Audrey Hepburn

Teen actress Emmy Rossum, who actually played Hepburn as a child in the Jennifer Love Hewitt bio-pic, is also considered a candidate. She was buried in Melrose Abbey Memorial Park Cemetery, Anaheim, California. Portman in fact once dressed as Hepburn for a modelling photo shoot, while Tautou closely resembles Hepburn physically. Chemotherapy did little to slow the course of the disease and she died the following year in West Hollywood, California. A number of current actresses have been suggested by fans as acceptable choices should another attempt at a bio-pic be made. Among names most often mentioned are Natalie Portman and Audrey Tautou. While appearing in the television series Capitol in 1982, she was diagnosed with colon cancer and she played many of her scenes in a wheelchair. It was aired as a mini-series in some countries, and in a truncated version on American TV. Her acting career began to decline after the demise of "The Addams Family" in 1966, and while she continued to act, her roles were sporadic.

The film is generally seen as a disappointment, with most of the criticism being directed at the casting of Hewitt in the role, though footage of the real Audrey Hepburn appears at the very end of the picture. Several versions of the film exist. In 1964 she began playing Morticia Addams in the television series The Addams Family, a role which brought her success as a comedienne and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Hewitt also produced the film. By 1963 she and Spelling were separated, and by 1964 they were divorced. The 2000 American made for television effort, The Audrey Hepburn Story starred Jennifer Love Hewitt as the actress. In 1958 she shared a Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer" with Sandra Dee and Diane Varsi, and appeared with Elvis Presley in King Creole. To date only one biographical film based upon Audrey Hepburn's life has been attempted. She appeared in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1957), and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957).

Some sources state that Hepburn makes a cameo appearance in the 1963 Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward film, A New Kind of Love but this has not been confirmed. Donna Reed was cast in her role. She also appeared in an April 1952 episode of CBS Television Workshop entitled "Rainy Day at Paradise Junction" which predates her "official" American debut in Roman Holiday. According to some biographies, Hepburn claimed to have made "several" American and British TV appearances before Roman Holiday, and a poster for a 1951 British public appearance listed her as a TV actress, but so far a copy of "Rainy Day" is the only example of this early work to have surfaced. A role in House of Wax (1953) brought her good reviews, and she was cast in From Here to Eternity (also 1953), but illness forced her withdrawal. In addition to the above, Hepburn hosted the 1993 television series, Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn for PBS, a nine-episode documentary series which premiered the day of her death. In 1953 she married aspiring filmmaker Aaron Spelling, and her film career began to gain momentum. Hepburn died of colon cancer on January 20, 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63, and was interred there. She secured a contract with Paramount Studios and made her first film in 1952.

At the time of her death she was the companion of Robert Wolders, a Dutch actor who was the widower of film star Merle Oberon. Born Carolyn Sue Baker in Amarillo, Texas, Jones joined the Pasadena Playhouse in 1947. Hepburn married twice, to actor Mel Ferrer and to Italian doctor Andrea Dotti, and had two sons. Carolyn Jones (April 28, 1929 - August 3, 1983) was an American actress. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1652 Vine Street. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded her The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her contribution to humanity, and her son accepted the award shortly after her death.

In 1992, President George Bush presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF. Grateful for her own good fortune after being a victim of Nazi atrocities as a child, she dedicated the remainder of her life to helping impoverished children in the world's poorest nations. From 1967 onward, after fifteen highly successful years in film, Hepburn acted only occasionally and her last role was filmed in 1988 just before she was appointed a special ambassador to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, Hepburn co-starred with other major actors such as Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, Peter O'Toole, and Sean Connery.

Her performance as Holly Golightly in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's resulted in the creation of one of the most iconic characters in 20th Century American cinema. In the film Funny Face, Hepburn's mother appeared as the patron of a sidewalk café. For her performance in this movie she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and over her illustrious career she would be nominated for best actress four more times. After being chosen to play the lead character in the Broadway play Gigi (opened on November 24, 1951), and after a successful six-month run in New York, she was offered a starring role in the Hollywood motion picture Roman Holiday, co-starring Gregory Peck.

After the war, Hepburn and her mother moved to London where she studied ballet, worked as a model, and in 1951 began acting in films, mostly in minor or supporting roles; her first major performance was in the 1951 film The Secret People. Without heat in their homes, or food to eat, people in the Netherlands starved and froze to death in the streets; particularly so in Arnhem, which was devastated during Operation Market Garden. Suffering from malnutrition, Hepburn developed several health problems, and the impact of those times would shape her life and values. During the Dutch famine over the winter of 1944, brutality increased and the Nazis confiscated the Dutch people's limited food and fuel supply for themselves. After the landing of the Allied Forces on D-Day, things grew worse under the German occupiers.

[1] (http://www.genealogics.org/histories/9396.text.jpg). It was never her legal name. At that time she adopted the pseudonym Edda Van Heemstra, modifying her mother's documents to do so, because an "English-sounding" name was considered dangerous. Hepburn attended private schools in England and the Netherlands, but after the 1935 divorce of her parents she was living with her mother at Arnhem when the German invasion and occupation of World War II occurred.

She had two half-brothers, Alexander, and Ian Quarles van Ufford, by her mother's first marriage to a Dutch nobleman. Her father appended the name Hepburn to his surname, and Audrey became Audrey Hepburn-Ruston at the same time. Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels she was the daughter of Joseph Anthony Ruston, a British banker, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings. Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929 - January 20, 1993) was a Belgian-born actress.

Hepburn is considered by many in Japan as a model for feminine beauty. Despite the similar career choices, Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn were neither sisters nor even closely related in any way despite occasional, and mistaken, press reports to the contrary. Opera diva Maria Callas reportedly loved Hepburn's look so much that she adopted it for herself in the 1950s. Nederlands in 7 lessen (1948) - bit role; also known as Dutch in Seven Lessons.

Laughter in Paradise (1951) - bit role. One Wild Oat (1951) - bit role. Young Wives' Tale (1951) - bit role. Monte Carlo Baby (1951) - two versions of this film were released, one in English and one in French.

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) - bit role. The Secret People (1952). Roman Holiday (1953). Sabrina (1954).

War and Peace (1956). Funny Face (1957). Mayerling (1957) - produced as an episode of the TV series Producers' Showcase and released to theatres in Europe. Love in the Afternoon (1957).

The Nun's Story (1959). Green Mansions (1959). The Unforgiven (1960). Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).

The Children's Hour (1961). Charade (1963). Paris - When it Sizzles (1964). My Fair Lady (1964).

How to Steal A Million (1966). Two for the Road (1967). Wait Until Dark (1967). Robin and Marian (1976).

Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline (1979). They All Laughed (1981). Love Among Thieves (1987) - made for television. Always (1989).