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  Audrey Hepburn - L'Ange des Enfants
Despite her glamour, charm and elegance, Hepburn is one star who has always been seen to have real heart.
Maybe the role that best portray Audrey Hepburn was her last film appearance in the Steven Spielberg romantic fantasy "Always".
This little known Audrey movie directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, and John Ritter, is finally getting a DVD release in the US.
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  Audrey Hepburn.com: Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund
In 1994, the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, a non-profit organization, was created in New York to continue Audrey's international appeals on behalf of ill-treated and suffering children around the world.
Audrey Hepburn Memorial Fund at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, dedicated to educating children in Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
Audrey's innate sense of modesty kept her from ever becoming fully aware of the impact she had - through her work with UNICEF - in raising awareness of the plight of children.
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  Audrey Hepburn - Biography - Moviefone
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.
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 devoted the last years of her life to her UNICEF work, travelling to war-torn places like Somalia to visit starving children.
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  Audrey Hepburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hepburn initially refused the role and asked Jack Warner to give it to Andrews, but when they informed her that it would either be her or Elizabeth Taylor, who was vying for the role, she decided to take the part.
Hepburn had surgery in a Los Angeles hospital, but the cancer continued to spread, and when she went in for surgery, doctors discovered it was too far gone to attempt surgery or chemotherapy.
Hepburn died of colorectal cancer on 20 January 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63, and was interred there.
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 Audrey Hepburn - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After the war, Hepburn and her mother moved to London, England where she studied ballet, worked as a model, and in 1951 began acting in films, mostly in minor or supporting roles as Audrey Hepburn; her first major performance was in the 1951 film The Secret People, in which she played a ballet dancer.
Hepburn was at the center of a controversy in 1964 with the release of My Fair Lady due to the fact that she had been cast for role of Eliza Doolittle instead of then-unknown Julie Andrews who had originated the role.
Hepburn died of colorectal cancer on January 20, 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63, and was interred there.
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 Audrey Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Although she was the daughter of a Dutch baroness and a wealthy English banker, Audrey Hepburn (born Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston in Brussels, Belgium) had a difficult childhood.
During the Nazi occupation, Audrey's uncle and a cousin were executed for supporting the Resistance and her brother was placed in a labor camp.
Audrey Hepburn became a goodwill ambassador and spokesperson for UNICEF in 1986.
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 Audrey Hepburn - MSN Encarta
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993), Belgian-born actor and humanitarian, who became one of Hollywood’s best-known stars with her leading roles in films such as Roman Holiday (1953), Funny Face (1957), and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961).
Hepburn went to private schools in England and the Netherlands, but remained with her mother in the Netherlands throughout World War II (1939-1945).
In 1988 Hepburn became a special ambassador to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and spent the last years of her life working for needy children, especially in Africa and Latin America.
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 Audrey Hepburn Relationships
Audrey Hepburn is impressionable and rather gentle, or at least that is the way she appears.
Audrey Hepburn has a strong sense of duty, is serious and tends to see everything on the dark side.
Audrey Hepburn enjoys a dynamic partner with a strong independent streak, and she does not like things to become too peaceful or predictable in the love arena.
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 Audrey Hepburn - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels she was the daughter of Joseph Anthony Ruston, a British banker, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings (including Edward III).
Hepburn attended private schools in England and the Netherlands, but after the 1935 divorce of her parents she was living with her mother at Arnhem when the German invasion and occupation of World War II occurred.
Hepburn died of colon cancer on January 20, 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of only 63, and was interred there.
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 Reelwriter.net on Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn played many great roles in her life, Hollywood legend being just one.
Her father's side of the family, one of the Hepburn's was in the royal family.
Your mother is Audrey Hepburn and yet for the longest time you didn't realize how big her star really was.
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 Audrey Hepburn @ Filmbug
Hepburn attended private schools in England and the Netherlands, but after the divorce of her parents she was living with her mother in the Netherlands when the German invasion and occupation of World War II occurred.
Hepburn only acted occasionally, her last role filmed in 1988 just before she was appointed as a special ambassador to the United Nations Children's Fund.
Audrey Hepburn died of colon cancer on January 20, 1993, in Tolchenaz, Vaud, Switzerland and was interred there.
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 BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Audrey Hepburn: Why the fuss?
Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston was the daughter of John Victor Hepburn-Ruston and Ella van Heemstra, a baroness.
By the age of 19, Hepburn was a chorus girl on the West End stage, and in 1951 she moved into film, playing roles such as "cigarette girl" and "hotel receptionist".
Audrey Hepburn was what Keira Knightley just might turn into.
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 Audrey Hepburn - Wikiquote
Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 - 20 January 1993) Belgian-born actress; born Audrey Kathleen Ruston, she became Audrey Hepburn-Ruston when her father appended Hepburn to his surname.
Audrey Hepburn, because the original format of the poem was as a letter to his granddaughter in case he was gone before she grew up.
Audrey found the letter and edited lines of it into a poem.
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 Audrey Hepburn Biography
After the war, Hepburn and her mother moved to London, where she studied ballet, worked as a model, and in 1951, began acting in films, mostly in minor or supporting roles as Audrey Hepburn.
Hepburn was at the center of a controversy in 1964 with the filming of My Fair Lady, due to her casting as Eliza Doolittle instead of then-unknown Julie Andrews, who had originated the role on Broadway.
Hepburn's last starring role in a film was with her new flame Ben Gazzara in the modern comedy They All Laughed, a small, hip and breezy picture-- a real departure for Hepburn-- directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
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 Audrey Hepburn.com: The UNICEF Years
Determined to raise awareness and badly needed funds, Audrey applied her first-hand knowledge to inform Special Assemblies at the U.N., shared details with various Press Associations, and lobbied on behalf of children to World Parliaments.
