Audrey Hepburn Filmography
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Roman
Holiday (1953)
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey
Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Tullio Carminati, Hartley Power
Director: William Wyler
A modern-day princess 'escapes' from her royal
entourage while on a trip to Rome, and while incognito, falls in love
with an American newspaperman. Oscar-winning story from then-blacklisted
Dalton Trumbo was credited to Ian McLellan Hunter. Academy Award
Nominations: 10, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay.
Academy Awards: 3, including Best Actress-Audrey Hepburn, Best Motion
Picture story.
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Sabrina
(1954)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Audrey Hepburn,
Humphrey Bogart, John Williams,
Walter Hampden, William Holden
Director: Billy Wilder
Release Date: October, 1954
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Funny
Face (1957)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Starring: Audrey Hepburn,
Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng
Director: Stanley Donen
Release Date: February 13, 1957
S'Wonderful, S'Marvelous!Paris, the City of
Light, shines even brighter when Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire team
for this one time and bring their luminous starpower to this exquisite
musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin. This dazzling
romp-filmed on location in Paris-garnered four Academy Award.
nominations. In the role of a bookstore clerk transformed into a
modeling sensation, Hepburn showcases singing and dancing skills she had
honed on the London stage, performing 'How Long Has This Been Going
On?', a 'Basal Metabolism' dance in a cool-cat bistro and more. Astaire,
as the fashion photographer who discovers her, conjures up his
inimitable magic for sequences that include his 'Let's Kiss And Make Up'
matador diversion, a heavenly dance with Hepburn to 'He Loves And She
Loves' and, again with Hepburn, the title-tune enchantment, 'I Love Your
Funny Face.' Now and forever, so do we.
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Love
in the Afternoon (1957)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Starring: Audrey Hepburn,
Gary Cooper, John McGiver, Maurice Chevalier, Van Doude
Director: Billy Wilder
Release Date: June 30, 1957
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Breakfast
at Tiffany's (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Audrey Hepburn,
George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Martin Balsam, Buddy Ebsen
Director: Blake Edwards
The names Audrey Hepburn and Holly Golightly have
become synonymous since this dazzling romantic comedy was translated to
the screen from Truman Capote's best-selling novella. Holly is a
deliciously eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a
Brazilian Millionaire. George Peppard plays her next-door neighbor, a
writer who is 'sponsored' by a wealthy Patricia Neal. Guessing who's the
right man for Holly is easy. Seeing just how that romance blossoms is
one of the enduring delights of this gem-like treat set to Henry
Mancini's Oscar�-winning score and the Oscar�-winning Mancini-Johnny
Mercer song 'Moon River.'
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Charade
(1963)
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Audrey Hepburn,
James
Coburn, Cary Grant, George Kennedy, Walter Matthau
Director: Stanley Donen
Release Date: December 5, 1963
Lovely Reggie (Audrey Hepburn) is determined to
divorce her wealthy, cold, and closed-mouthed husband, but someone
throws him from a train before she gets the chance. Left penniless in
Paris with police suspicion resting heavily upon her, Reggie soon
realizes she's in serious trouble--her husband stole money from three
unscrupulous men, and they want the money back. Charming and amusing
Cary Grant, recalling his screwball comedy days while still remaining
manly, comes to Reggie's aid. But he too has secrets and hidden
loyalties. With the bodies piling up and the money nowhere to be found,
Grant and Hepburn dash through Paris toward the startling solution.
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My
Fair Lady (1964)
Genre: Musical/Performing Arts
Starring: Audrey Hepburn,
Jeremy Brett, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Director: George Cukor
Release Date: October 21, 1964
A priceless classic, MY FAIR LADY has become one
of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw뭩
1913 play PYGMALION, the film swept the Academy Awards. Cecil Beaton뭩
lavish sets and costumes and Lerner and Loewe뭩 winning score became the
background for George Cukor뭩 striking mix of styles that ranged from the
fantastic to the abstract in his telling of the tale of a waif who뭩
educated into being a lady. Egotistical linguist Professor Henry Higgins
(Oscar-winning Rex Harrison) bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering
(Wilfrid Hyde-White), that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza
Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in time for an important society ball. His
gamble could pay off--but the spirited Eliza is more of a handful than
the Professor could have predicted. As she slowly becomes more refined,
and less reliant upon him, Higgins realizes, to his confusion, that he
can뭪 live without her. The film was nominated for 12 Oscars and won
eight, including Best Picture and Director.
