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Ferrer Hepburn Sean. Audrey Hepburn, and elegant spirit. Simon & Schuster, 1999

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Audrey's childhood was cut short. With the start of the German war, her life took a twist. With her father leaving her at 6 years old, to having her name be temporarily changed. When the war started Audrey's mother "Ella" had the idea to change her name to Edda. The reason behind this name was because they thought the name "Audrey" would indicate her British roots to strongly.

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"My grandmother temporarily changed my mother's name from Audrey to Edda during the war, feeling that "Audrey" might indicate her British roots too strongly" (XV).

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During the war both Audrey's mother and father where both members of the British Union of fascist. If you don't know what a fascist is, it's  the Nazi government that ruled under Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1245. Despite this Audrey was actually helping the resistance. Some ways she helped was through her recitals, she would donate the money she earned to the help of the resistance.

https://www.biography.com/news/audrey-hepburn-facts-biography#:~:text=Hepburn%20helped%20the%20Resistance%20during,had%20pledged%20to%20stay%20neutral.

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Audrey Hepburn was only 63 years old when she died of cancer in 1993, but the European-born Hollywood legend packed more living into her time on earth than most people could do in a century. It's broadly known that she was the designer Givenchy's muse, that she retired from acting to do relief work for UNICEF and that women still show up at Tiffany's with bags of pastries thanks to Hepburn's iconic performance in Breakfast at Tiffany's. But while seemingly every moment of her adult life was documented, there's still a lot that most people don't know about the glamorous movie star. Here are six lesser-known facts about HHepburn.

Hepburn helped the Resistance during WWII, but her parents were Nazi Sympathizers

Hepburn's activism during World War II was always a part of her official biography. The actress moved to Holland during the war because her Dutch mother believed they would be safe in a country that had pledged to stay neutral. The Nazis invaded anyway. Hepburn, like millions of others, nearly starved when the Nazis cut off food supplies. Her envied slender figure was the result of being malnourished during adolescence.

According to legend, the teenaged Hepburn did what she could to support the Resistance. During her screen test for Roman Holiday, she recalled performing ballet for audiences that were afraid to applaud because they didn't want the Nazis to catch them. She donated the money she earned from her recitals to the Resistance. Like many other Dutch children, she occasionally acted as a courier, delivering papers and money from one group of resistance workers to another. Children were given this work because the Nazis were unlikely to search them. Hepburn's Hollywood handlers would publicize her bravery during the war, but they did their best to hide the fact that her parents were rooting for the Nazis.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

Hepburn's father, Joseph, who abandoned her when she was a little girl, and her mother, Ella, were members of the British Union of Fascists. In 1935, they toured Germany with other members of the organization, including the notorious Mitford sisters, British aristocrats who were jailed for their Nazi sympathies. After Hepburn's parents divorced, Ella returned to Germany to attend the Nuremberg rallies and wrote an enthusiastic account of the experience for fascist magazine The Blackshirt. Joseph was investigated by the British House of Commons for receiving seed money to start a newspaper from Germans with ties to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. He was imprisoned as an enemy of the state for the duration of the war.

During the 1950s, it would have been disastrous for Hepburn's squeaky clean image if it were known that her parents were Nazi sympathizers. By today's standards, her rejection of her parents' racist ideology makes her even more admirable.

She had a smoldering affair with William Holden during while filming 'Sabrina'

Hepburn had cemented her position as America's Sweetheart by the time she began filming Sabrina. Little did the public know that her relationship with her costar William Holden was anything but innocent. Their strong on-screen chemistry blossomed into an off-screen affair.

Holden was a notorious womanizer, and his wife, Ardis, usually tolerated his indiscretions because she believed they were meaningless flings. Holden even used to introduce his wife and his mistresses to each other. However, Ardis immediately realized that the educated, glamorous Hepburn was a threat to their marriage, as Holden was indeed prepared to leave his wife for the starlet. There was only one problem: Hepburn desperately wanted to have children.

