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Audrey Hepburn

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by Barry Paris


  110 Higham, p. 61.

  111 Quoted in My Fair Lady restoration program, 1994; and Hubert de Givenchy to BP, May 15, 1995.

  112 Quoted in Harris, p. 104.

  113 Audrey Wilder to BP, Beverly Hills, January 30, 1995.

  114 Quoted in Parish, op. cit., p. 331.

  115 Ibid.

  116 Radie Harris, op. cit.

  117 Quoted at New York Film Critics Award, New York, host Ben Grauer, November 19, 1957.

  118 Pauline Swanson, “Knee-Deep in Stardust,” Photoplay, April, 1954, p. 103.

  119 Harris, op. cit., p. 108.

  120 Radie Harris, op. cit.

  121 Marian Seldes, The Bright Lights (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1979).

  122 Marian Seldes to BP, January 19, 1995.

  123 Quoted in Jared Brown, The Fabulous Lunts: A Biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (New York: Atheneum, 1986), p. 385.

  124 Ibid.

  125 Eric Bentley, “Giraudoux & Others,” New Republic, March 8, 1954, p. 21.

  126 “First Nights,” Newsweek, March 1, 1954, p. 71.

  127 Radie Harris, op. cit.

  128 Quoted in Brown, op. cit., p. 385.

  129 Eva Gabor to BP, Los Angeles, December 12, 1994.

  130 Gibbs, op. cit., pp. 74-75.

  131 Quoted in Brown, op. cit., p. 385.

  132 Richard Hayes, The Commonweal, April 2, 1954, p. 650.

  133 Henry Hewes, “Nymph Mania,” Saturday Review, March 13, 1954, pp. 26-27.

  134 Harold Clurman, The Nation, March 6, 1954, p. 206.

  135 Celeste Holm to John Barba, February 1, 1995.

  136 Quoted in Fields, op. cit.

  137 Abramson, op. cit.

  138 Harris, op. cit., p. 114.

  139 Unidentified newspaper clipping, April 3, 1954, New York (Billy Rose Collection).

  140 Frank Quinn and Fred Zepp, op. cit.

  141 Philip Wuntch, “Audrey Hepburn Reminisces,” Dallas Morning News, March 2, 1991.

  142 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 5.

  143 Unidentified newspaper clipping, April 3, 1954 (Billy Rose Collection).

  144 Quoted in Mary Worthington Jones, “My Husband Doesn’t Run Me,” Photoplay, April, 1956, p. 105.

  145 Carl Clement, “Look Where You’re Going, Audrey,” Photoplay, June 1957, p. 84.

  146 Abramson, op. cit.

  CHAPTER 4

  1 Radie Harris, “Audrey Hepburn—The girl, the gamin and the star,” Photoplay, March 1955, p. 100.

  2 Quoted by Billy Wilder to BP, January 30, 1995.

  3 “Audrey Hepburn,” Movie & TV Album, July 1957, p. 31.

  4 Eleanor Harris, “Audrey Hepburn,” Good Housekeeping, August 1959, p. 117.

  5 Caroline Latham, Audrey Hepburn (London and New York: Proteus Publishing, 1984), p. 114.

  6 AH press release, The Playwrights Company, December 29, 1953: William Fields, Press Representative, New York.

  7 Quoted in Eleanor Harris, op. cit.

  8 “Audrey Hepburn,” Movie & T.V. Album, op. cit.

