by Barry Paris
13. THE NUN’S STORY (1959). Warner Brothers. Produced by Henry Blanke. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Written by Robert Anderson, from the book by Kathryn C. Hulme. Photographed by Franz F. Planer. Music by Franz Waxman. Edited by Walter Thompson. Art Direction by Alexander Trauner. Costumes by Marjorie Best. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Sister Luke, Gabrielle Van Der Mal), Peter Finch (Dr. Fortunati), Dame Edith Evans (Mother Emmanuel), Dame Peggy Ashcroft (Mother Mathilde), Dean Jagger (Dr. Van Der Mal), Mildred Dunnock (Sister Margharita), Beatrice Straight (Mother Christophe), Patricia Collinge (Sister William), Eva Kotthaus (Sister Marie), Ruth White (Mother Marcella), Niall McGinnis (Father Vermeuhlen), Patricia Bosworth (Simone), Barbara O‘Neil (Mother Katherine), Lionel Jeffries (Dr. Goovaerts), Margaret Phillips (Sister Pauline), Rosalie Crutchley (Sister Eleanor), Colleen Dewhurst (Archangel), Stephen Murray (Chaplain), Orlando Martins (Kalulu), Errol John (Illunga), Jeannette Sterke (Louise Van Der Mal), Richard O’Sullivan (Pierre Van Der Mal), Diana Lambert (Lisa), Marina Wolkonsky (Marie Van Der Mal).A nursing nun in the Belgian Congo struggles with her own worthiness and—after the death of her father—whether she should give up the sisterhood to fight the Nazis. Running time: 149 min.
14. GREEN MANSIONS (1959). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Produced by Edmund Grainger. Directed by Mel Ferrer. Written by Dorothy Kingsley, from the novel by William Henry Hudson. Photographed by Joseph Ruttenberg. Music by Hector Villa-Lobos and Bronislau Kaper. Edited by Ferris Webster. Art Direction by William A. Horning and Preston Ames. Costumes by Dorothy Jeakins. Choreography by Katharine Dunham. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Rima), Anthony Perkins (Abel), Lee J. Cobb (Nuflo), Sessue Hayakawa (Runi), Henry Silva (Kua-Ko), Nehemiah Persoff (Don Panta), Michael Pate (Priest), Estelle Hemsley (Cla-Cla).A political fugitive in Venezuela meets Rima the Bird Girl, mysterious beauty of the jungle, whom he views as the ideal of innocence but whom the superstitious natives believe to be evil and set out to kill. Running time: 104 min.
15. THE UNFORGIVEN (1960). Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions, United Artists. Produced by James Hill. Directed by John Huston. Written by Ben Maddow, from the novel by Alan LeMay. Photographed by Franz F. Planer. Music Direction by Dimitri Tiomkin. Edited by Russell Lloyd. Art Direction by Stephen Grimes. With Burt Lancaster (Ben Zachary), AUDREY HEPBURN (Rachel Zachary), Audie Murphy (Cash Zachary), John Saxon (Johnny Portugal), Charles Bickford (Zeb Rollins), Lillian Gish (Mattilda Zachary), Albert Salmi (Charlie Rawlins), Joseph Wiseman (Abe Kelsey), June Walker (Hagar Rawlins), Kipp Hamilton (Georgia Rawlins), Doug McClure (Andy Zachary).An orphan is caught between the prejudices of the white family that adopted her and a bloody Kiowa uprising. Running time: 120 min.
16. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961). Paramount. Produced by Martin Jurow and Richard Shepherd. Directed by Blake Edwards. Written by George Axelrod, from the novel by Truman Capote. Photographed by Franz F. Planer. Music by Henry Mancini. Edited by Howard Smith. Costumes by Edith Head. Music and lyrics of “Moon River” by Mancini and Johnny Mercer. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Holly Golightly), George Peppard (Paul Varjak), Patricia Neal (“2E”), Buddy Ebsen (Doc Golightly), Martin Balsam (O.J. Berman), Mickey Rooney (Mr. Yunioshi), José-Luis De Villallonga (José), John McGiver (Tiffany Salesman), Dorothy Whitney (Mag Wildwood), Stanley Adams (Rusty Trawler), Elvia Allman (Librarian), Alan Reed Sr. (Sally Tomato), Claude Stroud (Sid Arbuck).Holly Golightly, a New York Bohemian girl for hire, falls in love with a budding novelist. Running time: 114 min.
