Posted on 07/03/2024 9:17:45 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
A great icon of America’s glorious halcyon days in the 20th century.
Most famous people are miserable in their personal life. Kung Solomon figured out the emptiness of worldly things 3000 years ago.
I know she was a Lefty, but I do like that image.
It is only briefly mentioned in the article, but as a child Hepburn was caught behind German lines in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Food was scarce, and the Nazi occupiers were brutal.
That would scar anyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn#1939%E2%80%931945:_Experiences_during_World_War_II
Did not (for a long time) realize Audrey Hepburn was Dutch.
Total ringer for great aunt from Nederland
She did make the best of her daddy issues it seems. She was a great success in almost all ways in spite of that. A lot of others are fatally compromised that way ab initio.
An interesting take on the making of evil leftist monsters (Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc.) Daddy issues are a major part of the mix. TIK over-eggs his pudding I think, too much use of the Procrustean bed, but the but the message is clear enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6wkHLDVdXs
Some movie stars of that era were like Audrey and Gary Cooper ,known primarily from the roles they played in movies and in theatre, while other stars such as Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor were known most from how they conducted their private lives.
Yep the “Hongerwinter” of 1944.
“...TIK over-eggs his pudding...”
Is that some kind of secret code, or what?
Her father was British-Austrian. Hence Hepburn.
A very common sort of mix in the upper classes.
They have always been international.
She suffered massively with insecurities about her looks...
She was by far one of the most beautiful women who has ever graced the silver screen. Tall for her time (5'7") and absolutely stunning. Baffles me. No modern actress comes close -- and a lot of them are very attractive.
Do recognize the pain in her life -- a lot of outwardly happy people carry and hide a lot of pain.
British idiom. Also used in America, but a bit archaic these days.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/over-egg-the-pudding
“She was by far one of the most beautiful women who has ever graced the silver screen.”
Absolutely so. Nobody else has come close in 50 years.
IMHO she was super in My Fair Lady, even though her “singing” is dubbed.
If you read the original novella by Truman Capote, the movie Holly Golightly is way different...
Lots of homo ideation in the novella, not exactly from Holly...but it’s in the novella. I think you can get the original text and story line from archive.org. The story was altered somewhat for the movie. Especially the ending.
After Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery's disastrous Operation Market-Garden in September, 1944 the Germans were convinced the Dutch underground had a hand in supplying intell to the Allies the Nazi's blockaded food shipments to Holland in what the Dutch called Der Honger Winter'' "The Hunger Winter leaving poor Audrey to nearly arrive at deaths door. It's the reason she had such a thin and frail body. F;ing Montgomery. What an egotistical Brit a$$hole.
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