  9 Earl Wilson, “Is Hollywood shifting its accent on sex?”, Silver Screen, July 1954, p. 40.

  10 Cynthia Lowry, “Audrey Hepburn Seems to Be Sensation of Decade,” Louisville Courier journal, March 21, 1954.

  11 Nicholas Drake, ed., The Fifties in VOGUE (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1987).

  12 Pauline Swanson, “Knee-Deep in Stardust,” Photoplay, April 1954, p. 103.

  13 Mel Ferrer to BP, February 24, 1995.

  14 Quoted in Ian Woodward, Audrey Hepburn (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984), p. 131.

  15 Quoted in Bert McCord, “AH Is Sought by Helen Hayes for ‘Mary’” New York Herald Tribune, August 17, 1954, p. 31.

  16 AH to Tex McCurdy, “Cover Story” radio interview, January 10, 1954.

  17 Mel Ferrer to BP, op. cit.

  18 Billy Wilder to BP, op. cit.

  19 Bosley Crowther, New York Times, September 23, 1954, p. 43.

  20 Frank Thompson, American Film, May 1990, p. 55.

  21 Quoted in Latham, op. cit., p. 37.

  22 Clayton Cole, Films & Filming, October 1954, p. 20.

  23 Mel Ferrer to BP, op. cit.

  24 Ibid.

  25 Ibid.

  26 Ibid.

  27 Newsweek, July 30, 1956, pp. 53-56.

  28 Quoted in Warren Harris, Audrey Hepburn (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 129.

  29 Newsweek, op. cit.

  30 Newsweek, ibid.; and Parish, op. cit., p. 333.

  31 Quoted in Latham, p. 43.

  32 Fred Zinnemann, Fred Zinnemann: An Autobiography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992), p. 154.

  33 Quoted in Newsweek, op. cit.

  34 Jeremy Brett to Maria Ciaccia, December 20, 1994.

  35 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 142.

  36 AH video interview with Bill Collins, Australia, 1989.

  37 Quoted in Harris, op. cit., p. 132.

  38 Quoted in Mary Worthington Jones, “My Husband Doesn’t Run Me,” Photoplay, April 1956, p. 105.

  39 Nicholas Drake, ed., The Fifties in VOGUE (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1987), p. 97.

  40 Mel Ferrer to BP, op. cit.

  41 Quoted in Jones, op. cit.

  42 Carl Clement, “Look Where You’re Going, Audrey,” Photoplay, June 1957, p. 84.

  43 Quoted in Jones, op. cit.

  44 Ibid.

  45 Tony Curtis to BP, March 15, 1996.

  46 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 141.

  47 Theodore Bikel to John Barba, December 14, 1994.

  48 Quoted in Higham, op. cit., pp. 98-99.

  49 Unidentified clipping (Billy Rose Collection), April 1956.

  50 Quoted in Photoplay (1957).

  51 Leonard Gershe to BP, December 12, 1994.

  52 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 146.

  53 Quoted in Leonard Gershe’s Funny Face liner notes, July 1956.

  54 AH in Voice of America interview, c. mid-1956.

  55 Harris, Good Housekeeping, op. cit.

  56 Mel Ferrer to BP, op. cit.

  57 Quoted by William Hawkins, Dance Magazine, October 1956, p. 19.

  58 Quoted in Mark Nichols, “Audrey Hepburn Goes Back to the Bar [sic],” Coronet, November 1956.

  59 . Ibid.

  60 Leonard Gershe to BP, op. cit.

  61 AH introduction to Stephen Silverman’s biography of Stanley Donen, Dancing on the Ceiling (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), p. xiv.

  62 AH to Williams Banks, quoted to BP November 3, 1994.

  63 AH to Sarah Giles, quoted in Morley, op. cit., p. 81.

  64 Quoted in Latham, op. cit., p. 47.

  65 Quoted in Higham, op. cit., p. 106, and Harris, op. cit., p. 141.

  66 Leslie Caron to BP, December 8, 1993.

  67 Sheridan Morley, Audrey Hepburn (London: Pavilion Books, 1993), p. 79.

  68 Latham, op. cit., p. 48.

  69 Quoted in Harris, op. cir., p. 139.

  70 “Moanin’ for Donen,” Film, January /February 1961.

  71 Joseph Andrew Casper, Stanley Donen, Filmmakers, No. 5. (Metuchen N.J. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1983),p.96.

  72 Arthur Knight, “Choreography for Camera,” Dance, May 1957, pp. 14-21.

  73 Audrey Hepburn Remembered, Wombat Productions, 1993.

  74 Janet Maslin, “Audrey Hepburn’s Party,” The New York Times, April 21, 1991.

  75 André Previn to BP, Pittsburgh, January 12, 1995.

  76 “Audrey Hepburn,” by Frank Thompson, American Film, May 1990, p. 55.

