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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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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