Audrey Trivia
Was first choice for the lead in Taste of Honey, A (1961).
Ranked #50 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October
1997]
Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People
in the world. [1990]
After Wait Until Dark (1967) was offered the leads in 40 Carats (1973), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and Turning Point, The (1977) but decided to stay in retirement and raise her sons.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in
film history (#8). [1995]
Turned down the film Gigi (1958) after creating the character in the Broadway non musical play.
Everyone remembers when Marilyn Monroe serenaded President John F. Kennedy on his birthday in 1962. What is often forgotten is that Audrey Hepburn sang "Happy
Birthday Mr. President" to JFK for his final birthday in 1963.
Had a breed of tulip named after her in 1990.
Died on January 20, 1993, the 67th birthday of Patricia Neal. They starred together in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
She won the 1953 Best Actress Academy Award for Roman Holiday (1953). On March 25th, 1954, she accepted the award from the much revered Academy president
Jean Hersholt. After accepting the award, Audrey kissed him smack on the mouth, instead of the
cheek, in her excitement. Minutes after accepting her 1953 Oscar, Audrey realized that she'd misplaced it. Turning quickly
on the steps of the Center Theater in New York, she raced back to the ladies' room, retrieved the award,
and was ready to pose for photographs.
Was fluent in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, and
Flemish.
Was briefly considered for the main role in Cleopatra (1963) but the part went to Elizabeth Taylor
She confessed to eating tulip bulbs and tried to bake grass
into bread during the hard days of World War II.
Audrey felt that she was miscast as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) although it was one of her most popular roles.
Fell in love with William Holden, her co-star in Sabrina (1954) but broke off the relationship on learning that Holden could not have children.
Broke her back during filming of a horse-riding scene in Unforgiven, The (1960)
Henry Mancini said of her: "'Moon
River' was written for her. No one else had ever understood it so completely.
There have been more than a thousand versions of 'Moon River', but hers is unquestionably the greatest".
Turned down a role in the film Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959/I) because, as a young girl in Holland during the war, she had witnessed Nazi soldiers
publicly executing people in the streets and herding Jews onto railroad cars to be sent to the death camps. She said that
participating in the film would bring back too many painful memories for her.
Like Humphrey Bogart, Hepburn also starred in five of the movies listed by American Film Institute in its
Top 100 U.S. love stories (2002). They are Roman Holiday (1953), ranked #4 on the list, Sabrina (1954) ranked #54, which co-starred Bogart, My Fair Lady (1964) ranked #12, Two for the Road (1967) at #57 and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) #61.
During World War II, 16-year-old Audrey was a volunteer nurse in
a Dutch hospital. During the battle of Arnhem, Hepburn's hospital
received many wounded Allied soldiers. One of the injured soldiers young Audrey helped nurse back to health was a young British
paratrooper - and future director - named Terence Young. More than 20 years later, Young directed Hepburn in Wait Until Dark (1967).
Measurements: 34A-20-34 (as recorded in 1953), (Source: Celebrity
Sleuth magazine)
In 1954, she was presented with her Best Actress Oscar for Roman Holiday (1953) by Jean Hersholt. In 1993, she was posthumously awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
In Arnhem, Holland, during the Second World War, she worked with the Dutch Underground, giving ballet
performances to collect donations for the anti-Nazi effort.
Told People Magazine that she was very self-conscious about
her size-10 feet.
She was voted the 21st Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment
Weekly.
