ISBN: 9781442099234

The details of Audrey Hepburn's life have been related so often we have committed them to memory: her deprived childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland; her dancing career, Broadway debut, and … Mehr…

The details of Audrey Hepburn's life have been related so often we have committed them to memory: her deprived childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland; her dancing career, Broadway debut, and meteoric rise in films; her failed marriages and the discovery late in life of her true love; her years as ambassador for UNICEF; and her death from cancer in 1993. What then can another biography offer? In the case of Barry Paris's lovingly researched life of Hepburn, the answer is insight. Based on The details of Audrey Hepburn's life have been related so often we have committed them to memory: her deprived childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland; her dancing career, Broadway debut, and meteoric rise in films; her failed marriages and the discovery late in life of her true love; her years as ambassador for UNICEF; and her death from cancer in 1993. What then can another biography offer? In the case of Barry Paris's lovingly researched life of Hepburn, the answer is insight. Based on extensive interviews with family and friends (many who have never spoken about her before), this book reveals through anecdotes and remembrances, conversations and delightfully gossipy tidbits, the desperately insecure, slightly vain, intensely private, fiercely loyal, and warmly generous woman behind the icon. Here is the tender heart and fragile soul of the most beautiful film actress of her era, captured but not canonized in a portrait for our time. B & W photos. Books, Biography & Autobiography~~Entertainment & Performing Arts, Audrey-Hepburn~~Barry-Paris, , , , , , , , , , Paw Prints<