17. THE CHILDREN’S HOUR (1961). United Artists. Produced and directed by William Wyler. Written by John Michael Hayes, from the play by Lillian Hellman. Photographed by Franz Planer. Music by Alex North. Edited by Robert Swink. Art Direction by Fernando Carrere. Costumes by Dorothy Jeakins. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Karen Wright), Shirley MacLaine (Martha Dobie), James Garner (Dr. Joe Cardin), Miriam Hopkins (Mrs. Lily Mortar), Fay Bainter (Mrs. Amelia Tilford), Karen Balkin (Mary Tilford), Veronica Cartwright (Rosalie).A vicious student accuses the two owners of her girls’ school of lesbianism, with tragic results. Running time: 107 min.
18. CHARADE (1963). Universal. Produced and directed by Stanley Donen. Written by Peter Stone, from the story The Unsuspecting Wife by Stone and Marc Behm. Photographed by Charles Lang Jr. Music by Henry Mancini. Edited by James Clark. Art Direction by Jean d’Eaubonne. Costumes by Hubert de Givenchy. Music and lyrics by Mancini and Johnny Mercer. With Cary Grant (Peter Joshua), AUDREY HEPBURN (Regina Lambert), Walter Matthau (Hamilton Bartholomew), James Coburn (Tex), George Kennedy (Scobie), Ned Glass (Gideon), Jacques Marin (Grandpierre), Paul Bonifas (Felix), Dominique Minot (Sylvie). A stylish widow is hounded by a quartet of unsavory characters—plus savory Cary Grant—all of them in pursuit of her late husband’s hidden fortune. Running time: 113 min.
19. PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES (1964). Paramount. Produced by Richard Quine and George Axelrod. Directed by Quine. Written by Axelrod, from the story by Julien Duvivier and Henri Jeanson. Photographed by Charles Lang, Jr. Music by Nelson Riddle. Edited by Archie Marshek. Art Direction by Jean d’Eaubonne. Costumes by Hubert de Givenchy and Christian Dior. With William Holden (Richard Benson), AUDREY HEPBURN (Gabrielle Simpson), Gregoire Asin (Police Inspector), Raymond Bussieres (Gangster), Noel Coward, Tony Curtis, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Ferrer (Themselves!).Long-in-the-tooth American in Paris bounces bad literary fantasies off primarily prim, periodically provocative typist in wild, wacky effort to produce wild, wacky screenplay within forty-eight hours. Running time: 110 min.
20. MY FAIR LADY (1964). Warner Brothers. Produced by Jack L. Warner. Directed by George Cukor. Written by Alan Jay Lerner, from the musical play by Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Photographed by Harry Stradling. Music by Loewe. Edited by William Ziegler. Production Design by Cecil Beaton. Musical Direction by André Previn. Art Direction by Gene Allen. Costumes by Beaton. Choreography by Hermes Pan. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Eliza Doolittle), Rex Harrison (Henry Higgins), Stanley Holloway (Alfred P. Doolittle), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Colonel Hugh Pickering), Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Higgins), Jeremy Brett (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), Theodore Bikel (Zoltan Karpathy), Henry Daniell (Prince Gregor of Transylvania), Isobel Elsom (Mrs. Eynsford-Hill), Mona Washbourne (Mrs. Pearce), John Alderson (Jamie), John McLiam (Harry), Marni Nixon (singing voice of Audrey Hepburn), Bill Shirley (singing voice of Jeremy Brett), Grady Sutton, Allison Daniell, Betty Blythe (Ascot/Ball Guests).Eliza Doolittle, that lovable Cockney guttersnipe, is transformed into a lady by phonetics professor Henry Higgins, that lovable mysogynist. Running time: 170 min.
21. HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966). 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Fred Kohlmar. Directed by William Wyler. Written by Harry Kurnitz, from the story Venus Rising by George Bradshaw. Photography by Charles Lang. Music by Johnny Williams. Edited by Robert Swink. Production Design by Alexander Trauner. Costumes by Hubert de Givenchy. Makeup by Alberto de Rossi. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Nicole Bonnet), Peter O’Toole (Simon Dermott), Eli Wallach (David Leland), Hugh Griffith (Charles Bonnet), Charles Boyer (De Solnay), Fernand Gravey (Grammont), Marcel Dalio (Señor Paravideo), Jacques Marin (Chief Guard), Francois Moustache (Guard), Bert Bertram (Marcel).An art forger’s daughter and a private eye set out to steal her father’s fake Cellini sculpture before it is discovered by insurance appraisers. Running time: 127 min.
22. TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967). 20th Century-Fox. Produced and directed by Stanley Donen. Written by Frederic Raphael. Photographed by Christopher Challis. Music by Henry Mancini. Edited by Richard Marden and Madeleine Gug. Art Direction by Willy Holt and Marc Frederic. Set decoration by Roger Volper. Costumes by Hardy Amies, Ken Scott, Michele Posier, Paco Rabanne, Mary Quant, Foale and Tuffin. Makeup by Alberto de Rossi. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Joanna Wallace), Albert Finney (Mark Wallace), Eleanor Bron (Cathy Manchester), William Daniels (Howard Manchester), Gabrielle Middelton (Ruth Manchester), Claude Dauphin (Maurice Dalbret), Nadia Gray (Francoise Dalbret), Georges Descrieres (David), Jacqueline Bisset (bit), Irene Hilda (Yvonne de Florac), Kathy Chelimsky (Caroline).A couple in the south of Fra
nce spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled twelve-year marriage—doing so in non-sequential segments. Running time: 112 min.
23. WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967). Warner Brothers. Produced by Mel Ferrer. Executive Producer, Walter MacEwen. Directed by Terence Young. Written by Robert Carrington and Jane Howard-Carrington, based on the play by Frederick Knott. Photographed by Charles Lang. Music by Henry Mancini. Edited by Gene Milford. Art Direction by George Jenkins. Set decoration by George James Hopkins. Music and lyrics by Mancini, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, sung by Bobby Darin. Makeup by Gordon Bau. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Susy Hendrix), Alan Arkin (Roat), Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (Sam Hendrix), Richard Crenna (Mike Talman), Jack Weston (Carlino), Samantha Jones (Lisa), Julie Herrod (Gloria), Frank O’Brien (Shatner), Gary Morgan (The Boy).A blind woman is terrorized by criminals seeking a heroin-filled doll that was given to her husband. Running time: 107 min.
24. ROBIN AND MARIAN (1976). Great Britain. Columbia. Produced by Denis O’Dell. Directed by Richard Lester. Written by James Goldman. Photographed by David Watkin. Music by John Barry. Edited by John Victor Smith. Production Design by Michael Stringer. Art Direction by Gil Parrando. Costumes by Yvonne Blake. With Sean Connery (Robin Hood), AUDREY HEPBURN (Maid Marian), Robert Shaw (Sheriff of Nottingham), Richard Harris (King Richard), Nicol Williamson (Little John), Denholm Elliott (Will Scarlett), Kenneth Haigh (Sir Ranulf), Ronnie Barker (Friar Tuck), Ian Holm (King John), Bill Maynard (Mercadier), Veronica Quilligan (Sister Mary), Victoria Merida Roja (Queen Isabella).Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time. Running time: 112 min.
25. BLOODLINE (1979). Paramount. Produced by David V. Picker and Sidney Beckerman. Directed by Terence Young. Written by Laird Koenig, from the novel by Sidney Sheldon. Photographed by Freddie Young. Music by Ennio Morricone. Edited by Bud Molin. Production Design by Ted Haworth. Costumes by Enrico Sabbatini. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Elizabeth Roffe), Ben Gazzara (Rhys Williams), James Mason (Sir Alec Nichols), Claudia Mori (Donatella), Irene Papas (Simonetta Palazzi), Michelle Phillips (Vivian Nichols), Maurice Ronet (Maurice), Romy Schneider (Helene Martin), Omar Sharif (Ivo Palazzi), Gert Frobe (Inspector Max Hornung), Beatrice Straight (Kate Ehrling).Snuff films and skullduggery in the pharmaceutical industry—a rare and insane combination—ensnare a fragile paleontologist in Givenchy designs. Running time: 116 min.
