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by devlinnn » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:32 pm
Call me a fan, but Ms. Audrey Hepburn was not only the last great movie star we will ever know - the last dream-maker - but a case can be made that she was the finest human being to ever grace the lands.
There's no real point going through her film work - it's all there to see. As Orson said, you only need one. Audrey had around half-a-dozen, across many genres - Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, Love in the Afternoon, My Fair Lady, Two for the Road, They All Laughed. Plus Charade, The Unforgiven, The Nun's Story, Wait Until Dark, War & Peace. Plus the ability to turn the deplorable Breakfast at Tiffany's into sprinkled stardust. Yes, the movie should have starred Monroe opposite Clift and Bankhead with Cukor as director. But then we would have been without Audrey sitting on that window ledge, guitar in hand, giving us hope as we all wait around the bend....
Off-screen however was her major role - surviving starvation during Nazi occupation while working for the underground as a child, then working her way to the top of her artistic field while also playing muse to the finest directors, composers and designers of the 20th century, walking away from it all to raise her kids, her continued, tireless work for Unicef while dying of cancer when only in her early sixties.
Very few of us make a difference, but just imagine what life would have been like without her.