131-548: George Peppard ( / p ə ˈ p ɑːr d / ; October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor. He secured a major role as struggling writer Paul Varjak when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). On television, he played the title role of millionaire insurance investigator and sleuth Thomas Banacek in
262-649: A BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role , and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1953. In his review in The New York Times , A. H. Weiler wrote: "Although she is not precisely a newcomer to films, Audrey Hepburn, the British actress who is being starred for the first time as Princess Anne, is a slender, elfin, and wistful beauty, alternately regal and childlike in her profound appreciation of newly-found, simple pleasures and love. Although she bravely smiles her acknowledgement of
393-503: A UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador . A month later, she died of appendix cancer at her home in Tolochenaz , Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63. Audrey Kathleen Ruston (later, Hepburn-Ruston ) was born on 4 May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles , a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. She was known to her family as Adriaantje . Hepburn's mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (1900–1984),
524-652: A chorus girl in the West End musical theatre revues High Button Shoes (1948) at the London Hippodrome , and Cecil Landeau's Sauce Tartare (1949) and Sauce Piquante (1950) at the Cambridge Theatre . Also, in 1950, she worked as a dancer in an exceptionally "ambitious" revue, Summer Nights, at Ciro's London , a prominent nightclub . During her theatrical work, she took elocution lessons with actor Felix Aylmer to develop her voice. After being spotted by
655-468: A European princess who escapes the reins of royalty and has a wild night out with an American newsman ( Gregory Peck ). On 18 September 1951, shortly after Secret People was finished but before its premiere, Thorold Dickinson made a screen test with the young starlet and sent it to director William Wyler , who was in Rome preparing Roman Holiday . Wyler wrote a glowing note of thanks to Dickinson, saying that "as
786-640: A German attack. While there, Hepburn attended the Arnhem Conservatory from 1939 to 1945. She had begun taking ballet lessons during her last years at boarding school, and continued training in Arnhem under the tutelage of Winja Marova, becoming her "star pupil". After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Hepburn used the name Edda van Heemstra, because an "English-sounding" name was considered dangerous during
917-531: A ballet scholarship with Ballet Rambert , which was then based in Notting Hill . She supported herself with part-time work as a model, and dropped "Ruston" from her surname. After she was told by Rambert that despite her talent, her height and weak constitution (the after-effect of wartime malnutrition) would make the status of prima ballerina unattainable, she decided to concentrate on acting. While Ella worked in menial jobs to support them, Hepburn appeared as
1048-412: A body out of every high school cheerleader's teenage lust fantasy." Ashley claimed Peppard "was never late on set and he had nothing but scorn for actors who weren't professional enough to keep that together." She added that Peppard: Never was one of those actors who believes his job is to take the money, hit the mark and say the lines and let it go at that. He felt that as an above-the-title star he had
1179-509: A chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. Hepburn rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck , for which she was the first actress to win an Oscar , a Golden Globe Award , and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. That year, she also won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine . Hepburn went on to star in
1310-537: A fashion photographer, discovers a beatnik bookshop clerk (Hepburn) who, lured by a free trip to Paris, becomes a beautiful model. Hepburn starred in another romantic comedy, Love in the Afternoon (also 1957), alongside Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier . Hepburn played Sister Luke in The Nun's Story (1959), which focuses on the character's struggle to succeed as a nun, alongside co-star Peter Finch . The role produced
1441-401: A huge hit with The Blue Max (1966), playing a German World War One ace, alongside James Mason and Ursula Andress , directed by John Guillermin . "He could carry these big films," said Filmink . Film critic David Shipman writes of this stage in his career: "With his cool, blond baby-face looks and a touch of menace, of meanness, he had established a screen persona as strong as any of
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#17330856474751572-471: A job as a shoemaker so that he can remain in London and see Rose. Scene 3 Simon Eyre wakes his fellow shoemakers and wife to begin the work day. Lacy, disguised as a Dutch Shoemaker named "Hans", passes the shop singing a Dutch song. One of Eyre's apprentices, Firk, notices Lacy and asks Eyre to hire him. Eyre denies the request, but is met by Hodge, his foreman, and Firk threatening to leave unless their desire
1703-519: A jungle girl who falls in love with a Venezuelan traveller, and The Unforgiven (1960), her only western film , in which she appeared opposite Burt Lancaster and Lillian Gish in a story of racism against a group of Native Americans. Hepburn next starred as New Yorker Holly Golightly in Blake Edwards 's Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), a film loosely based on the Truman Capote novella of
1834-576: A leading figure in Dutch ballet, and Russian teacher Olga Tarasova. Due to the loss of the family fortune, Ella had to support them by working as a cook and housekeeper for a wealthy family. 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. Later that year, Hepburn moved to London after accepting
1965-508: A limited release. Six years later, Hepburn co-starred with Robert Wagner in a made-for-television caper film , Love Among Thieves (1987). After finishing her last motion picture role—a cameo appearance as an angel in Steven Spielberg 's Always (1989)—Hepburn completed only two more entertainment-related projects, both critically acclaimed. Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn
2096-415: A mission called "Operation Lifeline". Because of civil war, food from aid agencies had been cut off. The mission was to ferry food to southern Sudan . Hepburn said, "I saw but one glaring truth: These are not natural disasters but man-made tragedies for which there is only one man-made solution – peace." In October 1989, Hepburn and Wolders went to Bangladesh. John Isaac , a UN photographer, said, "Often
2227-579: A nightmare. I have seen famine in Ethiopia and Bangladesh, but I have seen nothing like this – so much worse than I could possibly have imagined. I wasn't prepared for this." Though scarred by what she had seen, Hepburn still had hope stating: As we move into the twenty-first century, there is much to reflect upon. We look around us and see that the promises of yesterday have to come to pass. People still live in abject poverty, people are still hungry, people still struggle to survive. And among these people we see
