Things You DIDN'T KNOW About Audrey Hepburn

Since Audrey Hepburn's birthday just passed, we thought it was time to pay our respects to one of Hollywood's most endearing girlfriends. Here we've put together some of the

things

you may not

know

about her about what life was like for her during the Second World. War to how she persevered to become a mother she was a legend a hero and a knockout this is all about Audrey Hepburn the real name Audrey Hepburn was not born with the name we all

know

and love and it was her father who chose the name Hepburn, She was born on May 4, 1929 as Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels, Belgium, in Accel, her mother was a Dutch noblewoman named Baroness Ella van Hien Straw and her father was Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, but she later changed her surname to Hepburn Ruston.

He believed he might be a descendant of Mary, Queen of Scots' third husband, James Hepburn, so he added the name to his own. It was not in 1935. Hepburn Rustin would leave the family and head to London, leaving behind her previous life, but in the 1960s Audrey connected with him again and supported him financially for the rest of the life of her ballet. Did you know that acting was not Hepburn's first vocation, but that she was prepared to be a dancer? She began training ballet in her later years at the Arnhem Conservatory. At boarding school in the early 1940s, her ballet teacher was a woman named Wynjym Arava, and Hepburn quickly became her star student.

Then, in 1940, the Germans invaded the Netherlands and she had to put ballet on the back burner, but after the war she picked up where she was. She stayed in Amsterdam, where she had moved with her family. She trained with Sonya Gasko, a famous Dutch dancer, and Olga Tarasova, a Russian teacher. In 1948 she moved to London on a ballet scholarship with the Rambert Ballet, a famous British dance company, but she soon knew she would. She never succeeded she was too tall, she was five foot seven and she suffered the consequences of malnutrition during the war that made her sick.

She then abandoned the dream of dancing and concentrated on her acting. She survived the war. As we mentioned, the Germans invaded and occupied the Netherlands. In the town of Arnhem, where Hepburn and her family lived during the occupation, townspeople were not allowed to come and go as they pleased and food quickly became scarce. Things got worse when German soldiers killed his uncle in retaliation for an act carried out by the resistance movement even though he was not part of the resistance nor involved in the act, but then Arnhem was heavily damaged during Operation Market Garden. Hepburn and her family had to survive the Dutch famine in the winter of 1944 and 1945 and made flowers from tulip bulbs so they could make cookies. and cakes to survive.

In the end, Hepburn suffered acute anemia edema due to malnutrition and respiratory problems a war connection now Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 and Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 just a month later and Hepburn felt the connection After the war in 1946 she read the Diary of a Young Girl also known as the Diary of Anne Frank and it devastated her. Both girls were the same age, lived only 60 miles from each other, and both had to suffer during the German occupation of Holland. There was even a reference to the day Hepburn's uncle died, which made it even more real.

For her she felt that the diary was a vision of her own life and experiences of hers written by someone else. Later, in 1959, a film would be made based on the diary and Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank, asked Hepburn to play her daughter in the film Audrey. Too traumatized by her past and connection to take the role and said the whole thing destroyed her again, she

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't see her own beauty while many of the rich and famous think highly of themselves in almost every department Luca Dotti The Audrey's son once told Vanity Pher that his mother did not consider herself beautiful.

Now Hepburn is known for many

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and being stunning is one of them, although she

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't think so herself and instead she thought that her flaws worked together to compensate for her overall appearance. Look, Donnie was quoted as saying that she thought she had a big nose and big feet and that she was too skinny and didn't have enough breasts and she could never understand why people found her beautiful, but hey, that's her opinion and it's not changing the opinion. opinion of others. Woman, it's no secret that Audrey Hepburn was a style goddess and that she looked great in almost everything she wore, but she didn't think she was a style icon at all;

In fact, she knew that if people wanted to emulate her looks and style, they could do so. Her style has not gone out of fashion either and today you can see many women sporting Audrey Hepburn's look. She once said that my appearance is accessible to everyone, with my hair in a bun, big sunglasses and a black dress, every woman can look like me. If Audrey were that easy, apparently it takes a lot to look like Audrey Hepburn, since when the little black dress from Breakfast at Tiffany's came up for auction in 2006, it sold for a whopping nine hundred and twenty-three thousand, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars.

