From the day she was born, to her last day on earth, she was the Epitome of Beauty...Manners and Grace. Someone said of her that she was Graced by God, and I believe it.
The combination of inner and outer beauty, aristocracy and sophistication, a fragile appearance and a strong character, an extraordinary mind and a huge heart - all this is Audrey))) From Russia with love)))
Very well said. He helped make the interview something special and revealing as opposed to obtrusive. His heartfelt thank you at the end (and respectful tone throughout) serves as the perfect stand-in for all us Audrey fans. So impressive to me that Audrey Hepburn could have given her responses in two or more other languages. She was cinema royalty!
She is most graceful woman. She is so humble. Not proud at all. She is always my favorite hollywood actress. She has a beautiful smile and just looks like doll ,slender and feminine.. She is a woman of class ,on screen and even her behaviour is so down to earth.
as a 22 yo, I want this back. I'm not at all a fan of this rebellious attitude us young adults have. reason being is because theres no respect generally speaking. if we could match the future luxuries of now with the self respect of then, the world would be far better.
@@sterlingpinoy So beautifully said. You could be our next Audrey Hepburn! It’s good to see there are young people who appreciate class, dignity and grace. So many today dress like street walkers and talk like sailors. No matter how pretty a girl is, her behavior makes ugly. So Sterling, you are my hope for the future. Your parents and God have produced a lady!!
@@deestatham thank you for the kind compliments! Though I'm male, I take joy in your compliments and I just had to put the male version of words in there, haha. God bless and thank you again, have a great day!
What a great interview! AH is gorgeous like no other woman ever seen on screen but the marvelous interviewer deserves best credits, too. Pure class on both sides 🏆🏆 I just wished that kind of elegance would still be around…
How one of the most magnificent actresses of all time could say that she wasn't an actress is amazing. Such a wonderful interview with an absolute legend. Her humility and charm are astonishing.
2:20 In true fashion, Miss Hepburn is ignoring her wonderful early Broadway stagework including 'Gigi' and a Tony Award win for 'Ondine'. She was, of course, a consummate actress.
Audrey is a distant cousin and I adore her. Wonderful actress, humble, generous and a great humanitarian. This interview is a little gem. I miss you Audrey.
When I was younger, of course I appreciated how beautiful, warm and funny Audrey was in films. Now as an adult, I have enormous respect for how kindly and diplomatically she spoke of other people in interviews. It really is an inspiration and must have been an ethic of hers not to bash people in public, (though I can understand why people do because they might have been badly mistreated). I also really admire her courage and compassion in helping others through UNICEF, which really started way back when she was just a teenager during the war delivering messages a few times and putting on ballet performances in order to raise money. My Fair Lady and Funny Face are favorites of mine that she's done :)
In 1992 at age 62, she developed belly pain and her doctors found a cancer in her appendix called pseudomyxoma peritonei. This is an extremely rare cancer that starts as a small polyp in the appendix. The cancer cells produce large amounts of mucous, called mucin, that slowly accumulate in the appendix until it bursts. The cancer cells and mucous then spread throughout everything inside the belly to cause pain, constipation or diarrhea, loss of appetite and extreme tiredness. Hepburn returned to her home to Switzerland and spent her last days at home. On January 20, 1993, she died in her sleep. Nobody knows what causes this horrible cancer, as there are no known genetic, familial or environmental factors. We do not know if severe food deprivation in childhood increased Hepburn's risk for dying from cancer later in life.
Also started smoking and heavily from the beginning 3 packs a day till her illness. All of it had to come together. So sad she was wonderful on many levels.
Thank you Dr. Hawkins, for giving us all the info about her malicious cancer. We are all the better for being able to enjoy her movies while she was at her zenith.!!!!!
My all time favorite actress. Saw her movie Roman Holiday many times. The interviewer brings out the soul behind the name Audrey Hepburn. Learned how you can align with places and events in life to make the best of life. Enjoyed both the interviewer and Audrey’s articulations immensely. Loved every moment of it.
Her Joy and somber beauty and sincerity. Her presence. Had always housed me in the knowledge and security of faith in Goodness Beauty, and God. By her actions and serious humanity and attendance to the purity of her art. And her Diction, emphasis is its crispness intonation, and relaxed intensity. She is nobly Strong, has exqusite taste.. THE DRESS SORT OF MADE ME DO IT.