2358-419: A number of successful films such as Sabrina (1954), in which Humphrey Bogart and William Holden compete for her affection; Funny Face (1957), a musical in which she sang her own parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant ; and the musical My Fair Lady (1964). In 1967, she starred in
2489-519: A play. The meeting led them to collaborate in Ondine , during which they began a relationship. Eight months later, on 25 September 1954, they were married in Bürgenstock , Switzerland, while preparing to star together in the film War and Peace (1956). She and Ferrer had a son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer , born on 17 June 1960. Prior to Sean's birth, Hepburn had two other pregnancies that ended in miscarriages,
2620-431: A result of the test, a number of the producers at Paramount have expressed interest in casting her." The producers of the film had initially wanted Elizabeth Taylor for the role, but Wyler was so impressed by Hepburn's screen test that he cast her instead. Wyler later commented, "She had everything I was looking for: charm, innocence, and talent. She also was very funny. She was absolutely enchanting, and we said, 'That's
2751-515: A round of beer to smooth things over. Hodge reveals the plan to buy the cargo and Eyre, getting ahead of himself, dons a velvet coat and alderman's gown. He leaves with the Skipper to complete the deal. Scene 2 Dodger, Lincoln's servant, finds out that Lacy was staying in England to woo Rose. Dodger is paid by Lincoln to find Lacy. Scene 3 Hammon attempts to court Rose with Otley's blessing, but she
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#17330856474752882-599: A series of successful films during the remainder of the decade, including her BAFTA- and Golden Globe-nominated role as Natasha Rostova in War and Peace (1956), an adaptation of the Tolstoy novel set during the Napoleonic wars, starring Henry Fonda and her husband Mel Ferrer. She exhibited her dancing abilities in her debut musical film , Funny Face (1957), wherein Fred Astaire ,
3013-627: A shoe. Otley arrives and suspects nothing. A servant brings news that Lincoln is on his way, leaving Lacy just enough time to escape. Scene 5 Otley and Lincoln discuss how they intend to separate Rose and Lacy. Their plan is to find Lacy and send him to France. Sybil bursts in to reveal that Rose has eloped with a shoemaker. While Otley demands an explanation, Firk arrives with some shoes for Rose. He reveals that Hans and Rose are planning to be married. Lincoln then realizes that Hans must be Lacy and pays Firk to tell him at which church Rose and Hans will be married. Firk gives Lincoln and Otley directions to
3144-428: A spoken-word recording titled Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales earned her a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children . She stands as one of few entertainers who have won competitive Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards known as EGOT . Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role . In recognition of her film career, she received BAFTA's Lifetime Achievement Award,
3275-647: A taxi and being a mechanic in a motorcycle repair shop. He worked in summer stock in New England and appeared at the open air Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon for two seasons. In August 1955, he appeared in the play The Sun Dial . He worked as a cab driver until getting his first part in Lamp Unto My Feet . He appeared with Paul Newman , in The United States Steel Hour (1956), as
3406-549: A third Academy Award nomination for Hepburn, and earned her a second BAFTA Award. A review in Variety reads: "Hepburn has her most demanding film role, and she gives her finest performance", while Henry Hart in Films in Review stated that her performance "will forever silence those who have thought her less an actress than a symbol of the sophisticated child/woman. Her portrayal of Sister Luke
3537-400: A thriller, The Third Day (1965) with Ashley who had become his second wife. The film was directed by Jack Smight who claimed Warner Bros only agreed to finance it because they had a deal with Peppard. Peppard said when he made the film "I wasn't just broke I was up to my ears in debt." He was announced for The Last Night of Don Juan for Michael Gordon but it was not made. He was cast as
3668-469: A war film with Sophia Loren . It was the first film he made under a new contract with MGM to do one movie a year for three years. He was meant to follow this with an adaptation of the play Merrily We Roll Along but it was never made. "I'm an actor not a star," he said around this time, adding that he looked for "three things" in a film, "a good director, a good part and a good script. If I get two out of three of those I'm satisfied." Peppard starred in
3799-629: A year when his father died in 1951 and he had to finish his father's jobs.) He also trained at the Pittsburgh Playhouse . While living in Pittsburgh, Peppard worked as a radio DJ at WLOA in Braddock, Pennsylvania . While giving a weather update, he famously called incoming snow flurries "flow snurries". This was an anecdote he repeated in several later interviews, including one with former NFL player Rocky Bleier for WPXI. In addition to acting, Peppard
3930-487: A young widow pursued by several men who chase after the fortune stolen by her murdered husband. The 59-year-old Grant, who had previously withdrawn from the starring male lead roles in Roman Holiday and Sabrina , was sensitive about his age difference with 34-year-old Hepburn, and was uncomfortable about the romantic interplay. To satisfy his concerns, the filmmakers agreed to alter the screenplay so that Hepburn's character
4061-479: Is a suspense thriller in which Hepburn demonstrated her acting range by playing the part of a terrorised blind woman. Filmed on the brink of her divorce, it was a difficult film for her, as husband Mel Ferrer was its producer. She lost fifteen pounds under the stress, but she found solace in co-star Richard Crenna and director Terence Young . Hepburn earned her fifth and final competitive Academy Award nomination for Best Actress; Bosley Crowther affirmed, "Hepburn plays
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4192-405: Is even more luminous as the daughter and pet of the servants' hall than she was as a princess last year, and no more than that can be said." Hepburn also returned to the stage in 1954, playing a water nymph who falls in love with a human in the fantasy play Ondine on Broadway . A critic for The New York Times commented that "somehow, Miss Hepburn is able to translate [its intangibles] into
4323-405: Is furious to learn that Lacy might be in London and suspects that this explains why Rose rebuffed Hammon's advances. Scene 4 Margery sends Firk to Guildhall to discover whether Eyre has been made Master Sheriff of London. Afterwards, she asks Hans and Hodge to craft a special pair of shoes for her. She then lists other accessories that she needs, including a wig and fan, despite the criticism of
4454-423: Is met. Eyre eventually hires Lacy. Scene 4 Master Hammon and Master Warner, two wealthy men, are hunting deer on the land adjacent to Roger Otley's country house. A boy informs them that their targeted game has left. Scene 5 Hammon and Warner arrive at Roger Otley's house looking for the deer. Rose and Sybil say they have not seen it, and they have further discussion with the men. Otley arrives and welcomes
