Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 - January 20, 1993), born in Brussels, Belgium, was an English film and stage actress.
Hepburn began her film career in 1948 when she appeared in a 39-minute documentary on Dutch landscapes called "Seven Lessons from Holland," and in 1953 she made her first leading role in the film "Roman Holiday," which won her an Academy Award for Best Actress.
The same year, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in the stage production of The Mermaid, and in 1961 she starred in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, and in 1964 she starred in the song and dance film My Fair Lady, and in 1989 Audrey made her final film appearance in a cameo appearance in Forever and Ever.
In her later years, Audrey Hepburn devoted herself to philanthropy and was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, fighting for the rights of women and children in the Third World.
Audrey Hepburn was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and the Humanitarian Oscar in 1993, and died of cancer on January 20, 1993, at the age of 63 in Switzerland.
In 1999, she was named the 3rd greatest actress of the century by the American Film Institute, and in May 2002, UNICEF unveiled a 7-foot-tall bronze statue of Hepburn at its headquarters in New York City, named The Spirit of Audrey, in recognition of Hepburn's work for the United Nations. in recognition of Hepburn's contributions to the United Nations.
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Major Works
1. Roman Holiday, a 1953 romantic drama made by Paramount, starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn.
Plot
Princess Anne as the heir to the throne will visit the major cities of Europe. The news caused a great sensation when it was released. The last stop of Princess Anne's trip to Europe is Rome. Princess Anne would like to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Rome, but the attendants refused on the grounds that the princess's status is so noble that it is inappropriate for her to show her face in front of the people, and gave her a sedative.
The princess pretended to be asleep before the drug took effect, and when the attendants left, she sneaked out through the window. However, she didn't hang around for long before the sedative took effect, causing the princess to fall asleep in a daze on a bench by a fountain near the square.
Meanwhile, Joe Bradley, a poor reporter for U.S. News, happened to be passing by; Joe had just returned from a poker game with a friend, and, thinking it was a teenage girl who'd gotten drunk at a rave, rented a cab to try to take her home.
But the princess was a particularly heavy sleeper and couldn't be woken up, so Joe had no choice but to take her back to his own place and, upset that she was sleeping in his own bed, put Princess Anne on the sofa.
The next day, a special announcement in the newspaper makes Joe realize that the young girl he has brought home is Princess Anne, so he is ecstatic and intends to write an exclusive story about the Princess's inner workings. The princess wakes up to find a strange Joe, who rushes to explain, and the princess is put at ease. She borrows some money from Joe, then bids him farewell and goes back to wandering the streets of Rome.
Joe rushed to call his photographer friend Owen to get him ready. Meanwhile, he himself followed the princess and, after pretending to have a chance encounter with her in the Piazza di Spagna, volunteered to be her tour guide and show her around the city of Rome on his motorcycle.
Meanwhile, Owen followed them in a small car, taking many precious shots. However, the princess was unaware of all this. The disappearance of the princess caused panic among the officials and attendants, and the king secretly sent out many plainclothes men to look around for the princess.
The plainclothes men found Joe when he led the princess to the water ballroom for a dance. They asked the princess to go back with them, but she refused, and the plainclothes men tried to kidnap her by force, so Joe and Owen fought with them, and the naughty and mischievous princess had a great time fighting. In the confusion, Joe escapes with the princess, while the plainclothes men are arrested by the local police.
A day passes, and the princess finally returns to the palace, but then she and Joe realize that they have fallen in love with each other. After all, a princess is a princess, and a commoner is a commoner, so the two of them can only say goodbye.
Joe's friend Owen shakes hands with the Princess and decides to throw away his chance for fame and fortune by giving the Princess a photo. Finally, in the affectionate four-eyed look, the princess gently said goodbye to Joe ......
2, "My Fair Lady" Warner Bros. Pictures in 1964 produced a song and dance movie, directed by George Cukor, Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Jeremy Brett and other starring roles.
The plot
Eliza Doolittle, a flower seller, is pretty and smart, but comes from a humble background and a poor family. She sells flowers on the street every day to make some money to support herself and subsidize her father.
One day, Eliza's vulgar accent catches the attention of Professor Higgins, a linguist, who boasts that with his training, a flower girl can become a noblewoman. Feeling that what the professor says is an opportunity for her, Eliza offers to come to his door and ask him to train her and pay for her tuition.
After being taunted, the professor's friend Pickering makes a bet with him that Pickering is willing to pay for all the costs of the experiment and Elisa's tuition if he allows Elisa to attend the Ambassadors' Parade, which will be held two months later, as a noblewoman without anyone recognizing the truth, which galvanizes the professor, and Higgins gladly accepts the challenge.
He is relentless, and he teaches from the most basic letter sounds. Higgins was an energetic and scientific scholar, scraping the bottom of the barrel on everything that interested him. He was open-minded and harbored no ill will whatsoever, but like a child, he had no regard for the feelings of others and trained Eliza severely.
On one occasion, when Higgins took Eliza to his mother's house party, the young gentleman Freddie was so impressed by Eliza's beauty and ease of speech that he fell in love with her at first sight, and could not recognize her as the dirty flower girl who had once hawked her wares to him in the rain.
Higgins, who is in his 40s and still unmarried, has never seen a young girl, but he can't live without Eliza. He relies on Eliza to take care of his clothes, food and appointments.
What exasperated Eliza, however, was Higgins' simple, rough temper. He taught her gentle phrases, but never treated her with gentleness.
Six months later, Higgins confidently took Eliza and Pickering together to a reception hosted by the Greek ambassador. Elisha, who was attending the ambassador's reception as a distant relative of Colonel Pickering and Professor Higgins, gave it her all, laughing, talking, smiling, poised and radiant.
When she appeared and was favored by the Queen and the Prince, people stopped talking and admired her ravishing manners. Her treatment of people rounded and sophisticated, but just right, Higgins's first student Nepomuk in order to hear her origins used all their skills and Elisa around, but Elisa was confused and failed to return, Higgins succeeded. Eliza was radiant at the reception!
But upon returning home, as Higgins ignores the presence of the exhausted Eliza and instead focuses on celebrating the success of the bet with his friends, Eliza, who is fearful of the future, is unappreciated, and, saddened, leaves Higgins's home in anger.
She meets the infatuated Freddie on the doorstep, and after failing to pursue him after meeting him at the racecourse, he comes to hover under Eliza's window almost every night, silently watching Eliza, who is touched by his infatuation.
While Higgins attitude grumpy, however, is subtle, day after day, in Eliza betting away after thus become very bitter, he went to his mother's house to seek help, but accidentally met, but the two people but another fight. Higgins is surprised and angry when Eliza says she wants to marry Freddie, and leaves angrily. But on his way home, he can't stop thinking about Eliza, and believes that she has become part of his life.