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Audrey Hepburn: War
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After the war, in 1945, when Audrey was 15 years old, the family moved to London, England, where Audrey began to study dance on a ballet scholarship. She was graceful, slender and long-legged and soon began winning modeling assignment from fashion photographers. One iconic photograph taken of her by the British photographer Angus McBeam, helped propel her into the world of stage and screen.
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Funny Face in 1957 was one of Hepburn's favorite movies to film because she got to dance with Fred Astaire. 1959's The Nun's Story was one of her most daring roles. Films in Review stated, "her performance will forever silence those who have thought her less an actress than a symbol of the sophisticated child/woman. Her portrayal of Sister Luke is one of the great performances of the screen."[30].Otto Frank even asked her to play his daughter Anne onscreen counterpart in the 1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank, but Hepburn,who was born the same year as Anne, felt living during the war wasn't good and she felt too old to play a teenager. The role was eventually given to teenage model Millie Perkins.
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During World War II, 16-year-old Audrey was a volunteer nurse in a Dutch hospital. During the battle of Arnhem, her hospital received many wounded Allied soldiers. One of the injured soldiers that 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 his thriller, Wait Until Dark (1967).
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In turn, Hepburn yielded to a calling other than acting, preferring to spend her time with her two sons and working for UNICEF. "If there was a cross between the salt of the earth and a regal queen," Shirley MacLaine told People, "then she was it." An articulate and impassioned spokeswoman, Hepburn was named the goodwill ambassador for the international children's relief organization UNICEF in 1988. Instead of using the title for travel privileges and charity balls, Hepburn worked in the field, nursing sick children and reporting on the suffering she witnessed. Her last plea proved most moving; Hepburn had traveled to Somalia in the fall of 1992, and her sad but hopeful account galvanized the world's response to the dreadful famine and warfare that would eventually kill thousands in that West African country. For all her otherworldly good looks, Hepburn was a down-to-earth, sensible actress in a Hollywood of excess.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: In ‘Breakfast at Tiffany's’ (1961), Audrey plays party girl Holly Golightly, Truman Capote's prevaricating heroine who has forgotten her past to create a more interesting present. Golightly befriends her neighbor, an aspiring writer, while searching for a rich, older man to marry. Quirky and sweet, Breakfast at Tiffany’s warms the heart and provides the ultimate solution for “the mean reds.”
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Hepburn had misgivings about taking a role that many believed belonged to Andrews, but she craved the part. Aware that if she turned down the role, it would go to Elizabeth Taylor, Hepburn signed on, fully expecting to sing the famous songs of Lerner and Loewe herself. But Warner, insisting on covering his bets, hired Marnie Nixon to dub Hepburn's vocals.
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