4585-522: Is none other than Jane's husband, Ralph. Jane is elated and chooses to return to Ralph. Hammon offers money to Ralph for Jane's hand in marriage and is met with outrage. Lincoln and Otley arrive to stop the wedding, thinking Jane and Ralph are Rose and Lacy in disguise. As soon as they learn their mistake, Dodger arrives with news that Rose and Lacy are married and that Eyre intends to beg the King that Lacy be pardoned for his crimes. The church bells ring to begin
4716-452: Is not receptive to his advances. He then decides to pursue a local shop-girl that he knows. Otley decides to send his daughter back to their country house following this news. This allows him then to do business with Simon Eyre. Master Scott reveals to Otley that Simon Eyre has made a lot of money on the sale of the Dutch cargo. Otley promises to do business with Eyre. Dodger arrives and asks Otley if he knows where Lacy might be hiding. Otley
4847-403: Is one of the great performances of the screen." Hepburn spent a year researching and working on the role, saying, "I gave more time, energy, and thought to this role than to any of my previous screen performances". Following The Nun's Story , Hepburn received a lukewarm reception for starring with Anthony Perkins in the romantic adventure Green Mansions (1959), in which she played Rima ,
4978-634: Is so winning and so right that she is the success of the evening". Hepburn also received a Theatre World Award for the role. The play ran for 219 performances, closing on 31 May 1952, before going on tour, which began 13 October 1952 in Pittsburgh and visited Cleveland , Chicago, Detroit, Washington, D. C., and Los Angeles, before closing on 16 May 1953 in San Francisco. Hepburn had her first starring role in Roman Holiday (1953), playing Princess Ann,
5109-461: Is that Audrey Hepburn superbly justifies the decision of Jack Warner to get her to play the title role." Gene Ringgold of Soundstage also commented that, "Audrey Hepburn is magnificent. She is Eliza for the ages", while adding, "Everyone agreed that if Julie Andrews was not to be in the film, Audrey Hepburn was the perfect choice." The reviewer in Time magazine said her "graceful, glamorous performance"
5240-418: Is the only person I know who is brilliant." "I want to be an actor and proud of my craft", said Peppard. "I would like to be an actor who is starred but being a star is something you can't count on whereas acting is something I can work on." It was a success at the box office, although the film's high cost meant that it was not profitable. Peppard's next film for MGM was The Subterraneans , an adaptation of
5371-401: Is too much for me. The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering. In August 1988, Hepburn went to Turkey on an immunisation campaign. She called Turkey "the loveliest example" of UNICEF's capabilities. Of the trip, she said, "The army gave us their trucks, the fishmongers gave their wagons for
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5502-712: The Ealing Studios casting director, Margaret Harper-Nelson, while performing in Sauce Piquante , Hepburn was registered as a freelance actress with the Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC). She appeared in the BBC Television play The Silent Village , and in minor roles in the films One Wild Oat , Laughter in Paradise , Young Wives' Tale , and The Lavender Hill Mob (all 1951). She
5633-497: The German occupation . Her family was profoundly affected by the occupation, with Hepburn later stating that "had we known that we were going to be occupied for five years, we might have all shot ourselves. We thought it might be over next week… six months… next year… that's how we got through". 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
5764-699: The Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award , the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award and the Special Tony Award . Later in life, Hepburn devoted much of her time to UNICEF , to which she had contributed since 1954. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia. In December 1992, Hepburn received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as
5895-1010: The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her contribution to humanity. In 2002, at the United Nations Special Session on Children , UNICEF honoured Hepburn's legacy of humanitarian work by unveiling a statue, "The Spirit of Audrey", at UNICEF's New York headquarters. Her service for children is also recognised through the United States Fund for UNICEF 's Audrey Hepburn Society. Alongside her native English and Dutch, Hepburn also had some fluency in French (which she learned at school in Belgium), German, Italian, and Spanish. Throughout her life, Hepburn lived in many countries, including spending her childhood in Belgium, England, and
6026-450: The novella of the same name by Truman Capote . Director Blake Edwards had not wanted Peppard, but was overruled by the producers. He was cast in July 1960. During filming Peppard did not get along with Hepburn or Patricia Neal , the latter calling him "cold and conceited". In November 1961, a newspaper article dubbed him "the next big thing". Peppard said he had turned down two TV series and
6157-547: The 1958 novel by Jack Kerouac co starring Leslie Caron . It flopped and Peppard said "I couldn't get arrested" afterwards. He had meant to follow The Subterraneans by returning to Broadway with Julie Harris in The Warm Peninsular but this did not happen. In April 1959 Hedda Hopper said he would be in Chatauqua but that was not made until a decade later, starring Elvis Presley , as The Trouble with Girls (1969). At
6288-616: The 1960s, Hepburn renewed contact with her father after locating him in Dublin through the Red Cross ; she supported him financially until his death although he remained emotionally detached. 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
6419-627: The Academy and Tony Awards for Best Actress in the same year (the other two are Shirley Booth and Ellen Burstyn ). During the production, Hepburn and her co-star Mel Ferrer began a relationship, and were married on 25 September 1954 in Switzerland. Although she appeared in no new film releases in 1955, Hepburn received the Golden Globe for World Film Favorite that year. Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, she starred in
6550-500: The B.U.F. Joseph left the family abruptly in 1935 after a "scene" in Brussels. He subsequently moved to London, where he became more deeply involved in the Fascist activity and never visited Hepburn abroad. That same year, Ella moved to her family's estate in Arnhem with her daughter; her sons, Alex and Ian, were sent to The Hague to live with relatives. Joseph wanted Hepburn to be educated in
6681-747: The Depression, and his father had to leave George and his mother in Detroit while he went looking for work. Peppard grew up in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan . He graduated from Dearborn High School in 1946. Peppard enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on July 8, 1946, and rose to the rank of corporal , leaving the Corps at the end of his enlistment in January 1948. During 1948 and 1949, he studied civil engineering at Purdue University where he