26. THEY ALL LAUGHED (1981). Time-Life Films/20th Century-Fox. Produced by George Morfogen and Blaine Novak. Directed and written by Peter Bogdanovich. Photographed by Robby Muller. Music by Douglas Dilge. Edited by Scott Vickrey. Art Direction by Kert Lundell. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Angela Niotes), Ben Gazzara (John Russo), John Ritter (Charles Rutledge), Colleen Camp (Christy Miller), Patti Hansen (Sam the Taxi Driver), Dorothy Stratten (Dolores Martin), George Morfogen (Mr. Leondopoulos), Blaine Novak (Arthur Brodsky), Sean Ferrer (José), Linda MacEwen (Amy Lester), Glenn Scarpelli (Michael Niotes), Vassily Lam-brinos (Stavros Niotes), Antonia Bogdanovich (Stefania Russo), Alexandra Bogdanovich (Georgina Russo), Sheila Stodden (Barbara Jo), Lisa Dunsheath (Tulips), Joyce Hyser (Sylvia).Four New York private detectives—each quirkier and hornier than the other—fall in love with the women they’re assigned to follow. Running time: 115 min.
27. ALWAYS (1990). Universal-United Artists. Produced by Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy. Directed by Spielberg. Written by Jerry Belson, from the screenplay A Guy Named Joe by Dalton Trumbo; story by Frederick Hazlitt Bren-nan, Chandler Sprague and David Boehm. Photographed by Mikael Salomon. Edited by Michael Kahn. Music by John Williams. Production Design by James Bissell. Art Direction by Chris Burian-Mohr. Costumes by Ellen Mirojnick. Choreography by Bob Banas. With Richard Dreyfuss (Peter Sandich), Holly Hunter (Dorinda Durston), Brad Johnson (Ted Baker), John Goodman (Al Yackey), AUDREY HEPBURN (Hap), Roberts Blossom (Dave), Keith David (Powerhouse), Ed Van Nuys (Nails), Marg Helgenberger (Rachel), Dale Dye (Fire Boss), Brian Haley (Alex), James Lashly (Charlie), Michael Steve Jones (Grey).A fire-fighting pilot saves his best friend’s life but loses his own, subsequently watching over the woman he loves from beyond. Running time: 121 min.
TELEVISION
1. “Rainy Day in Paradise Junction,” an episode of the TV Workshop series. (CBS, April 13, 1952)
2. “Mayerling,” Producers’ Showcase special. Produced by Fred Coe. Directed by Anatole Litvak. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Maria Vetsera), Mel Ferrer (Prince Rudolph), Raymond Massey (Emperor), Diana Wynyard (Empress). The heir to the Hapsburg empire enters into a suicide pact with his mistress. (NBC, February 4, 1957)
3. A World of Love, UNICEF documentary special. Produced by Alexander Cohen. Cohosted by Bill Cosby, Shirley MacLaine, AUDREY HEPBURN, Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand and Harry Belafonte. (Christmas 1971)
4. “Love Among Thieves,” ABC-TV movie. Produced by Robert A. Pazazian. Directed by Roger Young. Written by Stephen Black, Harry Stern and Sally Robinson. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Caroline DuLac), Robert Wagner (Mike Chambers), Jerry Orbach (Interpol Agent), Samantha Eggar (Solange), Ismael Carlo (Mazo).An elegant baroness, who also happens to be a concert pianist, steals a priceless Fabergé egg to ransom her abducted fiancé and ends up in the wilds of South America with a wisecracking Yankee adventurer. (February 23, 1987)
5. Gardens of the World, Parts I-VI, PBS. Perennial Productions, Inc. Produced by Janis Blackschleger. Directed by Bruce Fanchini. Written by Glenn Berenbeim. Photographed by Jeri Sopanen. Hosted by AUDREY HEPBURN. Narrated by Michael York. (January 1993)5a. Gardens of the World, Parts VII-VIII, PBS. Tropical and Japanese gardens. (June 1996)
STAGE
1. High Button Shoes. The Hippodrome, London. Opened December 22, 1948, for a 291-performance run. Produced by Archie Thomson. Directed by Jack Hylton. Music by Jule Styne. Choreography by Jerome Robbins. With Lou Parker, Alma Cogan, Kay Kendall, Nickolas Dana, AUDREY HEPBURN.
