When England declared war on Germany, the Baroness moved Hepburn back to Arnhem for safety. [9] They had two sons, Jonkheer Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles van Ufford (1920–1979) and Jonkheer Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford (1924–2010), before divorcing in 1925. I feel desperate. [132][133] With her short hair style, thick eyebrows, slim body, and "gamine" looks, she presented a look which young women found easier to emulate than those of more sexual film stars. [107], Hepburn met her second husband, Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti, on a Mediterranean cruise with friends in June 1968. [141] Hepburn herself stated that Givenchy "gave me a look, a kind, a silhouette. "[133] The magazine and its British version frequently reported on her style throughout the following decade.

Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston or Ruston-Hepburn (1889-1980), 5. With her impish smile and large eyes, she was cast at higher pay in the play’s sequel, "Sauce Piquant" (1950), in a few comedy skits. "Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. She was absolutely enchanting, and we said, 'That's the girl! The mission was to ferry food to southern Sudan. The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. In 1981 when Hepburn was 52, she met 46-year-old Robert Wolders, a Dutch-born investor and actor, who remained her companion for the rest of her life. [111], Upon returning from Somalia to Switzerland in late September 1992, Hepburn began suffering from abdominal pain. Hepburn also resisted Nazi occupation. Her service for children is also recognised through the United States Fund for UNICEF's Audrey Hepburn Society. However, many of those marital years were marked by Dotti's frequent affairs with younger women. “I felt she had two unhappy marriages, it was wonderful the way it was,” he says. Get push notifications with news, features and more. She remains one of only 16 people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. Was designer Hubert de Givenchy married before he died? [151][f], "We saw young men put against the wall and shot, and they'd close the street and then open it, and you could pass by again... Don't discount anything awful you hear or read about the Nazis. In the winter of 1944, Hepburn, who had already been enduring very little to eat, and her family were evicted when Nazi officers seized the Van Heemstra mansion.
GettyFrench fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy poses at the office of his fashion house in Paris on July 3, 1995. [9] In 1942, her uncle, Otto van Limburg Stirum (husband of her mother's older sister, Miesje), was executed in retaliation for an act of sabotage by the resistance movement; while he had not been involved in the act, he was targeted due to his family's prominence in Dutch society. "[146] In 1989, she stated that "my look is attainable ... Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large glasses and the little sleeveless dresses. Like others, Hepburn's family resorted to making flour out of tulip bulbs to bake cakes and biscuits;[33][34] she developed acute anaemia, respiratory problems and oedema as a result of malnutrition. [108] Dotti was unfaithful and she had a romantic relationship with actor Ben Gazzara during the filming of the movie Bloodline (1979). In June 1968, Hepburn was cruising to Greece with friends aboard the yacht of Italy’s Princess Olympia Torlonia when she met Dr. Andrea Dotti, an Italian psychiatrist. In 1950, Hepburn modeled part-time and registered herself as a freelance actress with the British film studio. [38] Hepburn made her film debut playing an air stewardess in Dutch in Seven Lessons (1948), an educational travel film made by Charles van der Linden and Henry Josephson.

She also was very funny. [20] Joseph left the family abruptly in 1935 after a "scene" in Brussels when Adriaantje (as she was known in the family) was six; later she often spoke of the effect on a child of being "dumped" as "children need two parents". If chance would have had it that we would have met at an earlier stage, we might not have had the discoveries together that we did have and found those things in life together that were valuable to us at a later point in life when we were both more mature.”. Hepburn had two miscarriages, one in March 1955,[103] and another in 1959, after she fell from a horse during the filming of The Unforgiven (1960). In the United States, Hepburn was featured in a 2006 Gap commercial which used clips of her dancing from Funny Face, set to AC/DC's "Back in Black", with the tagline "It's Back – The Skinny Black Pant". [56], Following her success in Roman Holiday, Hepburn starred in Billy Wilder's romantic Cinderella-story comedy Sabrina (1954), in which wealthy brothers (Humphrey Bogart and William Holden) compete for the affections of their chauffeur's innocent daughter (Hepburn). The war affected Hepburn’s extended family as well. When asked about the dubbing of an actress with such distinctive vocal tones, Hepburn frowned and said, "You could tell, couldn't you? I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority.

Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend in Golden Age Hollywood, and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. [135] Alongside model Twiggy, Hepburn has been cited as one of the key public figures who made being very slim fashionable. Although she appeared in no new film releases in 1955, Hepburn received the Golden Globe for World Film Favorite that year. After surgery, Hepburn began chemotherapy. Hepburn retained custody of Sean and married Dotti six weeks later. To celebrate its "Keep it Simple" campaign, the Gap made a sizeable donation to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund. In 1967 she starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. Get to know more about his family and life with longtime partner Philippe Venet. Sean Hepburn Ferrer is the son of Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer. Hepburn’s half-brother Alexander joined the underground Dutch resistance. During the movie Two for the Road, she had to shoot a scene falling in a pool.

Walker writes that it is unclear for what kind of company he worked; he was listed as a "financial adviser" in a Dutch business directory, and the family often travelled among the three countries. After her death, Gregory Peck went on camera and tearfully recited her favourite poem, "Unending Love" by Rabindranath Tagore. [27], After Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, Hepburn's mother moved her daughter back to Arnhem in the hope that, as during the First World War, the Netherlands would remain neutral and be spared a German attack. I had never seen that. [67][68][69][70] Hepburn stated that the role was "the jazziest of my career"[71] yet admitted: "I'm an introvert. Marianne Catherine van Hogendorp (1805-78), Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston or Hepburn-Ruston, Cheryl Crawford / Equity Liberty Theatre /, This page was last edited on 14 October 2020, at 17:21.

(6 January 1969). [9] As a result of her multinational background and travelling with her family due to her father's job,[19][c] she learned five languages: Dutch and English from her parents, and later varying degrees of French, Spanish, and Italian. [83] Andrews won an Academy Award for Mary Poppins at the 37th Academy Awards, but Hepburn was not even nominated. Hepburn’s half-brothers returned home. Critics applauded Hepburn's performance. While there, Hepburn attended the Arnhem Conservatory from 1939 to 1945. "[61] Reportedly, she spent hours in convents and with members of the Church to bring truth to her portrayal, stating that she "gave more time, energy, and thought to this than to any of my previous screen performances". Of her experiences in Venezuela and Ecuador, Hepburn told the United States Congress, "I saw tiny mountain communities, slums, and shantytowns receive water systems for the first time by some miracle – and the miracle is UNICEF.

I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering. She believed she would have more children and possibly stop working. [147][134] In 2004, Hepburn was named the "most beautiful woman of all time"[148] and "most beautiful woman of the 20th century"[149] in polls by Evian and QVC respectively, and in 2015, was voted "the most stylish Brit of all time" in a poll commissioned by Samsung.