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Audrey Hepburn & the Family Skeletons

Posted in Adolf Hitler, Audrey Hepburn, Joseph Goebbels, PEOPLE, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 13, 2014| 15 Comments »

Readers, at the beginning of this year, I had entertained the idea of writing a juvenile biography of Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) and the five years she spent in Nazi-occupied Holland as an underground resistance worker. Having read many biographies on Audrey, I was familiar with the yarns about her being a courier for the Dutch Resistance movement against […]

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Audrey Hepburn: Ice Cream Cone at Tiffany’s

Posted in Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, PEOPLE, tagged , , , , , , , on May 4, 2014| 1 Comment »

Actress Audrey Hepburn hated Danish pastries. However, as Holly Golightly in the 1962 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Audrey was required to nibble one outside the New York jewelry store Tiffany’s. She asked director Blake Edwards if she could lick an ice cream cone instead, but he said no. Author Truman Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play […]

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Audrey Hepburn, Dirty Guttersnipe

Posted in Audrey Hepburn, Cecil Beaton, PEOPLE, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 11, 2014| 1 Comment »

In the 1964 Academy Award winning musical, “My Fair Lady,” linguistics professor Henry Higgins places a bet with his colleague Colonel Pickering. He boasts that, in six months time, he can transform a low-bred, disheveled Cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle into a duchess by teaching her to speak properly. Eliza is agreeable; she wants to speak better so […]

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Audrey Hepburn: The New Sexy?

Posted in Audrey Hepburn, Cecil Beaton, PEOPLE, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 10, 2014| 1 Comment »

In 1954, British photographer and creative artist, Cecil Beaton, wrote this article for “Vogue” about a rising film star named Audrey Hepburn. Miss Hepburn was 25 and the newest sensation. She had just won the Academy Award for Best Actress for “Roman Holiday.” It is always a dramatic moment when the Phoenix rises anew from […]

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Audrey Hepburn: Growing Up Among the Nazis

Posted in Audrey Hepburn, Margot Fonteyn, Ninette de Valois, PEOPLE, Sadler's Wells Ballet, World War II, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 11, 2014| 27 Comments »

It was May 9, 1940, and Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (Ruston) had just turned eleven years old. She was living in Holland with her mother, her two older brothers, and other relatives. Her father lived in London. Her parents were divorced. To celebrate Audrey’s birthday, her mother, Dutch Baroness Ella van Heemstra Ruston, had bought tickets for her and Audrey to see […]

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Audrey Hepburn: Disney’s Sleeping Beauty

Posted in Audrey Hepburn, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 14, 2009| 6 Comments »

The iconic castle from “Sleeping Beauty,” by artist Eyvind Earle for Disney Up until the release of Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty” in 1959, the Disney characters were normally drawn first for a film and then the background was drawn later to complement the characters. But this process was reversed in 1951 – causing some hard feelings […]

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And Everywhere that Audrey Went, the Deer Was Sure to Go!

Posted in Audrey Hepburn, PEOPLE, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 29, 2009| 3 Comments »

This is an excerpt from,”Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn is still full of surprises“: [The book] Remembering Audrey, features candid portraits by Bob Willoughby, a photographer on the set of many of Hepburn’s films who became close enough to the beauty to literally follow her home. His visual account of Hepburn’s private life and career is peppered with […]

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Edith Head: The Dress Doctor is In

Posted in ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, FASHION, & DESIGN, Audrey Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Paul Newman, PEOPLE, Robert Redford, STAGE & SCREEN, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 11, 2014| 6 Comments »

It was summer vacation of 1924 and Edith Head, 27, wanted a new job. She was tired of making peanuts – $1500 a year – teaching French and art at the Hollywood School for Girls. She did have a husband but he was a heavy drinker. If Edith wanted to improve her quality of life, it was up to her […]

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My Fair Lady: That Ascot Dress

Posted in Audrey Hepburn, Cecil Beaton, PEOPLE, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 11, 2014| 2 Comments »

On June 19, 2011,the Ascot dress and hat worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 Academy Award-winning film, “My Fair Lady,” sold at auction for an incredible $3.7 million. The ensemble was designed by Cecil Beaton and was sold from the Debbie Reynolds Collection. Originally, the actress Debbie Reynolds paid $100,000 for the outfit. Worn by Miss Hepburn in […]

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Carnation Day 1940

Posted in Adolf Hitler, Audrey Hepburn, Crown Princess Juliana, Dutch Royal Family, King George VI, PEOPLE, POLITICS & GOV'T, Prince Bernhard, Princess Beatrix, Princess Irene, Queen Wilhelmina, ROYALTY/NOBILITY, World War II, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 1, 2014| 2 Comments »

When the Germans invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, Ninette de Valois found herself trapped in The Hague. She was the director of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet Company from England. She and her 42 dancers had been on a Dutch tour. On the day of the invasion, de Valois had been sitting at a sidewalk café with two members […]

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Al Hirschfeld: Looking for Nina

Posted in Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 23, 2009| 7 Comments »

Albert “Al” Hirschfeld ( 1903 – 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his simple black and white satirical portraits of celebrities. He had the unique ability to capture a person’s likeness with few and simple lines. His eight-decade career included drawing the entire casts of Broadway plays to include alongside reviews in The […]

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I Love Lucy: Lucy Meets Bill Holden, Part 1

Posted in PEOPLE, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 13, 2009| 5 Comments »

Everybody has a favorite “I Love Lucy” episode and this is mine: “L.A. at Last!”* Lucy’s husband Ricky Ricardo is filming a picture out in L.A. and has taken Lucy and the Mertzes out to California with him. This scene opens with Lucy, Fred, and Ethel out star hunting. They are having lunch at the Brown Derby, a popular haunt […]

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