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#17330856474756812-535: The Dutch resistance effort. It was long believed that she participated in the Dutch resistance itself, but in 2016 the Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein' reported that after extensive research it had not found any evidence of such activities. A 2019 book by Robert Matzen provided evidence, based on Hepburn's personal statements, that she had supported the resistance by giving "underground concerts" to raise money, delivering
6943-695: The Forest"), The Alcoa Hour ("The Big Build-Up" with E. G. Marshall ), Matinee Theatre ("End of the Rope" with John Drew Barrymore , "Thread That Runs So True", "Aftermath"), Kraft Theatre ("The Long Flight"), Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("The Diplomatic Corpse", with Peter Lorre directed by Paul Henreid ), and Suspicion ("The Eye of Truth" with Joseph Cotten based on a script by Eric Ambler ). The Strange One came out in April 1957 but despite some strong reviews – The New York Times called Peppard "resolute". – it
7074-551: The Gentle Craft is an Elizabethan play written by Thomas Dekker . The play was first performed in 1599 by the Admiral's Men , and it falls into the subgenre of city comedy . The story features three subplots: an inter-class romance between a citizen of London and an aristocrat, the ascension of shoemaker Simon Eyre to Lord Mayor of London, and a romance between a gentleman and a shoemaker's wife, whose husband appears to have died in
7205-516: The Hill was a prestigious film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Robert Mitchum , who played Peppard's father. It featured several young actors MGM were hoping to develop, including Peppard, George Hamilton , and Luana Patten . During filming, Peppard said " Brando is a dead talent – I saw him in The Young Lions " – but said Peck is "a man of integrity as a star and a person. Lee Strasberg
7336-470: The Netherlands, and her adult years in the United States, Italy, and Switzerland, and traveled extensively during her later years of life as part of her humanitarian work with UNICEF. In 1952, Hepburn became engaged to industrialist James Hanson , whom she had known since her early days in London. She called it "love at first sight", but after having her wedding dress fitted and the date set, she decided
7467-547: The Netherlands. She attended boarding school in Kent, England from 1936 to 1939. With the outbreak of World War II , she returned to the Netherlands. During the war, Hepburn studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory and by 1944, she performed ballet to raise money to support the Dutch resistance . Hepburn studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945 and with Marie Rambert in London from 1948. She began performing as
7598-525: The United Kingdom, so in 1937, she was sent to live in Kent, where she, known as Audrey Ruston or "Little Audrey", was educated at a small private school in Elham . Her parents officially divorced the next year. Later in her life, she often spoke of the effect on a child of being "dumped" as "children need two parents"; she professed that her father's departure was "the most traumatic event of my life". In
7729-468: The Wind has a motion picture created such universal excitement as My Fair Lady ", although Hepburn's casting in the role of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle was a source of dispute. Julie Andrews , who had originated the role on stage, was not offered the part because producer Jack L. Warner thought Hepburn was a more "bankable" proposition. Hepburn initially asked Warner to give the role to Andrews but
7860-461: The affections of their chauffeur's innocent daughter (Hepburn). For her performance, she was nominated for the 1954 Academy Award for Best Actress, while winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role the same year. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times stated that she was "a young lady of extraordinary range of sensitive and moving expressions within such a frail and slender frame. She
7991-451: The age of 26. He is best known for securing the French crown and for his depiction in Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Part 1 , Henry IV, Part 2 , and Henry V . Dekker uses this correlation in The Shoemaker's Holiday , as an English king appears in scenes 19 and 21; however, he is only identified as "The King" in the speech prefix in the first printed edition of the play. Scene 1 Sir Hugh Lacy (Lincoln) and Sir Roger Otley discuss
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#17330856474758122-470: The cast of Girls of Summer directed by Jack Garfein with Shelley Winters , Storch and Hingle, plus a title song by Stephen Sondheim . This reached Broadway in November. Brooks Atkinson said Peppard "expertly plays a sly, malicious dance teacher." It had only a short run. The bulk of his work around this time was for television: The Kaiser Aluminum Hour ("A Real Fine Cutting Edge", directed by George Roy Hill ), Studio One in Hollywood ("A Walk in
8253-400: The children, always the children: their enlarged bellies, their sad eyes, their wise faces that show the suffering, all the suffering they have endured in their short years. United States president George H. W. Bush presented Hepburn with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF , and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences posthumously awarded her
8384-487: The church where Hammon will marry Jane. Scene 1 Eyre, who is now the Lord Mayor, sends Rose and Lacy to be married with his blessing. Left alone, Simon soliloquizes about an impending visit from the King, who wishes to see the new market buildings Eyre has constructed. Eyre also looks forward to the holiday feast he is planning. Scene 2 Ralph, Hodge, and Firk approach Hammon and Jane on their way to be wed. Hodge and Firk berate Jane and then reveal that their companion
8515-478: The couple subsequently lived. Before divorcing in 1925, they had two sons, Jonkheer Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles van Ufford (1920–1979) and Jonkheer Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford (1924–2010). Hepburn's father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (1889–1980), was a British subject born in Auschitz , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary. He was the son of Victor John George Ruston, who was of British and German-Austrian background, and Anna Juliana Franziska Karolina Wels, who
8646-453: The early-1970s mystery series Banacek . He played Col. John "Hannibal" Smith , the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squad in the 1980s action television series The A-Team . George Peppard Jr. was born October 1, 1928, in Detroit , the son of building contractor George Peppard Sr and music voice teacher Vernelle Rohrer Peppard. His mother had five miscarriages before giving birth to George. His family lost all their money in
8777-420: The end of 1959 Hopper predicted Peppard would be a big star saying "he has great emotional power, is a fine athlete, and does offbeat characters such as James Dean excelled in." Sol Siegel announced he would play the lead in Two Weeks in Another Town . ( Kirk Douglas ended up playing it.) He was also announced for the role of Arthur Blake in a film about the first Olympics called And Seven from America which
