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.
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
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.
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.
America was on a 42-month long diet:
https://www.quora.com/What-were-some-of-the-items-rationed-in-the-U-S-during-World-War-2
One of my favorite movies is “Charade” with Audrey and Cary Grant. She wore the most beautiful clothes in the movie.
So, she had real issues ... sorta like the rest of us. There is sympathy to be given in this regard as too many suffer silently.
First time I ever saw Hepburn on screen was when I was in 7th grade junior high school. The principal announced they would be showing weekly films in the auditorium, after school at 3pm.
I saw her in “Wait Until Dark” with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Also Richard Crenna and Alan Arkin were the bad guys. She played a blind girl terrorized by three hoodlums looking for a doll filled with heroin. As a kid, the movie scared the hell out of me even though it was not a horror film.
Being beautiful does not save you from sadness. She was one of the greatest and most gorgeous actresses ever. HollyWierd was a meatgrinder for women who worked the casting couch and abortions to get on screen.
she aided in the Dutch underground during WW2
One of the most beautiful women ever.
I doubt it comes to a great shock to anyone here
But I ADORED her
A woman my rib and I agree on enthusiastically