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Audrey Hepburn
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By the end of World War II, with no water or electricity in their home in the Netherlands, Audrey and her family were eating tulip bulbs to stay alive.
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Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden on the set of 'Sabrina.' Hepburn and Holden reportedly engaged in a brief but passionate affair during the filming though Holden was married at the time.
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Hepburn receives an Oscar for her first appearance in an American picture, 'Roman Holiday', in 1954. Her co-star Gregory Peck, was initially set to get top billing in the film but Peck made Paramount executives change it, saying, '...I'm smart enough to know this girl's going to win the Oscar(R) in her first picture, and I'm going to look like a damned fool if her name is not up there on top with mine.
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Hepburn gets a kiss from the fawn who appeared in the film Green Mansions in which she starred. She ended up keeping it as a pet temporarily.
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Hepburn in her iconic role of Holly Golightly in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Truman Capote had wanted Marilyn Monroe cast as Holly and was upset when Hepburn was given the part.
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Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison on the set of 'My Fair Lady
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Hepburn, her husband Mel Ferrer, and her son Sean did a lot of world wide travel because of Audrey and Mel's acting careers.
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Hepburn married Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti in January 1969 and their only child, a son Luca, was born the following year. Dotti had a reputation as being a womanizer and reportedly had numerous affairs before their divorce in 1982.
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A portrait of Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn on the set of Robin and Marian. Connery played the role of Robin Hood and Hepburn played the role of Lady Marian in this 1976 adventure movie.
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Soon after becoming a UNICEF ambassador, Audrey Hepburn went on a mission to Ethiopia, where years of drought and civil strife had caused terrible famine.
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At the time of her death, she was involved with Dutch actor, Robert Wolders. Although they weren't married Hepburn always viewed it as though they were married, just not formally.
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Hepburn with her first son Sean Ferrer. Sean would later work in many aspects of the motion picture business and he would later create the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.
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