8908-545: The end of that affair, she remains a pitifully lonely figure facing a stuffy future." Hepburn was signed to a seven-picture contract with Paramount , with 12 months in between films to allow her time for stage work. She was featured on 7 September 1953 cover of Time magazine, and also became known for her personal style. 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
9039-427: The famine. Suffering from the effects of malnutrition , after the war ended Hepburn became gravely ill with jaundice , anaemia , oedema , and a respiratory infection. In October 1945, a letter from Ella asking for help was received by Micky Burn , a former lover and British Army officer with whom she had corresponded while he was a prisoner of war in Colditz Castle . He sent back thousands of cigarettes, which she
9170-426: The film "is not too well acted", with the exception of Hepburn, who "gives the impression of being sensitive and pure" of its "muted theme". Variety magazine also compliments Hepburn's "soft sensitivity, marvelous projection and emotional understatement", adding that Hepburn and MacLaine "beautifully complement each other". Hepburn next appeared opposite Cary Grant in the comic thriller Charade (1963), playing
9301-471: The film for her perfume. Dubbed " marshmallow -weight hokum" by Variety upon its release in April, the film was "uniformly panned" but critics were kinder to Hepburn's performance, describing her as "a refreshingly individual creature in an era of the exaggerated curve". Hepburn's second film released in 1964 was George Cukor 's film adaptation of the stage musical My Fair Lady , which premiered in October. Soundstage wrote that "not since Gone with
9432-564: The filming, and decided to cast Hepburn in the title role in the Broadway play Gigi . Hepburn went into rehearsals having never spoken on stage, and required private coaching. When Gigi opened at the Fulton Theatre on 24 November 1951, she received praise for her performance, despite criticism that the stage version was inferior to the French film adaptation. Life called her a "hit", while The New York Times stated that "her quality
9563-509: The girl! ' " Originally, the film was to have had only Gregory Peck's name above its title, with "Introducing Audrey Hepburn" beneath in smaller font. Peck suggested Wyler elevate her to equal billing so her name appears before the title, and in type as large as his: "You've got to change that because she'll be a big star, and I'll look like a big jerk." The film was a box-office success, and Hepburn gained critical acclaim for her portrayal, unexpectedly winning an Academy Award for Best Actress ,
9694-467: The hunters. Otley later claims that he intends to marry Hammon to Rose. Scene 1 On behalf of Eyre, "Hans" uses his previous connection with a Dutch skipper to secure the purchase of a valuable cargo. Hodge explains that Eyre stands to make a lot of money when he sells on the cargo. Eyre and his wife Margery arrive at the shoemaker's shop and Margery lambasts the men for not working harder. When Firk and Hodge threaten to quit, Eyre scolds his wife and buys
9825-607: The kids would have flies all over them, but she would just go hug them. I had never seen that. Other people had a certain amount of hesitation, but she would just grab them. Children would just come up to hold her hand, touch her – she was like the Pied Piper ." In October 1990, Hepburn went to Vietnam, in an effort to collaborate with the government for national UNICEF-supported immunisation and clean water programmes. In September 1992, four months before she died, Hepburn went to Somalia. Calling it "apocalyptic", she said, "I walked into
9956-455: The language of the theatre without artfulness or precociousness. She gives a pulsing performance that is all grace and enchantment, disciplined by an instinct for the realities of the stage". Her performance won her the 1954 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play three days after she won the Academy Award for Roman Holiday , making her one of three actresses to receive
10087-613: The lead in Sands of the Kalahari (1965) at a fee of $ 200,000 but walked off the set after only a few days of filming in March 1965 and had to be replaced by Stuart Whitman . Paramount sued Peppard for $ 930,555 in damages and he countersued. Ashley later wrote: What tormented George so badly was that he was caught between being an actor and a movie star. He did not start off as an untalented pretty nothing who had to be grateful for any piece of meat that
10218-441: The marriage would not work because the demands of their careers would keep them apart most of the time. She issued a public statement about her decision, saying "When I get married, I want to be really married". In the early 1950s, she also dated future Hair producer Michael Butler . At a cocktail party hosted by mutual friend Gregory Peck , Hepburn met American actor Mel Ferrer , and suggested that they star together in
10349-444: The men surrounding her. Ralph returns from the war, during which he has injured his leg. The shoemakers welcome him home and commiserate with him. Ralph asks about his wife Jane and learns that she is reputed to be in London. Scene 5 Otley welcomes Eyre and Margery to his home. Otley asks Margery to counsel Rose on her behavior, and she does so. The shoemakers arrive and perform a morris dance. Rose instantly recognizes Lacy. After
10480-399: The northern port of Shoa . It can't be distributed. Last spring, Red Cross and UNICEF workers were ordered out of the northern provinces because of two simultaneous civil wars... I went into rebel country and saw mothers and their children who had walked for ten days, even three weeks, looking for food, settling onto the desert floor into makeshift camps where they may die. Horrible. That image
10611-405: The now-married Hepburn, and his alcoholism was beginning to affect his work. After principal photography began, she demanded the dismissal of cinematographer Claude Renoir after seeing what she felt were unflattering dailies . Superstitious, she also insisted on dressing room 55 because that was her lucky number and required that Hubert de Givenchy , her long-time designer, be given a credit in
10742-510: The part of a dutiful daughter trying to help her father with the help of a man played by Peter O'Toole . The film was followed by two films in 1967. The first was Two for the Road , a non-linear and innovative British dramedy that traces the course of a couple's troubled marriage. Director Stanley Donen said that Hepburn was freer and happier than he had ever seen her, and he credited that to co-star Albert Finney . The second, Wait Until Dark ,
10873-454: The play End as a Man . It was the first film from Garfein as director and Calder Willingham as producer, plus for Peppard, Ben Gazzara , Geoffrey Horne , Pat Hingle , Arthur Storch and Clifton James . Filming took place in Florida. "I wouldn't say I was nervous," said Peppard, "just excited." On his return to New York, he performed in "Out to Kill" on TV for Kraft . In September he joined
11004-480: The poignant role, the quickness with which she changes and the skill with which she manifests terror attract sympathy and anxiety to her and give her genuine solidity in the final scenes." After 1967, Hepburn chose to devote more time to her family and acted only occasionally. She attempted a comeback playing Maid Marian in the period piece Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery co-starring as Robin Hood , which