Since the age of 14 I was raptured with William Wilders blocking with Audrey whom is my first child's namesake. Probably esthetically this is my very favorite film of all time. Because to me it envelops, in minuscule representation, in universal form Truths between all mankind. Her created character's starry eyed sensitivity, shone transparently in Wilder's designed understanding of character and life's stages in attitude compelling reason for romance has no real reason...duet with a co.pelling Gary Cooper.whom In french art and cultures of love, innocently and purely he eminded her heroically of an Abraham Lincoln culture of spectacular feats.... IT takes courage to be faithful to love... And. The girl in the afternoon had spunk and yet this wide eyed comedy was romantic genre of neo classic naturalism speaking to our hearts aboutt what we all can say is rediculas, but at last long for in a parochial foot in modernity. At 13 and even 12 studying Western films with Cooper since early film days led to Saratoga Trunk, I Gary Cooper recognized became a character study of everyone's Everyman....until Mccarthyism. When she describes Americans as mechenized, and air conditioned.... The blossom foreshadows the illusion's last game bravely played together floored me in her organdy flocked floral day dress classic bubble . In comparrison flashed the dress my mother made me of the same with a deep purple velvet number bun, to carry the purple and iris printed flicking on white. My mother was extremely intuitive seamstress dressmaking was her mothers business. Her mother had a New York design House until her romance led her to Milwaukee, with her own business. My mother loved directing plays in the late 30's a copiously designed daughter of an early 19 century Polish Design House from which her Mother Martha came. Named Martha herself , born in 1919 Valentines Day, Mother made me this same dress I was in the summer of my 3rd & 4th grade able to wear my older sister's clothes. At 14 to see him play the irrisistable Playboy American, in Love In The Afternoon, who traveled in Europe and Scandinavian Countries as the CEO of investments in shipping yards, railroads, Turbo Jet Engine Pepsicola, and he "hit the spot" . Until this celloist daughter of Maurice Chevalier, the little league of left bank in Paris. His ego got a little run over for this classic Yeves St. Laurent classic Beauty, whom, Justly, for her courage and disposition he was inspired inspired and moved to change his perceptions by her.
She hardly takes any credit for being what she became, but watching her movies, she is due the majority of credit, because she shone so bright through the screen, that it changed the world for the better, as she would later prove by her work for Unicef.
Kkkk, sei praticamente tudo sobre a Audrey. Sou fã absoluto dela, mesmo após sua morte.. Tenho todos os filmes , livros sobre ela. Foram anos colecionando tudo. E ainda continuo procurando filme inédito dela. Sou o maior fã dela no Brasil. E ela merece porque é pessoa com muitos méritos. Sua história é muito fascinante.
We can’t forget that Audrey had passed starvation during the GSWar in Holand reason why her bad nutrition caused cancer., unfortunately !!! That’s muito thought from Brazil SP
I believe this white outfit is the same that she wore in her last film, "Always," and she came with her own wardrobe. The location was a burned forest so they had to bring her in on a stretcher so the outfit wouldn't get dirty.
considering that this is part of the Library of Congress, and Audrey constantly telling us, or again and again, that she wasn't an actress, or couldn't act as a professional [Hollywood actress], or couldn't dance, or couldn't cry the right moment in a movie, and all what it was that made her so, were the men being on her side, men like Billy Wilder who achieved then, that a good result - the outcome was as it was : s[plendid], makes as suspicious [or suspects] because we start asking who she was if not an actress and what she did perfectly if not acting..., and as well, a bit, where and when the actress Audrey Hepburn was left behind, or lost trace with her career...
I think she was just saying she was cast well so her natural personality was used more than putting on an act as she said she couldn't do roles like Lady Macbeth overly dramatic she liked playful and she had some dance experience but some costars were maybe more skilled than she or she was overly polite not too conceited also.
Haha, music by *not* one man in 1990! Johann Sebastian Bach, c.1720 (theme music: Brandenburg Concerto #3) and film-score composers. Otherwise, a superb program to treasure and re-watch.
Watching all these old interviews... The interviewers make me cringe, while she is timeless. Elegant and charming, no matter the era. When the interviewer started the sentence with "You appeal to men and women" I knew it was going to go south very quickly... and then when he elaborated on that statement at around 2:44 I just had to pause and write this comment. I wish we could get practically her monologues, with the other person cut out. The interviewers are just... well, their comments did not age well. Also this interviewer is heavily into mansplaining her statements.
Once you said ‘mansplain’ that revealed what kind of person you are. Interviewers frequently elaborate on a question when they feel it is necessary for clarification. Oh shit, did I just ‘mansplain’ something to you? You asked for it.
The thing that really disgusted me about Hepburn is that she was always paired with OLD MEN, compared to her age! That bothered me from the moment I first saw, “Sabrina”! I said, “No way would she EVER love that old dried up prune!” And YES, I meant Bogart. Just idiotic casting, I never understood that about her movies. She obviously hadn’t any control over it.
It's true how could a beautiful woman fall for Bogart? Such as Lauren Bacall who started dating him at 19 and he was 45. 20 when she married him and he was 45.
Alot of these actors had a say in who the leading lady would be it was in their contracts, if they didn't like who was cast they had veto power to say nope, i dont want her, and she was a very hot actress at the time and in demand, not to mention the fact that she was gorgeous, and had something in her, that appealed to them and the audience, and because they were up in age they were trying to cash in before the party ended so to speak. Once an actor reaches a certain age there are only so many roles they can get. Also times were different back Then a couple with a 20 year age difference wasnt frowned upon as much. Im not disagreeing with what you're saying, im simply explaining why they were cast with her. When she won the Oscar in her first major motion picture, that was it, she was an instant star and everyone wanted to be in movies with her, not to mention her work ethic was off the charts. Not only was she gorgeous, she put in the work.
Big name star, under contract to studio, name draws audience on marker. She, lesser role, had no say. Plus, the studio heads were preying upon the starlets themselves... so it was normal to them. 😢