Having children was a feat Hepburn met Mel Ferrer, an American actor, at a party hosted by actor Gregory Peck and Hepburn suggested that the two do a play together, they ended up getting together and collaborating on a play called Undine and it was during that time the two fell in love and began a relationship on September 25, 1954, just eight months after they began dating and not long before they co-starred in War and Peace. The two were married in Bergen, Switzerland. They tried to have children, but two attempts. It ended in a miscarriage, one in 1955 and the other in 1959 when she fell from a horse while filming Unforgiven.

She quickly became pregnant again and took time off work to care for the baby she gave birth to to Sean Hepburn Ferrer on December 17. July 1960. She had two more miscarriages after that in 1965 in 1967 and had a second child Luca Dotti with her second husband Aundrea Dotty on February 8, 1970 Reading Men It's no secret that many people think that Hepburn's films They are incredible and for their time they were some of the The most important thing that not many people know is the age difference between her and her co-stars, the main protagonists of the film that began in her second film, Sabrina.

Her co-star, Humphrey Bogart, was 29 years older than Fred Astaire, who starred alongside him. Funny-faced Hepburn was also 29 years older. Cary Grant, the actor who starred with her in the farce, was 25 years older than her. She was just a kid who played with the big boys and absolutely held her own like John F. Kennedy. It's no surprise that at one point Audra Hepburn and John F Kennedy were dating he was a handsome senator just days away from being 12 years older than her and she was a beautiful young movie star sounds like a match made in heaven, Well, the two ended up breaking up, but in fact they remain friends in 1963, just a year after Marilyn Monroe's famous happy birthday song to the then-president.

Hepburn was the next to sing it to JFK, she did it in a much less sensual way and at a private party so no recordings exist. of her serenading her ex when he was murdered, Hepburn was devastated and in fact informed the cast of My Fair Lady the film that she was in the middle of filming Givenchy. You may already know that Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy were lifelong friends after they met and were very close, but did you know that Javan was really disappointed the first time he met her? Audrey Hepburn, it was all a misunderstanding on Javan's part, she is part when she heard the name Hepburn and assumed Katharine Hepburn would be who he would be.

In a meeting with him, he was hired to design Audrey's costumes for Sabrina, which was only his second film, so of course he might be a little disappointed because he was expecting a star, not a soon-to-be up-and-coming nobody. . Jevon even made a special. perfume only for Hepburn teenager from the 50's and it was available to the public a few years later it's called lin tardy which means forbidden in French as we said they became friends for life and she became his muse it's like they were meant to be For the love of pearls they say that diamonds are a girl's best friends, but we don't know who they are, what we do know is that diamonds were not Audrey Hepburn's best friends, but that she preferred pearls to diamonds and Her first husband, Mel Ferrer, gave her her favorite pearl. everyone's necklace, even though diamonds weren't her favorite, she was able to wear the Tiffany diamond in a necklace for the promotional photos for Breakfast at Tiffany's and at the time she was only the second person to have worn it, some pretty flowers are now flowers. something she cared about and something good because she has some named after her.

You know you've really made it when people start naming things like flowers after you. There are a variety of roses, a variety of tulips and a variety of lilies. It is named after her but we only have one photo of the rose, it makes sense that she liked flowers as she loved gardening and when she grew up she even hosted a PBS show called Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn. UNICEF Audrey Hepburn liked it. the organization known as UNICEF, which is now known as the United Nations Children's Fund, but which once represented the United Nations' emergency fund for children, had helped his family after World War II with medical aid and food and she grew very fond of them throughout the years.

In 1988 she took on the role of ambassador for the organization and had donated to them since 1954. Hepburn even went so far as to donate the profits from her last three projects to the organization and in 1992 for her work as an ambassador We received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George HW Bush. I'm sure we've already seen a lot of good things about Audrey Hepburn and we still have one more little section left, but first we'd like to ask you what your favorite movie that she made is and why. Put your answers in the comments below. I got talking about awards.

Hepburn is one of the elite few who managed to become legitimate winners. I got winners. They have to win four major awards in particular to get an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. she did all four Audrey Hepburn was a spectacular person with incredible talent as well as a beauty that will live forever if you enjoyed this video do us a big favor and like subscribe to our channel so you never miss it Check out any of our informative uploads and be sure to check out the video below that we curated just for you.