Audrey Kathleen Hepburn was a very influential lady of the 1950’s and 60’s. She starred in many films‚ and supported charities that helped children. She was born and raised in Ixelles‚ Belgium. Her childhood was as expected‚ full of fun and laughter‚ until WW2 broke out. She was right in the middle of a war zone. Her father was a Nazi sympathizer. Which caused feuds between her mother and father. At the young age of six‚ her parents divorced. This was very traumatic for a young Audrey. It was
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English III 26 April 2013 The Life of Audrey Hepburn Thesis: Although Audrey Hepburn went through her parents divorcing‚ then being sent boarding school at the age of 5‚ living through WWI‚ she still managed to dance‚ which led her into her acting career; she starred in a plethora of well-known films‚ yet in her last 25 years she still wanted to give back and be a part of UNICEF to help those unfortunate in Africa and Latin America. I. Audrey Hepburn’s childhood had a lot to do with
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Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4‚ 1929 in Brussels‚ Belgium. She really was blue-blood from the beginning with her father‚ a wealthy English banker‚ and her mother‚ a Dutch baroness. After her parents divorced‚ Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a private girls school. Later‚ when her mother moved back to the Netherlands‚ she attended private schools as well. While vacationing with her mother in Arnhem‚ Holland‚ Hitler’s army took over the town. It was here that she fell on hard
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A Life Worth Knowing: Audrey Hepburn In 1950-1960s Hollywood‚ the name Audrey Hepburn was synonymous with style and movie success. During the Golden Age of Hollywood‚ Hepburn was the leading actress in over twenty films‚ including Breakfast at Tiffany’s‚ and Roman Holiday. After the end of her acting career‚ Audrey Hepburn’s name became synonymous with goodwill. In addition to being a world-famous actress and Academy Award winner‚ Audrey Hepburn was a UNICEF ambassador who worked tirelessly both
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Little Audrey As life beats us down‚ we’re always wishing for something more. In the novel “Little Audrey” you learn about the difficult childhood of Audrey White‚ and how she had always wished for greater things to come to her and her family. Audrey is a young girl‚ who has to endure several tough encounters involving bullies‚ siblings‚ health issues‚ family problems‚ being poor‚ and even death. We get a glimpse of all of these topics and more in this beautiful‚ tear jerking story. My favorite aspect
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The recent death of actress Katharine Hepburn at age 96 has engendered any number of eulogies of this media favorite whose career ran six decades. She is being praised both as a strong moral person and as a vibrant indomitable rebel who was an eminent role model for women. To set the record straight for the unknowing or the naive‚ let me say that both of these renderings are completely false. 2) It is bad enough to see the secular media depicting Hepburn as a high-principled woman of morals‚
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Marilyn Monroe Page 04 Biography Audrey Hepburn Page 05 Blonde VS Brunette Page 06 Audrey and Marilyn in present day Page 07 Conclusion Page 09 Bibliography Page 10 Filmography Page 11 Component B‚ Element 2 Research case study‚ Star Studies: Marilyn Monroe & Audrey Hepburn “The bombshell VS The Classy Lady” Two legendary icons who’s legacy will endure long after their deaths. Both Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe went into history as
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Katharine Hepburn Graceful‚ charming‚ hilarious‚ self-confident‚ hard-working‚ determined‚ outrageous Katharine Hepburn has been gathering adjectives for years‚ adding them to her image with carelessness and calculation. In an era of changing roles for women‚ Katharine Hepburn was able to use her influence on the American film to stand out as an early role model of the modern American woman. She had the essence of the successful adventuress: no mater the challenge‚ she survived in tact with
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Long considered one of the innovators of photorealism‚ Audrey Flack emerged on the scene in the late 1960s with paintings that embraced magazine reproductions of movie stars along with Matza cracker boxes and other mundane objects‚ that referred ironically to Pop Art. As one of the first of these artists to enter the collections of The Museum of Modern Art‚ Flack later came to excel in vanitas paintings that combined painted renderings of black and white photographs along with detailed arrangements
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Audrey Beardsley The illustrator Audrey Beardsley was representative of Art Nouveau in England‚ and as such is partially responsible for it’s failure. “Art Nouveau was closely associated with Aestheticism and literary Decadence” (Greenhalgh‚ 2000b‚ 145) and Beardsley’s evocative imagery furthered the sensation of “active immorality” (Greenhalgh‚ 2000b‚ 145). J’ai baise ta bouche Iokanaan (figure 9)‚ an illustration for Oscar Wilde’s Salome‚ depicts the morbid yet beautiful image of Salome kissing
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