5/27/2023 0 Comments Audrey Hepburn by Barry ParisSo what remained of the Hollywood PR and studio machines in the 1950s worked overtime to get the most out of one of the last old-fashioned starlets they had.Īudrey Hepburn’s movie-career story is about an actress who was often miscast, and even more often was misappropriated by Hollywood as a symbol of something the culture at large was losing. But Hepburn had “star quality” in the classic sense, in that she was beautiful, fashionable, and easy to like. Her singing voice was sweet but slight, and her range as an actress was limited. She’d been classically trained as a dancer, but had merely above-average moves. And here was Hepburn: slim, prim, and sprightly. The model for femininity on film was changing too, as sultry foreign bombshells and Marilyn Monroe brought a voluptuous sexuality to cinema. Marlon Brando and his Method-acting mob were charging out of New York’s Actors Studio and into Hollywood, deemphasizing glamour and introducing a rough, almost vulgar naturalism to screen acting. She had arrived in America from Europe a couple of years earlier, at a time when the very idea of a movie star was in flux. When Audrey Hepburn starred in Roman Holiday in 1953, she was 23 years old.
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