When she told Holden she dreamed of starting a family with him, he informed her that he had gotten a vasectomy years ago. She dumped him on the spot, then quickly rebounded with actor Mel Ferrer, who was as eager to procreate as she was. Paramount, concerned that the tabloids might reveal Holden and Hepburn's affair, forced Hepburn and Ferrer to announce publicly their engagement at Holden's house in the presence of both him and his wife. That must have been the most spectacularly awkward party ever.

Hepburn sang 'Happy Birthday' to JFK the year After Marilyn Monroe

Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe's images were diametrically opposed to each other. Monroe was the voluptuous, ditzy sexpot while Hepburn was sophisticated and elegant. In fact, Truman Capote, who wrote the novel Breakfast at Tiffany's, wanted Monroe to play Holly Golightly in the film because he thought she would be more believable as a call girl. The character had to be changed significantly to fit Hepburn, though the result was an iconic, influential film.

If the two actresses ever went out for cocktails together, they might have discovered that they had a common ex: President John F. Kennedy. When JFK was still an unmarried senator, he dated Hepburn. Their relationship was neither scandalous nor serious. Monroe became Kennedy's mistress during his presidency and famously sang a sultry version of "Happy Birthday" to him at his birthday party. The next year, Hepburn was the movie star tasked with singing to the president on his birthday. Nobody remembers that far more appropriate performance.

Hepburn was an EGOT

The term EGOT is used to describe those rare individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hepburn is one of the 14 people who have managed this feat. All of her fans know that she won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for 1953's Roman Holiday. The next year she was awarded the Tony for Best Actress in a Drama for her performance in Ondine. Hepburn's Emmy and Grammy are more surprising. She retired from acting long before it became acceptable for movie stars to take TV roles. She won an Emmy for hosting PBS's 1993 documentary series Audrey Hepburn's Gardens of the World, which, as the title implies, featured avid gardener Hepburn visiting some of the world's most spectacular gardens.

The series premiered on January 21, 1993, the day after her death. It is likely that she got some Emmy votes for sentimental reasons. Hepburn's Grammy was also posthumous. She was considered a mediocre singer. Her voice was infamously dubbed in My Fair Lady because the film's producers felt it was too weak to carry a musical. So it is not surprising that her 1994 Grammy was for Best Spoken Word Album for Children. She won for Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales, which featured her reading classic fairy tales. Hepburn's accolades also include three Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTAs.
READ MORE: EGOT Winners: The Artists Who've Won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony
Walt Disney prevented her from starring in a live-action film of 'Peter Pan'

Hepburn would probably have been a great Peter Pan. Like Mary Martin, who played the role on Broadway, she was a petite woman who could have looked appropriately "boyish" and who certainly could have convincingly portrayed a child's innocence and enthusiasm. It nearly happened. In 1964, following the success of My Fair Lady, Hepburn planned to reunite with director George Cukor for a live-action film of the classic musical. Cukor began negotiating with London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, which inherited the rights to the play from playwright J.M. Barrie. Unfortunately, the movie was never made because Disney Studios claimed it had exclusive cinematic rights to Peter Pan.

The studio released an animated version of the story in 1953. The hospital launched legal action against Disney. Cukor wrote, ""[Disney] must or should recognise that he's trying to appropriate something for himself that belongs to a hospital for sick children. I don't think he'd cut a very good figure, in his eyes or anyone else's, if this was generally known. All the more so because he represents 'wholesome entertainment' to the world." The legal matter was not resolved until 1969, long after Cukor and Hepburn's interest waned.

A tulip breed was named after Hepburn

Hepburn had to eat tulip bulbs to survive during World War II. In 1990, her life came full circle when a new hybrid breed of tulip was named after her. According to the Netherlands Flower Information Society, the white flower was named for Hepburn, "as a tribute to the actress's career and her longtime work on behalf of UNICEF." Hepburn attended the dedication ceremony, which took place at her family's ancestral home in Holland. In Dutch, she expressed her gratitude for the honor. She gave the first official Hepburn Tulip to her elderly aunt Jacqueline.

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6 Facts You May Not Know About Audrey Hepburn

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Audrey Hepburn was only 63 years old when she died of cancer in 1993, but the European-born Hollywood legend packed more living into her time on earth than most people could do in a century.

