July 6 - The Audrey Hepburn Story

Today’s movie is a biographical drama with a scene that happens on July 6. I hope you will watch this film tonight and enjoy it.

THE AUDREY HEPBURN STORY     

The film is a series of flashbacks by Audrey Hepburn while she is filming Breakfast at Tiffanys.  In 1935 Belgium, six year old Audrey has to deal with the break-up of her parent’s marriage. She goes to dance school in England, but moves to Holland when the war breaks out as her mother thinks it will be safer. This is a mistake, as the Nazis invade and occupy the country. Audrey acts as a courier for the Dutch Resistance and is very ill as the war ends. After the war her dream of becoming a prima ballerina comes to naught, but she gets a bit part a Jerome Robbins  musical review and has an affair with the show’s piano player. Audrey gets a one-line movie role and meets James Hanson, who becomes her fiancée. While filming the movie Monte Carlo Baby, Colette selects her to play Gigi on Broadway. She films Roman Holiday with Gregory Peck, but has problems in doing Gigi, as she’s not a professional actress. She breaks up with James. Audrey works with Givenchy to develop her signature style for the movie Sabrina.  She develops an attraction for her co-star, William Holden. On July 6, 1954 [1:34:13 to 1:36:14] she films a scene in Sabrina with Humphrey Bogart. Later Holden offers to divorce his wife and marry her, but she refuses when she learns he cannot have any more children. Audrey meets Mel Ferrer who persuades her to star in Ondine with him on Broadway.  She wins an Oscar and marries Mel. She films The Nun’s Story while pregnant.  In the hospital for exhaustion, an argument with her mother after discovering her mother had concealed letters to Audrey from her father causes a miscarriage. She goes to see her father and later does have a child. Mel persuades her to do a film called Breakfast at Tiffanys.

                      

A good biopic. I like it because it mainly sticks to the real facts about Hepburn’s life. Hewitt is very good as Audrey. However the film only tells the story of the first half of her life.

Date given in film at 1:35:41

Producers - Kay Hoffman, Steven Robman and Jennifer Love Hewitt

Director - Steven Robman

Screenplay - Marsha Norman

Runtime – 2 hours 55 minutes

Released - March 27, 2000

Starring -

Jennifer Love Hewitt as Audrey Hepburn

Frances Fisher as Baroness Ella Van Heemstra

Keir Dullea as Joseph Hepburn-Ruston

Gabriel Macht as William Holden

Peter Giles as James Hanson, Baron Hanson

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.