  77 Quoted in Audrey Hepburn Remembered, Wombat Productions, 1993.

  78 Givenchy in My Fair Lady restoration program.

  79 Hubert de Givenchy in Audrey Hepburn Remembered, Wombat Productions, 1993.

  80 Ralph Lauren to BP, April 26, 1995.

  81 Leslie Caron, “Audrey, Darling,” Vogue (UK), April 1993, p. 183.

  82 “That Girl with the Eyes,” Inteview magazine, August 1990, p. 99.

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sp; 83 Elizabeth Wilson, Sight and Sound, March 1993.

  84 Leonard Gershe to BP, December 12, 1994.

  85 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 149.

  86 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 150.

  87 Quoted in Carl Clement, op. cit.

  88 Sophia Loren letter to John Barba, March 28, 1995.

  89 Sidney Skolsky, “Hollywood Is My Beat,” New York Post, August 26, 1956, p. M3. “Audrey’s Advice: Have Fun, Let Hubby Wear the Pants,” New York Journal-American, August 19, 1957, p. 6.

  90 Quoted in Martin Abramson, Cosmopolitan, October 1955, p. 30.

  91 Quoted in John Maynard, “Audrey’s Harvest of the Heart,” Photoplay, September 1956, p. 113.

  92 Glenn Plaskin, “Audrey Hepburn,” US Magazine, October 17, 1988, p. 44.

  93 Abramson, op. cit.

  94 Rowland Barber, “The Delightful Riddle of Audrey Hepburn,” Good Housekeeping, August 1962, p. 61.

  95 Quoted in Maynard, op. cit., p. 114.

  96 Ibid.

  97 Quoted in Carl Clement, op. cit..

  98 Audrey Wilder to BP, January 30, 1995.

  99 James Parish, The Glamour Girls (New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1975), p. 348.

  100 Quoted in Higham, p. 111.

  101 Charles Higham, Audrey (New York: Macmillan, 1984), p. 109.

  102 “Why Not Be in Paris?,” Newsweek, November 26, 1956.

  103 Frank Thompson, American Film, May 1990, p. 54.

  104 Parish, op. cit., p. 347.

  105 Quoted in William Pepper, “Audrey Keeps Park in a Stir,” World Telegram, August 16, 1957.

  106 Liza Wilson, “Audrey: the girl with the hop-skip-and-jump marriage,” The American Weekly, September 29, 1957, p. 12.

  107 Quoted by Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, December 3, 1989.

  108 Alan Riding, New York Times Paris bureau, April 12, 1991.

  109 Doris Brynner to John Barba, Geneva, December 13, 1993.

  110 Larry King: TNT Extra, October 18, 1991.

  111 “Scandal in Rehearsal,” Life, February 4, 1957, p. 56.

  112 Quoted in Harris, op. cit., p. 147.

  113 Quoted in Parish, op. cit., p. 347.

  114 Quoted in Latham, op. cit., p. 52.

  115 Morley, op. cit., p. 89.

  116 Peter Viertel to BP, April 17, 1996.

  117 Quoted in William Pepper, op. cit.

  118 Richard Corliss, “Serene Majesty,” Film Comment, Vol. 29, No. 2, 1993, p. 4.

  CHAPTER 5

  1 James Robert Parish and Don E. Stanke, The Glamour Girls (New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1975), p. 349.

  2 Fred Zinnemann, Fred Zinnemann: An Autobiography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992), p. 155.

  3 Mel Ferrer to BP, February 24, 1995.

  4 Quoted in Caroline Latham, Audrey Hepburn (London and New York: Proteus Publishing, 1984), p. 55.

  5 Zinnemann, op. cit., p. 157.

  6 Warren Harris, Audrey Hepburn (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 153.

  7 Patricia Bosworth to BP, March 17, 1996.

  8 Quoted in Ian Woodward, Audrey Hepburn (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984), pp. 164-165.

  9 Zinnemann, op. cit., p. 166.

  10 Ibid., p. 163.

  11 “Audrey Lives a Nun’s Life,” This Week magazine, April 6, 1958, pp. 36-37.