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Audrey's mother Ella would always tell her Audrey stories, one of them being her death. She told her how once as a baby she slowly started turning blue, and how she revived her by spanking her repeatedly on the bottom. Which was convenient since they did not rely on medical attention at the time

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Audrey's father left her early in age, she was only six. After a twenty-year absence they finally reunited. It was Audrey's first husband Ferrer that help the reunion, he tracked him down through the red cross and found he lived in Ireland. Despite this reunion, Audrey still felt a disconnected. After their reunion she felt there was noting to say or do, she felt as if she never had to see her father again.

Quote: "There was nothing left to say or do" (10).
"..she didn't need to see her father again, she added" (10).

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One of the many things Audrey did throughout her life was being an actress. Some of the greatest film she participated were:
- "Green Mansions" (1959)
-"Bloodline" (1979)
-''They All Laughed" (1981)
-"The Unforgiving" (1960)
-"Always" (1989)
_ "The Children's Hour" (1961)
-Love in the Afternoon" (1957)
-"My Fair Lady" (1964)
-"War and Peace" (1956)
-"Sabrina" (1954)
-"Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961)
-"Paris When It Sizzles" (1964)
-"How to Steal a Million" (1966)
-"The Nun's Story" (1959)
-"Wait Until Night" (1967)
-"Two for the Road" (1967)
-"Roman Holidays" (1953)
-"Robin and Marian" (1976)
-"Funny Face" (1957)
-"Charade" (1963)

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/17/audrey-hepburn-20-greatest-films-ranked

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Audrey Hepburn’s 20 greatest films – ranked!

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On the 65th anniversary of Funny Face, we run down the Givenchy girl’s best moments – from upstaging her (usually much older) leading men to literally representing heaven in a dazzling white cable-knit

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Through her film acting career, Audrey landing some awards in her hands. Although she had many awards given to her, here are some of the many. In 1954 Audrey won an Oscar for Roman Holiday, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Still in the same year she filmed Ondine with her then husband Ferrer, which she later won the Tony Award for it.  In 1968, Audrey won Special Tony Award. And in 1959 she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award.

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"This was their first play together; she won the Tony Award for it, int he same year she got the Oscar For Roman Holiday" (64).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-vR7D21wqI

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Audrey Hepburn Wins Best Actress: 1954 Oscars

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Audrey Hepburn winning the Best Actress Oscar® for her performance in "Roman Holiday" at the 26th Annual Academy Awards® in 1954. Presented by Donald O'Connor and Gary Cooper.

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Hepburn and Hepburn an article on The American Weekly, written by Colette. This article talks about "a new star" this star being Audery. It talks about her upcoming in the film "Gigi" and how big of a pleasure it is to see her.

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Gene Moore, one of the best known portrait sittings of actress Audrey Hepburn. Gene came to know Audrey on her first coming to America. Gene was looking for models to base his mannequin designs on. Leading Gene Moore to design the windows of Tiffany's for over thirty-years.

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"She was so very beautiful, radiant and feminine, an ideal Collect heroine" (51).

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Throughout both her marriages Audrey had a total of three miscarriages, in 1955, 1959, and in 1974. Despite this rough  patch in her life, had two wonderful baby boys. Her first successful birth was with her first husband Mel Ferrer, she gave birth to her son Sean in 1960. Her second successful pregnancy was with her second husband Andrea Dotti, in 1969 to a baby boy named Luca.

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"She spoke soberly of her miscarriages and of the pain they brought"(140).

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Every pathway lead to an ending. In this case for Audrey it was her film. In March of 1988, Audrey had to make the big decision. For her it was a very easy decision, because she missed her children. When her older son started going to school, she could no longer take him with her to her films, which was very tough for her. Because of this she stopped accepting pictures. She soon said it was the best choice she could've made.

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September 24, 1954 in Burgenstock, Switzerland the day of Audrey's first marriage to Mel Ferrer. There marriage lasted 13 years until their divorce in 1968. They had one child together (Sean) which lead them to having a close relationship throughout their divorce.