2. Sauce Tartare. Cambridge Theatre, London. Opened May 18, 1949. Produced and directed by Cecil Landeau. With Renee Houston, Jack Melford, Alma Cogan, Joan Heal, AUDREY HEPBURN.
3. Sauce Piquante. Cambridge Theatre, London. Opened April 27, 1950. Produced and directed by Cecil Landeau. With Norman Wisdom, Muriel Smith, Douglas Byng, Moira Lister, Bob Monkhouse, David Hurst, Joan Heal, Marcel le Bon, AUDREY HEPBURN, Aud Johanssen.
4. Gigi. Fulton Theatre, New York. Opened November 24, 1951. Produced by Gilbert Miller. Directed by Raymond Rouleau. Written by Anita Loos, adapted from Colette’s novel. Settings by Raymond Sovey. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Gigi), Josephine Brown (Mme. Alvarez), Cathleen Nesbitt (Alicia de St. Ephlam), Doris Patston (Mother), Michael Evans (Gaston), Francis Compton (Victor), Bertha Belmore (Sidonie). Closed May 31, 1952. Hepburn also did the road-show tour, which began October 13, 1952, in Pittsburgh and continued through Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Washington and Los Angeles, closing May 16, 1953, in San Francisco.
5. Ondine. 46th Street Theatre, New York. Opened February 18, 1954. Produced by The Playwrights Company. Directed by Alfred Lunt. Written by Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Maurice Valency. Settings by Peter Larkin. Costumes by Richard Whorf. Lighting by Jean Rosenthal. Music by Virgil Thompson. With AUDREY HEPBURN (Ondine), Mel Ferrer (Ritter Hans), John Alexander (Auguste), Edith King (Eugenie), Alan Hewitt (Lord Chamberlain), Marian Seldes (Bertha), Robert Middleton (The Old One). Closed June 26, 1954.
SOURCE NOTES
CHAPTER 1
1 John Maynard, “Audrey’s Harvest of the Heart,” Photoplay, September 1956,p.115.
2 Cecil Beaton, “Audrey Hepburn,” Vogue, November 1, 1954.
3 Caroline Latham, Audrey Hepburn (London and New York: Proteus Publishing, 1984), pp. 6-8.
4 James Robert Parish and Don E. Stanke, The Glamour Girls (New Rochelle: Arlington House Press, 1975), p. 319, and introduction by Rene Jordan, pp. 16-17.
5 Frank Thompson, American Film, May 1990,p.55.
6 Joseph J. O‘Donohue IV letter to BP, February 26, 1996.
7 Quoted in �
��Audrey Hepburn—Angel of Love,” undated Dutch article, translated by Sandra Homner.
8 Alan Riding, New York Times Paris bureau, interview with AH, April 12, 1991.
9 Quoted in Audrey Hepburn Remembered, video documentary, Wombat Productions (1993), Gene Feldman producer.
10 Quoted in Ian Woodward, Audrey Hepburn (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984), pp. 9 and 19.
11 Robert Wolders, in outtakes of Audrey Hepburn Remembered, video documentary, Wombat Productions, 1993, Gene Feldman producer.
12 Quoted in Warren Harris, Audrey Hepburn (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 16.
13 Wolders, op. cit.
14 Martin Abramson, “Audrey Hepburn,” Cosmopolitan, October 1955, p. 30.
15 Riding, op. cit.
16 De Gelderlander article, December 24, 1993.