11135-593: The potential relationship blooming between their charges Rowland Lacy and Rose Otley. The men discuss the class barrier that would be broken by the said relationship. Lincoln discovers the King's plan for Rowland to lead an army in France. Rowland arrives as Otley is leaving. Lincoln advises Lacy to enter the war in France and leave Rose behind. Lacy agrees, and Lincoln exits. Lacy asks his cousin Askew to go ahead to France without him because he has business in London. Askew agrees, but
11266-456: The production of Bloodline (1979), sharing top-billing with Ben Gazzara , James Mason , and Romy Schneider . The film, an international intrigue amid the jet-set , was a critical and box-office failure. Hepburn's last starring role in a feature film was opposite Gazzara in the comedy They All Laughed (1981), directed by Peter Bogdanovich . The film was overshadowed by the murder of one of its stars, Dorothy Stratten , and received only
11397-402: The resistance movement; while he had not been involved in the act, he was targeted due to his family's prominence in Dutch society. These family events were the turning point in the attitude of Hepburn's mother, who had flirted with Nazism up to this point. Hepburn's half-brother Ian was deported to Berlin to work in a German labour camp , and her other half-brother Alex went into hiding to avoid
11528-415: The responsibility to use his muscle and power to try and make it better and that has never stopped in him. He was unrelenting about it, to the point where a lot of executives and directors came to feel he was a pain in the ass. But the really talented people loved working with him because of all his wonderful creative energy. "My performances bore me", said Peppard in a 1964 interview, adding that his ambition
11659-528: The same fate. "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. It's worse than you could ever imagine." After her uncle's death, Hepburn, Ella, and Miesje left Arnhem to live with her grandfather, Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, in nearby Velp . Around that time Hepburn gave silent dance performances that reportedly raised money for
11790-480: The same name. Capote disapproved of many changes that were made to sanitise the story for the film adaptation, and would have preferred Marilyn Monroe to have been cast in the role, although he also stated that Hepburn "did a terrific job". The character is considered one of the best-known in American cinema , and a defining role for Hepburn. The dress she wears during the opening credits has been considered an icon of
11921-632: The second one at six months. Ferrer was rumoured to be too controlling, and had been referred to by others as being her " Svengali " – an idea that Hepburn laughed off. William Holden was quoted as saying, "I think Audrey allows Mel to think he influences her." After a 14-year marriage, the couple divorced in 1968. Hepburn met her second husband, Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti , on a Mediterranean cruise with friends in June 1968. She believed she would have more children and possibly stop working. They married on 18 January 1969, and their son Luca Andrea Dotti
12052-699: The shoemakers leave, Sybil promises Rose that she will devise a plan to marry her mistress to "Hans." Scene 1 Hammon spies on Jane while she works alone in a clothes shop. He attempts to woo her, but she says she is already married and her husband Ralph is fighting in France. Hammon reveals that he has received word that Ralph is dead. Jane is upset upon hearing this news, prompting Hammon to propose marriage to her. Hammon does not leave until Jane promises that, if she does remarry, it will be to him. Scene 2 The shoemakers discuss their increasing prosperity. Sybil arrives and requests that "Hans" come to meet with Rose, and they depart. Scene 3 Hammon's servant visits
12183-549: The shoemakers to order a pair of shoes for his master's bride, since they will be married the next day. He shows Ralph a shoe belonging to the woman and asks him to make a pair of the same dimensions. Ralph recognizes the shoe and realizes that the bride is his own wife, Jane. The servant leaves and Firk arrives. The shoemakers strategize about how to interrupt Jane's wedding and reunite her with Ralph. Scene 4 Sybil interrupts Lacy and Rose with news that Otley approaches. Lacy falls back on his disguise and pretends to fit Rose with
12314-786: The singing, guitar-playing baseball player Piney Woods in Bang the Drum Slowly , directed by Daniel Petrie . He appeared in an episode of Kraft Theatre , "Flying Object at Three O'Clock High" (1956). In March 1956, Peppard was on stage, off Broadway, in Beautiful Changes . In April 1956, he appeared in a segment of an episode of "Cameras Three" performing from The Shoemaker's Holiday ; The New York Times called his performance "beguiling". In July 1956, he signed to make his film debut in The Strange One directed by Jack Garfein , based on
12445-485: The suburban Brussels municipality of Linkebeek in 1932. Hepburn's early childhood was sheltered and privileged. Due to her father's job, the family travelled back and forth between three countries, enhancing her multinational background. In the mid-1930s, Hepburn's parents recruited and collected donations for the British Union of Fascists (B.U.F). Ella met Adolf Hitler and wrote favourable articles about him for
12576-467: The summer of 1962 before Charade, Hepburn reunited with her Sabrina co-star William Holden in Paris When It Sizzles (1964), a screwball comedy in which she played the young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter, who aids his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots. Its production was troubled by several problems. Holden unsuccessfully tried to rekindle a romance with
12707-481: The thriller Wait Until Dark , receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. After that, Hepburn only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery . Her last recorded performances were in the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn , for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming . In 1994, Hepburn's contributions to
12838-420: The time, Joseph worked for a trading company, but soon after the marriage, the couple moved to Europe, where he began working for a loan company; reportedly tin merchants MacLaine, Watson, and Company in London. After a year in London, they moved to Brussels, where he had been assigned to open a branch office. After three years spent traveling between Brussels, Arnhem, The Hague and London, the family settled in
12969-552: The time. He might have been the Alan Ladd or the Richard Widmark of the sixties: but the sixties didn't want a new Alan Ladd. Peppard began appearing in a series of action movies, predictably as a tough guy, but there were much tougher guys around — like Cagney , Bogart and Robinson , whose films had now become television staples." Audrey Hepburn Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston ; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993)
