| Tribute to Audrey Hepburn |
[Jan. 8th, 2008|03:57 am] |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) shellic, we watched Roman Holiday at my granddad's house on New Year, and it was so lovely! Absolutely lovely, and cute, and wonderful. Even the ending, it wasn't as bittersweet as I thought it would be. The whole experience was just such a wonderful one for both of them, they could have those lovely memories of a perfect day in Rome and a small summer romance. It was just...perfect. I loved it, I really really loved it.
Audrey Hepburn was such an incredible, beautiful, and kind-hearted woman. One of those few famous that you would actually love to know in person.
Quotes from imdb:
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
[about her "comeback" in 1976] Whatever happens, the most important thing is growing old gracefully. And you can't do that on the cover of a fan magazine.
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
And some wonderful tidbits from imdb:
After Wait Until Dark (1967) was offered the leads in 40 Carats (1973), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and The Turning Point (1977) but decided to stay in retirement and raise her sons.
Everyone remembers when Marilyn Monroe serenaded President John F. Kennedy on his birthday in 1962. What is often forgotten is that Audrey Hepburn sang "Happy Birthday Mr. President" to JFK for his final birthday in 1963.
Had a breed of tulip named after her in 1990.
Turned down a role in the film The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) because, as a young girl in Holland during the war, she had witnessed Nazi soldiers publicly executing people in the streets and herding Jews onto railroad cars to be sent to the death camps. She said that participating in the film would bring back too many painful memories for her.
Like Humphrey Bogart, Hepburn also starred in five of the movies listed by American Film Institute in its Top 100 U.S. love stories (2002). They are Roman Holiday (1953), ranked #4 on the list, Sabrina (1954) ranked #54, which co-starred Bogart, My Fair Lady (1964) ranked #12, Two for the Road (1967) at #57 and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) #61.
During World War II, 16-year-old Audrey was a volunteer nurse in a Dutch hospital. During the battle of Arnhem, Hepburn's hospital received many wounded Allied soldiers. One of the injured soldiers young Audrey helped nurse back to health was a young British paratrooper - and future director - named Terence Young. More than 20 years later, Young directed Hepburn in Wait Until Dark (1967).
In Arnhem, Holland, during the Second World War, she worked with the Dutch Underground, giving ballet performances to collect donations for the anti-Nazi effort.
Presented the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards four times (in 1955, 1960, 1966, and 1975) more than any other actress.
Told People Magazine that she was very self-conscious about her size-10 feet.
In 1996 the British magazine Harpers & Queen conducted a poll to find the most fascinating women of our time. She was in the #1 spot.
As of 2005, she is one of only nine performers to win an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy Award.
She was of Belgian, Dutch, English and Irish descent.
Was voted "most beautiful woman of all time" by the readers of "New Woman" magazine (2006).
Godmother of Victoria Brynner, the daughter of Doris Kleiner and Yul Brynner.
Saved the life of her friend Capucine (who attempted suicide on several occasions).
Was fluent in English, Spanish, French, Dutch/Flemish and Italian.
Audrey is such a breath of fresh air compared to most other beauty princesses we know...
I know, I know, it's terribly mean to harp on this poor girl, but it's so horrible it's fascinating. I have to keep watching to remind myself that I didn't just make it up.
When all this came out and we were talking about it Studio, Jessica tried to defend her, saying "Now I saw her on a talk show afterwards, and she really isn't that bad, guys. I mean, she did answer the question this time."
Now really, is geography the only problem here? I think this answer makes me even more worried...
And, just for kicks, Paris on David Letterman:
She's sooo uncomfortable, it makes me gleeful with evil happiness!
Watch that leg, she starts kicking it harder and harder the angrier she gets.
*bwahahaaaa*
And just look at that weak excuse for a handshake at the end. That's embarrassing, just embarrassing. Haaaa, this was funny. |
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