczyk
Review What many don't know, and Robert Matzen's sensitive and deeply moving book reveals, are Hepburn's experiences growing up in the Netherlands during the years of Nazi occupation-experiences that formed her character and left her haunted by memories she could not erase. A master storyteller, Matzen has given us a great story-intimate, intense, and unforgettable-that carries us not only into the heart of battle but into the heart of a great human being.
-- "Foreword Reviews"
Dutch Girl may be one of the best books about Audrey Hepburn ever written. It offers the reader, the historian, the film buff an insight and understanding as to what made Hepburn the star, the actress, the humanitarian-the very woman whom the world to this day warmly remembers with love and admiration. Dutch Girl is a must read.
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She was actually part of the Dutch Resistance. I believe she once said her best performance, was to a group of resistance fighters in a barn somewhere.
A very interesting book...
Is there a book site here?.
I clicked on freeper book club but got nowhere..
She was a delicate flower.
Great Actress!
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Because she often didn’t get enough to eat or the healthy foods her growing body needed she was small and ill during her teen years...
She wasn’t petite by accident...
Her mother was English and they eventually were able to go there...
Yeah, she was something of a ho. Her affair with William Holden was pretty notorious.
Was she Katherine Hepburn’s sister or not?
Unrelated.
Yes, her lack of stamina due to poor nutrition during the war prevented her having a career as a ballerina, which led to her career as a model and then an actress.
Class act, we will never see another like her.
Thanks,
She reminded me
of Hannie,
The Girl with
the Red Hair.
Another Dutch
Freedom Fighter.
Lasy with class.
Sorry for typo.
Agreed. A legend.
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