Audrey Hepburn: Disney’s Sleeping Beauty
The iconic castle from “Sleeping Beauty,” by artist Eyvind Earle for Disney Up until the release of Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty” in 1959, the Disney characters were normally drawn first for a film and...
View ArticleI Love Lucy: Lucy Meets Bill Holden, Part 1
Everybody has a favorite “I Love Lucy” episode and this is mine: “L.A. at Last!”* Lucy’s husband Ricky Ricardo is filming a picture out in L.A. and has taken Lucy and the Mertzes out to California with...
View ArticleAudrey Hepburn: Growing Up Among the Nazis
It was May 9, 1940, and Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (Ruston) had just turned eleven years old. She was living in Holland with her mother, her two older brothers, and other relatives. Her father lived in...
View ArticleCarnation Day 1940
When the Germans invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, Ninette de Valois found herself trapped in The Hague. She was the director of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet Company from England. She and her 42 dancers...
View ArticleAudrey Hepburn: The New Sexy?
In 1954, British photographer and creative artist, Cecil Beaton, wrote this article for “Vogue” about a rising film star named Audrey Hepburn. Miss Hepburn was 25 and the newest sensation. She had just...
View ArticleAudrey Hepburn, Dirty Guttersnipe
In the 1964 Academy Award winning musical, “My Fair Lady,” linguistics professor Henry Higgins places a bet with his colleague Colonel Pickering. He boasts that, in six months time, he can transform a...
View ArticleMy Fair Lady: That Ascot Dress
On June 19, 2011,the Ascot dress and hat worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 Academy Award-winning film, “My Fair Lady,” sold at auction for an incredible $3.7 million. The ensemble was designed by...
View ArticleAudrey Hepburn: Ice Cream Cone at Tiffany’s
Actress Audrey Hepburn hated Danish pastries. However, as Holly Golightly in the 1962 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Audrey was required to nibble one outside the New York jewelry store Tiffany’s. She...
View ArticleEdith Head: The Dress Doctor is In
It was summer vacation of 1924 and Edith Head, 27, wanted a new job. She was tired of making peanuts – $1500 a year – teaching French and art at the Hollywood School for Girls. She did have a husband...
View ArticleAudrey Hepburn & the Family Skeletons
Readers, at the beginning of this year, I had entertained the idea of writing a juvenile biography of Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) and the five years she spent in Nazi-occupied Holland as an underground...
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