Audrey Hepburn (Pocket Essentials) - Softcover

Cheshire, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903047676 ISBN 13: 9781903047675

Publisher: Pocket Essentials, 2004

Synopsis

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This Pocket Essential looks at Audrey Hepburn's early life growing up in Holland during the war. Her early ambition for a career as a ballet dancer gave her the poise and dignity with which she was eponymous, and her 40-year working relationship with the designer Hubert Givenchy created the "Hepburn Look" which Hollywood film stars are still trying to emulate. As well as an introductory essay, this book has at its core Audrey the film star, and each of her films is reviewed and analyzed, including background information and trivia.

About this title

Synopsis:

Audrey Hepburn: an enduring screen legend and one of the most beautiful women in the world. Her photograph graced the covers of magazines across the world for half a century, yet in a movie career lasting forty-five years she made only twenty-six feature films, from blink-and-you'll-miss-them walk-ons in classic films (The Lavender Hill Mob) to enduring masterpieces (My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany's) that remain with the viewer long after they've left the cinema. But being a film legend wasn't enough. For twenty years she dedicated her life to working for UNICEF. The Pocket Essential Audrey Hepburn looks at Audrey's early life growing up in Holland during the war. her father was a nazi sympathiser and her mother of Dutch aristocracy and this brought about pressures and experiences that Audrey would carry with her throughout her life. Wartime starvation was responsible for her 'gamin' appearance. Her early ambition for a career as a ballet dancer gave her the poise and dignity with which she was eponymous and her forty-year working relationship with the designer Hubert Givenchy created the 'Hepburn Look' which Hollywood film stars are still trying to emulate.

As well as an introductory essay, the Pocket Essential Audrey Hepburn has at its core Audrey the film star and each of her films (and the re-makes) is reviewed and analysed, including background information and trivia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Essentials
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1903047676
• ISBN 13: 9781903047675
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96