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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

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Legendary yet poignant legacy. It’s no wonder she embodied Holly Golightly so well in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
1 posted on 07/03/2024 9:17:45 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

A great icon of America’s glorious halcyon days in the 20th century.


2 posted on 07/03/2024 9:20:26 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Most famous people are miserable in their personal life. Kung Solomon figured out the emptiness of worldly things 3000 years ago.


3 posted on 07/03/2024 9:20:58 PM PDT by LukeL
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My favorite picture of he is the one she is squatting in front of an oven. I can't post it, I suspect it is due to some AI Image suppression software.

I know she was a Lefty, but I do like that image.

4 posted on 07/03/2024 9:30:47 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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


5 posted on 07/03/2024 9:36:17 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Did not (for a long time) realize Audrey Hepburn was Dutch.
Total ringer for great aunt from Nederland


6 posted on 07/03/2024 9:38:13 PM PDT by A strike (no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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


7 posted on 07/03/2024 9:46:47 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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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.


8 posted on 07/03/2024 9:47:12 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Leaning Right

Yep the “Hongerwinter” of 1944.


9 posted on 07/03/2024 9:47:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“...TIK over-eggs his pudding...”
Is that some kind of secret code, or what?


10 posted on 07/03/2024 9:49:25 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: A strike

Her father was British-Austrian. Hence Hepburn.

A very common sort of mix in the upper classes.
They have always been international.


11 posted on 07/03/2024 9:51:03 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
This caught my attention:

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.

12 posted on 07/03/2024 9:54:54 PM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: Repeal The 17th

British idiom. Also used in America, but a bit archaic these days.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/over-egg-the-pudding


13 posted on 07/03/2024 9:56:08 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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“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.


14 posted on 07/03/2024 9:59:02 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

IMHO she was super in My Fair Lady, even though her “singing” is dubbed.


15 posted on 07/03/2024 10:07:07 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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16 posted on 07/03/2024 10:10:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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.


17 posted on 07/03/2024 10:29:55 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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Audrey Kathleen Ruston, aka Audrey Hepburn very nearly starved to death as a child during WW2.

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.

18 posted on 07/03/2024 10:30:27 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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I like this pic, at home eating dinner


19 posted on 07/03/2024 10:45:03 PM PDT by montag813
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To: All

20 posted on 07/03/2024 10:56:29 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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