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Paris
When It Sizzles (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Audrey Hepburn,
Christian Duvaleix, Gregoire Aslan, Raymond Bussieres, William
Holden
Director: Richard Quine
Release Date: April 8, 1964
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How
to Steal a Million (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Starring: Audrey Hepburn,
Eli Wallach,
Charles Boyer, Hugh Griffith, Peter O'Toole
Director: William Wyler
Release Date: July 13, 1966
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Two
for the Road (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Starring: Albert Finney, Audrey
Hepburn, Eleanor Bron, Jacqueline
Bisset, William Daniels
Director: Stanley Donen
Release Date: April 27, 1967
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Robin
and Marian (1976)
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance
Starring: Sean Connery,
Audrey
Hepburn, Ronnie Barker, Robert Shaw, Richard
Harris
Director: Richard Lester
Release Date: April, 1976
Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn star as the
legendary lovers Robin Hood and Maid Marion, who reunite twenty years
after their first meeting. Now the mother superior of a nunnery, Marion
finds herself drawn to a somewhat less agile Robin Hood when he returns
from a lengthy Crusade in the Holy Lands.
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Always
(1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Starring: Richard
Dreyfuss,
Holly Hunter, John Goodman,
Audrey
Hepburn,
Brad Johnson
Director: Steven Spielberg
This remake of the 1943 film A GUY NAMED JOE
stars Richard Dreyfuss as Pete Sandich, a daredevil pilot who
specializes in putting out forest fires. Pete promises his girlfriend,
Dorinda (Holly Hunter), that he will stop flying, but when his best
friend, Al (John Goodman), gets into engine trouble while fighting a
blaze, Pete attempts a daring rescue--saving his friend but killing
himself. Waking up in the afterlife, Pete meets an angel, Hap (Audrey
Hepburn), who sends him back to earth as a ghost no one can see or hear.
When Dorinda flies into a fire to save trapped smoke jumpers, Pete
telepathically talks her through the dangerous mission. Hap tells Pete
he must help Dorinda overcome her grief and lead her to a new love with a
novice pilot (Brad Johnson). While Pete watches the two start their
romance, he battles feelings of jealousy and sadness at giving her up.
Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss, while working together on JAWS in
1975, found that they shared an affinity for the 1943 film A GUY NAMED
JOE. They managed to come together years later to make their own version
of it in ALWAYS.
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Biography
Magical screen presence, fashion arbiter, shrine to good taste, and
tireless crusader for children's rights, Audrey Hepburn has become one
of the most enduring screen icons of the twentieth century. Best-known
for her film roles in Breakfast
at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady,
Roman
Holiday and Charade,
Hepburn epitomized a waif-like glamour, combining charm, effervescence,
and grace. When she died of colon cancer in 1993, the actress was the
subject of endless tributes which mourned the passing of one who left an
indelible imprint on the world, both on and off screen.
Born into relative prosperity and influence on May 4, 1929, Hepburn
was the daughter of a Dutch baroness and a wealthy British banker.
Although she was born in Brussels, Belgium, her early years were spent
traveling between England, Belgium, and the Netherlands because of her
father's job. At the age of five, Hepburn was sent to England for
boarding school; a year later, her father abandoned the family,
something that would have a profound effect on the actress for the rest
of her life. More upheaval followed in 1939, when her mother moved her
and two sons from a previous marriage to the neutral Netherlands: the
following year the country was invaded by the Nazis and Hepburn and her
family were forced to endure the resulting hardships. During the German
occupation, Hepburn suffered from malnutrition (which would permanently
affect her weight), witnessed various acts of Nazi brutality, and at
one point was forced into hiding with her family. One thing that helped
her through the war years was her love of dance: trained in ballet since
the age of five, Hepburn continued to study, often giving classes out
of her mother's home.
It was her love of dance that ultimately led Hepburn to her film
career. After the war, her family relocated to Amsterdam, where the
actress continued to train as a ballerina and modeled for extra money.
Hepburn's work led to a 1948 screen test and a subsequent small role in
the 1948 Dutch film Nederlands in Zeven Lessen (Dutch in Seven Lessons).