  12 Zinnemann, op. cit., pp. 166-167.

  13 Eleanor Harris, “Audrey Hepburn,” Good Housekeeping, August 1959, p. 119.

  14 Zinnemann, op. cit., p. 166.

  15 Quoted in Bob Thomas, “Hollywood: Jungle Girl ... Audrey Hepburn Goes from One Safari to Another,” Newark News, August 4, 1958.

  16 Zinnemann, op. cit., p. 167.

  17 Zinnemann, ibid., pp. 168-169.

  18 Zinnemann, ibid., p. 167.

  19 Ibid.

  20 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 165.

  21 Elaine Dundy, Finch, Bloody Finch (New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1980), p. 231.

  22 Dorothy Alison, quoted in Trader Faulkner’s Peter Finch: A Biography (London: Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1979), p. 205.

  23 Quoted in Eleanor Harris, Good Housekeeping, op. cit.

  24 Quoted in Bob Thomas, “Hollywood: Jungle Girl, op. cit.

  25 Eleanor Harris, Good Housekeeping, op. cit.

  26 Zinnemann, op. cit., p. 166.

  27 Ibid., p. 169.

  28 Rudy Fehr to John Barba, September 27, 1994.

  29 Quoted in Eleanor Harris, Good Housekeeping, op. cit.

  30 Ibid.

  31 Quoted in David Zeitlin, “A Lovely Audrey in Religious Role,” Life, June 8, 1959, pp. 141-144.

  32 Frank Thompson, American Film, May 1990, p. 56.

  33 Simon Brett, Films & Filming, March 1964, pp. 9-12.

  34 Stephen Whitty, San Jose Mercury News, March 12, 1993.

  35 Quoted in Audrey Hepburn Remembered, Wombat Productions, 1993.

  36 Zinnemann, op. cit., p. 162.

  37 Ibid., p. 171.

  38 Gene Ringgold, “Audrey Hepburn,” Films in Review, December 1971, p. 597.

  39 Quoted in “Audrey Hepburn Denies Planning to Become Catholic,” New York Post, October 13, 1959 (Reuters wire-service report).

  40 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 166.

  41 Fred Zinnemann FAX to BP, May 4, 1995.

  42 Joe Hyams, “The Fawn That Loves Audrey,” This Week magazine, November 2, 1958, pp. 8-9.

  43 Quoted by Eleanor Harris, Good Housekeeping, op. cit.

  44 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 175.

  45 Quoted in Joyce Waldman, “Audrey’s Fantastic Figure,” Cosmopolitan, June 1959, pp. 60-64.

  46 Quoted in Eleanor Harris, Good Housekeeping, op. cit., p. 121.

  47 Bob Willoughby to BP, May 5, 1995.

  48 Quoted by Eleanor Harris, Good Housekeeping, op. cit.

  49 Katharine Dunham to BP, February 16, 1994.

  50 Quoted by Gene Ringgold in Films in Review, December 1971, p. 598.

  51 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., pp. 172-173.