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On January 18th, of 1969 in Morges Switzerland, Audrey married her second husband Andrea Dotti. This marriage lasted for 13 years. Throughout the marriage Dotti was marked having affairs with younger women. Audrey stayed with Dotti until she found it fit for her son to be able to cope with the divorce.

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Throughout Audreys whole life, she had a place in her heart for children. She would always find the need to help a child in need. Her dream was to become a mother of herself. through the dread of the loses of her miscarriages she managed she give birth to two children, whom she most loved. Despite her divorces between both children's fathers she made sure to continue to enjoy a complete relationship with both. She felt the need and desire for children to be happy.

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"....maybe I was born with it, is an enormous love of people, of children" (140).

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The UNICEF stands for United Nations Children's Fund. Audrey's contract with the UNICEF sated back to April 15, of 1988. Many people warned Audrey of the hardship this would bring, with he extent of the suffering, death, and despair there would be. Despite this she decided to keep going, she soon realized that it was true, but she saw the light in things. She witnessed how much is being done to help and how just a small amount of aid can assist in treating the sick, irrigating the land, and planting new crops.

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Somalia was Audrey's last UNICEF trip, and was probably the most important one. The case in Somalia had to be at its worst.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY5m9GAzrzk

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Only eighteen months after she started with the UNICEF, Audrey wrote a speech. In this speech you can see how big a connection the UNICEF had with Audrey's life. When she was little during WWI, Audrey was one of those children. She talked about her love and gratitude towards the UNICEF.

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"That is what UNICEF is all about- helping people to help themselves and giving them the aid to develop" (194).

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Audrey had been complaining about stomach pains since her return from Somalia. The doctors in Las Angeles put her through another battery of tests, yet all tests came back inconclusive. They advised that an investigative laparoscopy was in order. After the surgery they where informed they had found abdominal cancer, which has spread from her appendix.

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"After two hours, the surgeon came out to the waiting room and told us that they had found abdominal cancer that had spread from her appendix" (147).

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The name of the cancer was Pseudomyxoma Peritonei. This type of cancer usually begins in the appendix as a small growth, called polyp.

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Audrey was never the one to let out her emotions in front of people, especially her children. Despite her efforts to stay strong she couldn't. She couldn't resists crying out for help.She turned around to her son Sean (who at the time was helping her get dressed for surgery) and let out a cry. She told him how scared and terrified she was of that day. Sean had to stay strong for his mother, for his mother had stayed strong for him. He was their holding all her weight, as though it felt huge chunks of him where falling apart.

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" I stood there, holding her with all my might, as I felt huge chunks of me falling inside" (149).

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Audrey Hepburn at the United Nations | UNICEF

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January 20, of 1993 was the death of Audrey Hepburn. She was only 63. The cause of her death was cancer. A rare cancer called Pseudomyxoma Peritonei. This cancer spread rapidly throughout Audrey's body, soon causing her death. Despite this, Audrey lived a wonderful and unforgettable life.

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Throughout Audrey's life she had always been so precise on everything she did. She put thought and dedication in every move she did. She knew that all the little things in her life had meaning. On the last days of her life, she laid lifeless in her bed. Her son Sean would ask her questions, and she would simply star. Expect for one, if she had any regrets. She replied with a "No".

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Audrey was a big advocate for children's rights. Audrey was a goodwill ambassador for the UNICEF. The UNICEF spoke on behalf of and with children to support their rights. They ensured their safety, health, and provide safe and inclusive communities. The things that Audrey did throughout her life opened people's hearts and eyes to really see the bigger picture and what is really going on around the world. She also served as a really good film actress and model. She appeared in many roles, some in which she was the lead. She has inspired people of all ages young and old.

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Audrey's funeral was held in Switzerland. As they where carrying her coffin to her grave, her son Sean asked for help. He wanted all the paparazzi to leave. There was paparazzi all overhead that day of her funeral. He asked if there was any possible way to make them leave. Little did he know he had an angle watching from above. There was a no-fly zone between the hours of 10 am and 4 pm. They had a peaceful day, and clear blue skies.