Audrey: Her Real Story

by Alexander Walker

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The definitive guide to a Hollywood legend. Few stars are as loved as Audrey Hepburn, today as much as ever. Beautiful, delicate, graceful - but always warm and natural - she stole our hearts. She was also brave, working tirelessly for UNICEF in the face of her own failing health. in this moving and heartwarming biography Alexander Walker traces the extraordinary combination of luck and talent that allowed a fragile little girl,who nearly died in Hitler's occupied Europe, to conquer, in just show more one year, the New York stage and the Hollywood screen. Walker analyses her ascent to power and world fame and reveals the sadness of her life: two failed marriages, a broken engagement, and the crushing disappointment that occupied her triumph in My Fair Lady. Most importantly of all, this biography reveals what no one has known until now: the truly terrifying family secret that tore Audrey's childhood apart and kept her forever silent about her parents. show less

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This book purports to tell the story of Audrey Hepburn from wartorn Europe to University ambassador via her films.

As such it does a good job and I enjoyed the telling. At times she does come across as someone who got her own way and could be difficult to work with but this was often glossed over and I feel could have been gone into in more depth. I would have liked more about her early life rather than what felt at times like an endless cycle of who she was filming with.

A great book for any fan
You can't really go wrong with Alexander Walker - a fount of all knowledge with fils, his biographies of film stars have always been excellent. This came across as well-researched, and was an entertaining read (if you like celebrity/film star biographies!).

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Alexander Walker is the author of over twenty books. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Audrey Hepburn

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Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
791.43028092Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsMovies, TV, VideoMotion pictures, radio, television, podcastingMotion picturesStandard subdivisionsActing and performanceStandard subdivisionsHistory, geographic treatment, biographyBiography
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PN2287 .H43 .W36Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)DramaDramatic representation. The theaterSpecial regions or countries
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