13100-712: The twentieth century, and perhaps the most famous "little black dress" of all time. Hepburn stated that the role was "the jazziest of my career" yet admitted: "I'm an introvert. Playing the extroverted girl was the hardest thing I ever did." She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. The same year, Hepburn also starred in William Wyler's drama The Children's Hour (1961), in which she and Shirley MacLaine play teachers whose lives are destroyed after two pupils accuse them of being lesbians. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times writes that
13231-630: The two are interrupted by a band of shoemakers led by Simon Eyre. Eyre and his men ask Lacy to allow Ralph, Eyre's youngest apprentice and a newly conscripted soldier, to be allowed to stay in London with his new bride, Jane. Lacy refuses. Ralph gifts Jane a pair of shoes specifically designed for her and then departs. Scene 1 Rose dreamt of Lacy, her absent love. Rose's maid, Sybil, arrives with news from London: she recognizes Lacy in costume. Rose asks Sybil to ensure that Lacy has embarked for France. Rose promises Sybil expensive clothes for her troubles. Scene 2 Lacy soliloquizes about his plan to seek
13362-576: The underground newspaper, and taking messages and food to downed Allied flyers hiding in the woodlands north of Velp. She also volunteered at a hospital that was the center of resistance activities in Velp, and, according to Hepburn, her family temporarily hid a British paratrooper in their home during the Battle of Arnhem . In addition to other traumatic events, she witnessed the transportation of Dutch Jews to concentration camps , later stating that "more than once I
13493-844: The vaccines, and once the date was set, it took ten days to vaccinate the whole country. Not bad." In October, Hepburn went to South America. 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 watched boys build their own schoolhouse with bricks and cement provided by UNICEF." Hepburn toured Central America in February 1989, and met with leaders in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. In April, she visited Sudan with Wolders as part of
13624-458: The wars with France. The play is a "citizen" drama, or a depiction of the life of members of London's livery companies , and it follows in Dekker's style of depicting everyday life in London. The events of the play occur during the reign of King Henry VI , though also hinting at the reign of Henry V. Henry V succeeded his father, Henry IV, as leader of England following Henry IV's death in 1413 at
13755-448: Was "concentrating on big screen roles." His contract with MGM was for two pictures a year, allowing for one outside film and six TV appearances a year, plus the right to star in a play every second year. "In a series you don't have time to develop a character," he said. "There's no build up; in the first segment you're already established." He was meant to appear in Unarmed in Paradise which
13886-489: Was "the best of her career". Andrews won an Academy Award for Mary Poppins at the 1964 37th Academy Awards and Hepburn earned Best Actress nominations for Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Circle awards. Hepburn appeared in an assortment of genres including the heist comedy How to Steal a Million (1966). Hepburn played the daughter of a famous art collector, whose collection consists entirely of forgeries that are about to be exposed as fakes. Her character plays
14017-508: Was a PBS documentary series, which was filmed on location in seven countries in the spring and summer of 1990. A one-hour special preceded it in March 1991, and the series itself began its national PBS premiere on 24 January 1993, the day of her funeral services in Tolochenaz. For the "Flower Gardens" episode, Hepburn was posthumously awarded the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming. The other project
14148-696: Was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career in Hollywood and was recognised as a film and fashion icon , she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List . Born into an aristocratic family in Ixelles , Brussels, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England and
14279-487: Was a Dutch noblewoman. Ella was the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra , who served as the mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and as the governor of Dutch Guiana from 1921 to 1928, and Baroness Elbrig Willemine Henriette van Asbeck (1873–1939), a granddaughter of Count Dirk van Hogendorp . At age 19, she married Jonkheer Hendrik Gustaaf Adolf Quarles van Ufford—an oil executive based in Batavia, Dutch East Indies , where
14410-402: Was a hit and ran for a year. During the show's run, Peppard auditioned successfully for MGM's Home from the Hill (1960) and the studio signed him to a long-term contract – which he had not wanted to do but was a condition for the film. In February 1959, Hedda Hopper announced Peppard would leave Company to make two films for MGM: Home from the Hill and The Subterraneans . Home from
14541-551: Was a member of the Purdue Playmakers theatre troupe and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He became interested in acting, being an admirer of Walter Huston in particular. "I just decided I didn't want to be an engineer," he said later. "It was the best decision I ever made." Peppard then transferred to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University ) in Pittsburgh , where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1955. (It took longer than normal because he dropped out for
14672-663: Was a pilot. He spent a portion of his 1966 honeymoon training to fly his Learjet in Wichita, Kansas . Peppard made his stage debut in 1949 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. After moving to New York City, Peppard enrolled in the Actors Studio , where he studied the Method with Lee Strasberg . He did a variety of jobs to pay his way during this time, such as working as a disc jockey, being a radio station engineer, teaching fencing, driving
14803-439: Was a spoken word album, Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales , which features readings of classic children's stories and was recorded in 1992. It earned her a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children . In the 1950s, Hepburn narrated two radio programmes for UNICEF , re-telling children's stories of war. In 1989, Hepburn was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF . On her appointment, she stated that she
14934-501: Was able to sell on the black market and thus buy the penicillin which saved Hepburn's life. The Van Heemstra family's financial situation changed significantly through the occupation, during which time many of their properties (including their principal estate in Arnhem) were damaged or destroyed. After the war ended in 1945, Hepburn moved with her mother and siblings to Amsterdam , where she began ballet training under Sonia Gaskell ,
15065-459: Was at the station seeing trainloads of Jews being transported, seeing all these faces over the top of the wagon. I remember, very sharply, one little boy standing with his parents on the platform, very pale, very blond, wearing a coat that was much too big for him, and he stepped on the train. I was a child observing a child." After the Allied landing on D-Day , living conditions grew worse, and Arnhem