In 1993, Sean H. Ferrer, Luca Dotti (Audrey's sons) and Robert Wolders (her companion) created The Audrey Hepburn Memorial Fund at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to commemorate the humanitarian efforts she made as a UNICEF International Goodwill Ambassador.
Hepburn's last trips with UNICEF were to Africa where the tragedies she witnessed fueled a deeply personal mission to inform the world of the hunger and suffering that result from civil wars, drought, and disease.
www.audreyhepburn.com /html/unicef/index.html   (453 words)

  
 UNICEF - UNICEF People - Audrey Hepburn
In the years that followed, Hepburn made a series of UNICEF field trips, visiting a polio vaccine project in Turkey, training programmes for women in Venezuela, projects for children living and working on the street in Ecuador, projects to provide drinking water in Guatemala and Honduras and radio literacy projects in El Salvador.
Audrey Hepburn was born on 4 May 1929 in Brussels, Belgium.
Audrey Hepburn died at her home in Switzerland on 20 January 1993.
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 swissinfo - Audrey Hepburn lived the last 30 years of her life near Lausanne.
Hepburn was discovered by the 80-year-old French novelist Colette, who cast her in "Gigi", based on her novel about a precocious and carefree young girl growing up in Paris.
Hepburn's performance as Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" resulted in one of the most iconic characters in 20th-century American cinema, but she lost out on an Oscar to Sophia Loren (for "Two Women").
Hepburn's film career peaked in the early Sixties and in 1966 she moved with her family to Tolochenaz, a village near Lausanne on the shores of Lake Geneva.
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 Audrey Hepburn Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) was an engaging screen actress who won an Academy Award in 1954 for her work in Roman Holiday.
While memories of fear, deprivation, and cattlecars full of deportees populated her dreams for the rest of her life, Hepburn utilized her experiences in ministering to the world's starving children, many of whom did not know that the beautiful woman was a movie star.
Hepburn and her mother moved to England to pursue her dance career after the war.
www.bookrags.com /biography/audrey-hepburn   (996 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Audrey Hepburn: Books: Barry Paris
This wartime experience both fed Hepburn's love of the spotlight and inspired a concern for the poor and powerless that compelled her to campaign for UNICEF from 1988 until her death in 1993.
Hepburn's personal and professional relationships with her leading men?William Holden, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Cary Grant?are presented in gossipy detail, as is her often difficult marriage with actor Mel Ferrer.
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) was born in Brussels the daughter of a Dutch woman and an English father.
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 CNN.com - Son: Audrey Hepburn had lifetime sadness - Dec. 2, 2003
Sean Ferrer, the only son of Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, was interviewed at the offices of the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund in a venerable building a mile from the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica.
His own professional life is divided among conducting the work of the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, managing his mother's legacy by policing piracy of her image and checking residual payments from her movies, and pursuing his own career in films.
"Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit" is a large-format book loaded with illustrations and an intimate look at her personal life, from her unhappy childhood to her graceful death.
cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/books/12/02/books.audreyhepburn.ap   (772 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Audrey Hepburn Collection - Special Edition Box Set [1953]: Video: Audrey Hepburn,Robert Flemyng,Blake ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hepburn's urban sophisticate Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the gifts of gentlemen, is a bewitching figure in designer dresses and costume jewellery.
Sabrina Fair: Audrey Hepburn is the delightful, young, eponymous Sabrina, the daughter of a chauffeur who is hopelessly in love with David Larrabee (William Holden), the playboy younger son in the rich Long Island household her father works for.
Audrey Hepburn, screen idol in five classic films, four of which are fantastic.
www.amazon.co.uk /Audrey-Hepburn-Collection-Special-Box/dp/B000053U08   (1377 words)

  
 Books on Katharine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn - Books - Review - New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mann concedes Hepburn a certain genuineness of feeling toward Howard Hughes in the late 1930’s, but keeps us mindful that “relationships between public figures are rarely spontaneous combustions.” The press could be counted on to flock to an aviator who had an actress in the cockpit, and so she flew.
Hepburn reached Hollywood in 1932, via Connecticut and Bryn Mawr, and once she was there, the director George Cukor made her over and the agent Leland Hayward got her big money.
Mann is less interested in Hepburn’s career than in the private arc she traveled alongside it, insisting, reasonably enough, that it is “time to take off the blinders” to the large portions of her emotional existence that were organized around relationships with women.
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 WIC Biography - Audrey Hepburn
She was mourned internationally as the loss of one of the favorite film actresses of all time, an icon to style, elegance, dignity, and charity.
Audrey Hepburn's farewell letter to her sons were from her favorite poem, she wrote "Remember, if ever you need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm.
Audrey Hepburn was a remarkable woman, an extraordinary human being, and a good and kind soul.
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 Audrey Hepburn | The Huffington Post
Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award-winning actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian.
Audrey Hepburn was not a realistic option to play a 14-year-old and Susan Strasberg was disappointed.
Audrey Hepburn sealed her fame playing a spirited, quirky sophisticate in the 1961 film that won two Oscars.
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 Tags - Audrey Hepburn - Instablogs Community
The little Givenchy fl dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's," the movie that brought her worldwide recognition fetched 410,000 pounds ($800,000) on Tuesday, around seven times its pre-sale estimate.
Audrey Hepburn’s iconic little fl dress will be auctioned at Christie’s in London on 5th December this year.
Audrey Hepburn topped the poll, her timeless elegance put her ahead of today’s Hollywood stars like Halle Berry, Scarlett...
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