Why Audrey Hepburn Won Best Actress for Roman Holiday | 1954

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• AK

  @AKoooooooo · 6 years ago

  fun fact: Audrey Hepburn was personally asked by Otto Frank to play his late daughter, Anne Frank, in the 1959 film adaptation of the play "The Diary of Anne Frank" as he felt she not only physically resembled his daughter, but that Anne herself would have been overjoyed by the idea of someone like Ms Hepburn portraying her, had she survived the war. She very politely and sensitively turned it down as she felt she was a) too old & b) was not comfortable reliving that chapter of her own life out on screen.

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• SE

  @sergiovela7686 · 6 years ago

  "I wanted to be a dancer, I became an actress because I had to make a living" OMG her power, her iconicness

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• AL

  @alejandraacosta3739 · 6 years ago (edited)

  The director: And what about the Germans? What did they do about it?<br>Audrey: [gleefully mischievous] They didn&apos;t know about it

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• JA

  @jamesa.romano8500 · 6 years ago

  Fun fact: Audrey&apos;s dress in Roman Holiday was the inspiration for the design of Princess Aurora’s/Briar Rose’s peasant outfit in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty.

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• RE

  @renatateofilo9887 · 6 years ago

  I think Audrey is still an icon because of her authenticity. She was an authentic person, real, not a shallow celebrity. And plus she was an angel in this earth.

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• EV

  @evenmoreeden · 6 years ago

  Remember dance, learn a new language, feed the hungry to beat up Nazis so you can make Audrey Hepburn proud.

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• CI

  @CinnamonGrrlErin1 · 6 years ago

  She&apos;s charming in a way that few people are, I think.

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• EV

  @evenmoreeden · 6 years ago

  Be Kind Rewind is the only thing keeping me through 2020.

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• DE

  @deanneb6925 · 6 years ago

  I’ve long bemoaned the vapid interpretation of Audrey’s star persona, and I think it’s critiqued best in Gossip Girl - not the TV show but the original book series. Blaire Waldorf worships this polished, surface level image of Audrey as the ideal woman. Beautiful, elegant and untouchable. Blaire fails to realize that, in her emulation of Faux Audrey, she really couldn’t be farther from the real thing. She’s born into extreme privilege, she is selfish and vain, and only seeks to participate in humanitarian work so far as it serves her image and ego. I distinctly remember a daydream sequence in one of the books where Blaire fantasizes about throwing Godiva chocolates to starving African children as they kneel at her feet and yell in appreciation and adoration. <br><br>That being said, hopefully over time people can come to appreciate Audrey for the beautiful soul that she was, and be inspired by all the good she did.

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• DA

  @davidprado545 · 4 years ago

  When Audrey Hepburn walks to the stage to receive her Oscar and turns the wrong way ... even that is so charming it made me melt

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• MA

  @maurinet2291 · 6 years ago

  I disagree that she&apos;s not relatable though. There&apos;s a contradiction between the natural way she acts and her appearance that lets us in. No matter who we are. She&apos;s beauty that we aspire to, but that doesn&apos;t seem to answer her problems. She eats her pastry longingly in front of a window in a way that&apos;s very down-to-earth and familiar. Most admired actors/actresses you couldn&apos;t imagine what you&apos;d say to them if you met them on a street somewhere. Audrey, you&apos;re sure, you would have been able to talk about anything with, and she&apos;d never make you small or unimportant.

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• KE

  @Kevin-rg3yc · 6 years ago

  I still to this day believe Audrey should’ve won her second Oscar for wait until dark but I love her in Roman holiday it’s one of my favorite Audrey Hepburn movies. Audrey Hepburn legacy reminds me a lot of Marilyn Monroe legacy which is everyone focus heavily on the image and personal lives but forget what made them popular in their time: THEIR ACTING. Both were talented actresses of their era

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