15196-445: Was born on 8 February 1970. While pregnant with Luca in 1969, Hepburn was more careful, resting for months before delivering the baby via caesarean section . Hepburn suffered a miscarriage in 1974. Dotti and Hepburn were unfaithful, he with younger women and she with actor Ben Gazzara during the filming of Bloodline (1979). The marriage lasted twelve years and was dissolved in 1982. From 1980 until her death in 1993, Hepburn
15327-625: Was cast in her first major supporting role in Thorold Dickinson 's Secret People (1952), as a prodigious ballerina, performing all of her own dancing sequences. Hepburn then took a small role in a bilingual film, Monte Carlo Baby (French: Nous Irons à Monte Carlo , 1952), which was filmed in Monte Carlo . Coincidentally, French novelist Colette was at the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo during
15458-502: Was cast in part because he was unfamiliar to moviegoers. In May 1958, he appeared in stock in A Swim in the Sea . In October 1958, Peppard appeared on Broadway in The Pleasure of His Company (1958) starring Cyril Ritchard , who also directed. Peppard played the boyfriend who wants to marry Dolores Hart who was Ritchard's daughter; The New York Times called Peppard "admirable". The play
15589-551: Was eventually cast. Further friction was created when, although non-singer Hepburn had sung in Funny Face and had lengthy vocal preparation for the role in My Fair Lady , her vocals were dubbed by Marni Nixon , whose voice was considered more suitable to the role. Hepburn was initially upset and walked off the set when informed. Critics applauded Hepburn's performance. Crowther wrote that, "The happiest thing about [ My Fair Lady ]
15720-465: Was going to do Next Time We Love with Ross Hunter but it was never made. He starred in The Carpetbaggers , a 150-minute saga of a ruthless, Hughes-like aviation and film mogul based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Harold Robbins . The cast included Elizabeth Ashley, who had an affair with Peppard during filming and later married him. She described him as "some kind of Nordic god – six feet tall with beautiful blond hair, blue eyes and
15851-644: Was grateful for receiving international aid after enduring the German occupation as a child, and wanted to show her gratitude to the organisation. Hepburn's first field mission for UNICEF was to Ethiopia in 1988. She visited an orphanage in Mek'ele that housed 500 starving children and had UNICEF send food. Of the trip, she said, I have a broken heart. I feel desperate. I can't stand the idea that two million people are in imminent danger of starving to death, many of them children, [and] not because there isn't tons of food sitting in
15982-404: Was in a relationship with Dutch actor Robert Wolders , the widower of actress Merle Oberon . She had met Wolders through a friend during the later years of her second marriage. In 1989, she called the nine years she had spent with him the happiest years of her life, and stated that she considered them married, just not officially. The Shoemaker%27s Holiday The Shoemaker's Holiday or
16113-411: Was moderately successful. Roger Ebert praised Hepburn's chemistry with Connery, writing, "Connery and Hepburn seem to have arrived at a tacit understanding between themselves about their characters. They glow. They really do seem in love. And they project as marvellously complex, fond, tender people; the passage of 20 years has given them grace and wisdom." Hepburn reunited with director Terence Young in
16244-494: Was never made. Peppard returned to television to star in an episode of the anthology series Startime , " Incident at a Corner " (1960) under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock alongside Vera Miles . He played Teddy Roosevelt on television in an episode of Our American Heritage , "The Invincible Teddy" (1961). His good looks, elegant manner and acting skills landed Peppard his most famous film role as Paul Varjak in Breakfast at Tiffany's with Audrey Hepburn , based on
16375-636: Was not a financial success. In September 1957, he appeared in a trial run of a play by Robert Thom , The Minotaur , directed by Sidney Lumet . Peppard played a key role in Little Moon of Alban (1958) alongside Christopher Plummer for the Hallmark Hall of Fame . The Los Angeles Times called him "excellent". In May 1958, Peppard played his second film role, a support part in the Korean War movie Pork Chop Hill (1959) directed by Lewis Milestone . He
16506-651: Was not made. He bought a script by Robert Blees called Baby Talk but it was also unmade. Instead, MGM cast him in the lead of their epic western How the West Was Won in 1962.(His character spanned three sections of the episodic Cinerama extravaganza.) It was a massive hit. He followed this with a war story for Carl Foreman , The Victors (1963), made in Europe. He was offered $ 200,000 to appear in The Long Ships but did not want to go to Yugoslavia for six months. He
16637-657: Was of German-Austrian origin and born in Kovarce . In 1923–1924, he was an Honorary British Consul in Semarang , Dutch East Indies and, prior to his marriage to Hepburn's mother, was married to Cornelia Bisschop, a Dutch heiress. Joseph later changed his surname to the more "aristocratic" double-barrelled Hepburn-Ruston, perhaps at Ella's insistence, as he mistakenly believed himself descended from James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell . Hepburn's parents were married in Batavia in 1926. At
16768-492: Was pursuing him. The film turned out to be a positive experience for him; he said, "All I want for Christmas is another picture with Audrey Hepburn." The role earned Hepburn her third, and final, competitive BAFTA Award, and another Golden Globe nomination. Critic Bosley Crowther was less kind to her performance, stating that, "Hepburn is cheerfully committed to a mood of how-nuts-can-you-be in an obviously comforting assortment of expensive Givenchy costumes." Although filmed in
16899-477: Was subsequently heavily damaged during Operation Market Garden . During the 1944–45 Dutch famine , the Germans hindered or reduced the already limited food and fuel supplies to civilians in retaliation for Dutch railway strikes that were held to disrupt the occupation. Like others, Hepburn's family resorted to making flour out of tulip bulbs to bake cakes and biscuits, a source of starchy carbohydrates; Dutch doctors provided recipes for using tulip bulbs throughout
17030-410: Was thrown his way. He was intelligent and talented but because he was six foot tall with blond hair and blue eyes he had been put in the slot of being a movie star at a time when the movie studios were still very powerful and expected you to play the game by their rules ... I don't think it was possible to be a male movie star who looked like he did and got hot when he did and not be trapped by it. He had
17161-642: Was to deliver "one great performance. And I must say I feel a little presumptuous to shoot for that. But that's the goal, like a hockey goal. I figure I've got a choice ... not of the outcome but of the objective. And my objective is that one performance." Peppard returned to television to do Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre , "The Game with Glass Pieces". In March 1964 he tried to break his MGM contract to make The Great Adventure for Anthony Mann. For MGM, he appeared in Operation Crossbow (1965),
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