  52 Quoted in Latham, op. cit., p. 61.

  53 Brett, op. cit.

  54 Wendy Keys to BP, New York, October 11, 1994.

  55 Mel Ferrer to BP, February 24, 1995.

  56 Ibid.

  57 Eleanor Harris, Good Housekeeping, op. cit., p. 121.

  58 Radie Harris, “Audrey Hepburn—the girl, the gamin and the star,” Photoplay, March 1955, p. 100.

  59 Pauline Swanson, Photoplay, April 1954, p. 102.

  60 John Huston, An Open Book (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), p. 283.

  61 Cy Egan, Jr., “Ferrer Tells How Audrey Broke Her Back,” New York journal American, January 31, 1959.

  62 Quoted in Warren Harris, op. cit., p. 168.

  63 Quoted in Photoplay, May 1959, p. 100.

  64 Quoted in Eleanor Harris, Good Housekeeping, op. cit.

  65 Ibid.

  66 Quoted in Earl Wilson, New York Post, March 24, 1959.

  67 Doug McClure to John Barba, October 26, 1994.

  68 Huston, op. cit., p. 284.

  69 Quoted by Robert Wolders, October 21, 1994.

  70 Molly Haskell, “Our Fair Lady Audrey Hepburn,” Film Comment, March/April 1991, p. 14.

  71 Quoted in Dominick Dunne, “Hepburn Heart,” Vanity Fair, May 1991.

  72 Quoted in Edward Klein, “One Woman’s Search for Love: A Profile of Audrey Hepburn,” Parade, March 5, 1989, pp. 5-6.

  73 Ibid., p. 6.

  74 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 183.

  75 Parool, October 2, 1959 (translated by Sandra Homner).

  76 Quoted in Morley, Audrey Hepburn: A Celebration (London: Pavilion Books Ltd., 1993), p. 103.

  77 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 183.

  78 Charles Higham, Audrey (New York: Macmillan, 1984), p. 144.

  79 AH on Larry King Live, January 25, 1990.

  80 Quoted in Look, November 8, 1960.

  81 Quoted in Higham, op. cit. p. 147.

  82 Quoted in Joseph Barry, “Audr
ey Hepburn at 40,” McCall‘s, July 1969, p. 57.

  83 AH at George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y., October 25, 1992.

  84 Quoted in Richard Zoerink, “Truman Capote Talks About his Crowd,” Playgirl, September 1975, pp. 50-51, 54, 80-81, 128.

  85 Quoted in Morley, op. cit., p. 106.

  86 Patricia Neal, As I Am (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), p. 213; and Patricia Neal to BP, March 20, 1995.

  87 Henry Mancini in “Audrey Hepburn Remembered,” Wombat Productions, 1993.

  88 Ginny Mancini to BP, Los Angeles, December 12, 1994.

  89 Quoted in Warren Harris, op. cit., p. 185.

  90 Frank Thompson, American Film, May 1990, p. 56.

  91 Herbert Feinstein, “My Gorgeous Darling Sweetheart Angels: Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn,” Film Reviews, Spring 1962, p. 68.

  92 Quoted in Rowland Barber, “The Delightful Riddle of Audrey Hepburn,” Good Housekeeping, August 1962, p. 112.

  93 Ibid.

  94 M. Thomas Inge, ed., Truman Capote: Conversations, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson and London, 1987; Playboy interview, Eric Norden, March 15, 1968, 51-53, 58-62, 160-170.

  95 Michael Sragow, San Francisco Examiner, December 7, 1990.

  96 Deborah Kerr to BP, April 17, 1996.

  97 Vito Russo, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), p. 139.

  98 Quoted in Latham, op. cit., p. 84.

  99 Quoted in Russo, op. cit., p. 140.

  100 Ibid., pp. 140-141.

  101 Barber, op. cit., p. 61; and “The Two Audrey Hepburns,” by Eliot George, Silver Screen, August 1964, p. 51.

  102 Billy and Audrey Wilder to BP, Beverly Hills, January 30, 1995.

  103 George Axelrod to BP, March 25, 1996.

  104 Quoted in Higham, op. cit., p. 155.

  105 Quoted in Woodward, op. cit., p. 199.

  106 Quoted in Higham, op. cit., pp. 155-156.

  107 Quoted in Morley, op. cit., p. 117.

  108 Tony Curtis and Barry Paris, Tony Curtis: The Autobiography (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1993), p. 214.

  109 Quoted in Higham, op. cit., p. 158.

  110 Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley, eds., The Noel Coward Diaries September 25, 1962 entry, (Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1982).

  111 Michael Quarles van Ufford to John Barba, February 26, 1994.

  112 George, op. cit.

  113 Billy and Audrey Wilder to BP, op. cit.

  114 Quoted in Joseph Andrew Casper, Stanley Donen, Filmmakers, No. 5. (Metuchen N.J. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1983), p. 166.

  115 James Coburn to BP, Los Angeles, February 2, 1995.

 

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