After Alain Delon, Steve McQueen and Brigitte Bardot Guillaume Evin tackles another monument of cinema: Audrey Hepburn. The writer and specialist in the seventh art traces the exceptional journey of an actress who is still cherished today, despite having left the big screen more than fifty years ago.
Audrey Hepburn - an icon apart
In this book, to be published on October 23rd by Casa editions, the author looks back on the successful and impeccable career of someone who has played for and alongside the greatest in cinema. An atypical career marked by an unhappy childhood in boarding school, the horrors of World War II, and the search for her father…nothing destined this intelligent pixie to become Hollywood's biggest star. While the whole world has eyes only for sultry blondes with naive bodies, Audrey Hepburn, denotes and surprises with her dancer posture and slender figure. Yet it was her smile, her songbird look and her big doe eyes that would make her the unforgettable actress of 1950-1960's cinema. Renowned directors like George Cukor, William Wyler and Stanley Donen chose her to shine on camera and bring to life characters who will mark film history forever. She only responded to big names: sometimes princess, sometimes luxury call girl in the arms of Cary Grant and Humphrey Bogart. At just 24 years old, the one who thought she would not survive the war was awarded the Oscar for best actress for Roman Holidays. Since then, she never ceased to amaze, and reinvent herself and infuse her special touch into each of her projects. Thanks to a rich iconography, Guillaume Evin takes us behind the scenes of the life of an artist with a big heart who ended her film career at only 38 years old. After years of the limelight, Audrey Hepburn retired from social life to care for her family and devote herself to Unicef. In this book, more than 200 pages bring us a little closer to the actress and lift the veil on the phenomenon Audrey Hepburn, the star who was unlike any other.
Audrey Hepburn, Guillaume Evin, éditions Casa, 29,95 euros
Translated by Constance Caiola
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