Roger Moore; Audrey Hepburn; Wombat. Watch Intimate Portrait: Audrey Hepburn at TVGuide.com. Mildred Miller Remembered: An Intimate Portrait of an American Artist By Xlibris. Audrey Hepburn: the iconic movie star as you've never seen her Among the many well- known images of Audrey Hepburn in the forthcoming National Portrait Gallery exhibition, there are some that are not so familiar. There is a little girl of around nine, smiling rather pensively at the camera; another in which a teenage Hepburn studiously practises her arabesques; and one that shows her smiling from ear to ear holding a bunch of flowers, having miraculously survived the Dutch “Hunger Winter” during the Second World War. Hepburn after the liberation of Holland, 1. War and Peace, 1. National Picture Gallery; George Daniell Archive and Dwayne and Gina De. Joy) Many of the photographs in Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon, which opens next month, belong to Audrey Hepburn’s sons. It is the first time they have lent their personal photographs to an exhibition in this country. Luca Dotti, Hepburn’s son from her second marriage to the Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti, is a graphic designer who lives in Rome with his wife and three children. He believes that his mother’s defining characteristics – her generosity, warmth and professionalism – were forged during her difficult childhood. When Hepburn was six, her father left the family, something she described as “the most traumatic event of my life”. Dotti says this left her “always, in a way, in need of that paternal affection” and says he finds the picture of her as a girl of nine particularly moving. Audrey Hepburn Remembered (1993) (TV). An Intimate Portrait (1993) (TV) aka Audrey Hepburn Remembered (1993) (TV) The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000) (TV) Intimate Portrait: Audrey Hepburn (1996) (TV) (archive footage). Audrey Hepburn: Remembered (1993) (TV). Audrey: An Intimate Portrait: Diana Maychick: 9780708932766: Books - Amazon.ca. Amazon.ca Try Prime Books. Sign in Your Account Try. When you see your parents at an age that you can relate to your own children, it’s emotional.” At the outbreak of war, Hepburn and her mother moved to Holland but shortly after they arrived, the Nazis invaded. In the winter of 1. Holland began to starve. Hepburn was severely malnourished and said she was lucky to be alive. Her son says her feeling of gratitude at having survived never left her. Everything after that was a bonus.” The 1. Hepburn after liberation. Hepburn (far left) at a ballet class in 1. Arnold Bouvet) One of the things that made Hepburn intriguing to watch was that she radiated a wide- eyed, childlike innocence as well as a rather mournful sagacity (perfectly captured in her rendition of “Moon River”in Breakfast at Tiffany’s). Her experience during childhood and the war, Dotti says, left her wise beyond her years, yet in a kind of state of arrested development. With an experience like the war, there’s a part of you that ages too quickly and a part that stays young all your life.” The war left other indelible imprints. Audrey Hepburn: the iconic movie star as you've never seen her Ahead of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, the son of the actress.Hepburn had always wanted to become a ballet dancer – the exhibition includes photographs of her taken during the war at the Arnhem School of Music – and in 1. Hepburn and her mother moved to London so she could study at the Rambert Ballet School. But because of the Dutch famine, Hepburn’s muscles had not developed properly and she lacked the strength of the other dancers. In his biography of his mother, Sean Hepburn Ferrer (Hepburn’s son from her first marriage to the actor Mel Ferrer), says that, “She remembered going back to her room and . The photographer Antony Beauchamp, who saw Hepburn perform in 1. All I was conscious of were the dancing eyes of that sprite in the chorus and for the rest of the evening I could scarcely take my eyes away from her face.” After that came small parts in films and, in 1. Gigi on Broadway, marked by her first appearance in American Vogue with a portrait by Irving Penn. Hepburn’s mother had lost all her money in the war, and wartime poverty and hunger were not yet a distant memory. And that was the spirit she kept all her life.” In 1. Hepburn made Roman Holiday, the film that catapulted her into the Hollywood mainstream and for which she won her only Oscar. This was when she began to formulate a particular look – thanks in part, says Dotti, to the Italian make- up artist on the film who encouraged Hepburn to stop plucking her eyebrows. Hepburn may not have had the sexual klaxon effect of Marilyn Monroe, but the flat- chested, gamine look made her stand out. Cecil Beaton, who photographed Hepburn for the first time in 1. British Vogue, wrote that, “It took the rubble of Belgium, an English accent and an American success to launch the striking personality that best exemplifies our new Zeitgeist.” Dotti says that despite being told she was beautiful, Hepburn never believed it. She was self- conscious – she thought her feet and ears were too big, the rest of her too flat – and never enjoyed the constant scrutiny of her looks. It was partly why, when Dotti was born in 1. Hepburn had divorced Mel Ferrer in 1. Andrea Dotti in 1. Hepburn was happy to retreat from the limelight. At a costume test for Sabrina, 1. Paramount Pictures; Marion van Suchtelen) “She had a very busy life – the war, her career. A movie was three to six months to make, but then it was sometimes two years to promote it. That was a lot of pressure,” Dotti says. In fact, Dotti says he had little understanding of how famous his mother was. In a new book about his mother, Audrey at Home, Dotti writes, “As a little boy, when a group of journalists persistently asked me about her, I responded, somewhat annoyed, . Dotti says that it was this, not her film career, that gave her most satisfaction (he says that while the Oscar for Roman Holiday was wedged on a shelf in his playroom, her humanitarian awards were displayed in the sitting room). She died in January 1. For Dotti, who was then only 2. Audrey Hepburn “the star”, who the public were grieving for. It’s a pose of spontaneous and unselfconscious joy. I didn’t realise that when she was around; it was just normal to me. But now I’m getting older myself, I realise that she regarded everything in life – a tiny flower or a holiday – as equally special. That is, in itself, a wonderful thing to teach.” Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon is at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 2 July- 1.
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