The same year, she and her mother moved to London, where Hepburn had
been given a dance school scholarship. Continuing to model on the side,
she decided that because of her height and lack of training, her future
was not in dance. She tried out for and won a part in the chorus line of
the stage show High Button Shoes and was soon working regularly on the
stage. An offer from the British Pictures Corporation led to a few
small roles, including one in 1951's The
Lavender Hill Mob. A major supporting role in the 1952 film The Secret
People led to Monte
Carlo, Baby (1953), and it was during the filming of that movie that
fate struck for the young actress in the form of a chance encounter
with Colette.
The famed novelist and screenwriter decided that Hepburn would be
perfect for the title role in Gigi, and Hepburn was soon off to New York
to star in the Broadway show.
It was at this time that the actress won her first major screen role
in William
Wyler's 1953 Roman Holiday.
After much rehearsal and patience from Wyler (from whom, Hepburn
remarked, she "learned everything"), Hepburn garnered acclaim for her
portrayal of an incognito European princess, winning an Academy Award
as Best Actress and spawning what became known as the Audrey Hepburn
"look." More success came the following year with Billy
Wilder's Sabrina.
Hepburn won a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in the
title role, and continued to be a fashion inspiration, thanks to the
first of many collaborations with the designer Givenchy, who designed
the actress' gowns for the film.
Hepburn also began another collaboration that year, this time with
actor/writer/producer Mel Ferrer.
After starring with him in the Broadway production of Ondine (and
winning a Tony in the process), Hepburn married Ferrer, and their
sometimes tumultuous partnership would last for the better part of the
next fifteen years. She went on to star in a series of successful films
during the remainder of the decade, including War and Peace
(1956), 1957's Funny Face,
and The
Nun's Story (1959), for which she won another Oscar nomination.
Following lukewarm reception for Green
Mansions (1959) and The
Unforgiven (1960), Hepburn won another Oscar nomination and a
certain dose of icon status for her role as enigmatic party girl Holly
Golightly in Breakfast
at Tiffany's (1961). The role, and its accompanying air of
cosmopolitan chic, would be associated with Hepburn for the rest of her
life, and indeed beyond. However, the actress next took on an entirely
different role with William
Wyler's The
Children's Hour (1961), a melodrama in which she played a girls'
school manager suspected of having an "unnatural relationship" with her
best friend (Shirley
MacLaine).
In 1963, Hepburn returned to the realm of enthusiastic celluloid
heterosexuality with Charade. The
film was a huge success, thanks in part to a flawlessly photogenic
pairing with Cary Grant
(who had previously turned down the opportunity to work with Hepburn
because of their age difference). The actress then went on to make My Fair Lady
in 1964, starring opposite Rex
Harrison as a cockney flower girl. The film provided another success
for Hepburn, winning a score of Oscars and a place in motion picture
history. After another Wyler collaboration, 1965's How to
Steal a Million, as well as Two for the
Road (1967) and the highly acclaimed Wait Until
Dark (1967)--for which she won her fifth Oscar nomination playing a
blind woman--Hepburn went into semi-retirement to raise her two young
sons. Her marriage to Ferrer had ended, and she had married again, this
time to Italian doctor Andrea Dotti. She came out of retirement briefly
in 1975 to star opposite Sean
Connery in Robin and
Marian, but her subsequent roles were intermittent and in films of
varying quality. Aside from appearances in 1979's Bloodline
and Peter
Bogdanovich's 1980 They All
Laughed, Hepburn stayed away from film, choosing instead to
concentrate on her work with starving children. After divorcing Dotti in
the early 1980s, she took up with Robert Wolders; the two spent much of
their time travelling the world as part of Hepburn's goodwill work. In
1987, the actress was officially appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador;
the same year she made her final television appearance in Love
Among Thieves, which netted poor reviews. Two years later, she had
her final film appearance as an angel in Steven
Spielberg's Always.
Hepburn devoted the last years of her life to her UNICEF work,
travelling to war-torn places like Somalia to visit starving children.
In 1992, already suffering from colon cancer, she was awarded the Screen
Actors' Guild Achievement Award. She died the next year, succumbing to
her illness on January 20 at her home in Switzerland. The same year, she
was posthumously awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All
Movie Guide
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