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Saturday, 6 August 2011

Profile: Audrey Hepburn

As previously stated i became enthralled with Audrey after watching the movie Funny Face, before then i always rolled my eyes at everyone who said how much they admired her or had that annoying pink door poster of her in Breakfast at Tiffany's. I still do.
After watching and loving one movie i researched more and then they started popping up left right and center on the movie channels or in movie stores. They had probably been there all along but I was never looking for it so had therefore never noticed.
Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston on the 4th of May 1929. Hepburn has started in around 28 minor and major film roles. Ranging from her 1948 movie début at the age of 19 where she played a stewardess [Dutch inn Seven Lessons] to her last movie appearance as a cameo in Always 1989 aged 59. She died three years later on the 20th of January 1993 aged 63.
Though her movies were iconic in the 90s it's hard to imagine; If she was born in this generation and kicking it with the likes of Julia Roberts, would she have been as special? Just a thought, either way I enjoyed all the films that i have seen her star, her voice and mannerisms as a character, and just seeing the original inspiration for a lot of spoofs and styles.

A few of the Audrey Hepburn Movies that I have seen.
Sabrina (1954)
Funny Face (1957)
Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)
Charade (1963)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Two For The Road (1967)

Breakfast at Tiffany's is as good as everyone hypes it up to be - if its your kind of genre, though it terms of the book its not alike at all. My favourite would have to by Funny Face, its just got everything you need in a light hearted movie to lift your spirits. Check out my review or go out and buy yourself a copy.