Mel Ferrer

when she met Mel Ferrer. Although twice married, with four kids and 12 years her senior she fell instantly and deeply in love with him. Audrey is nominated for the Best Actress Award for staring in Roman holiday, and begins to perform in Ondine. About 12 weeks in Audrey suffers from exhaustion. Smoking more than a pack of cigarettes a day and being 15 pounds under the recommended weight. So Audrey steps back after 157 performances and takes a much needed break. During this break Ferrer flies to…

Can you imagine being a star in an abundance of movies, receiving several awards, learning additional languages, and being named best dressed all in one lifetime? Audrey Hepburn was very well-known in the acting world, in addition, she was also a young philanthropist who loved helping and giving to people. Furthermore, she set the bar quite high with her sense of style. An acting career, many accomplishments, and an amazing family allowed Audrey Hepburn to be quite successful. Despite Audrey’s…

rewarded an Oscar for best actress. This gained her respect and popularity in America, it also caught the eyes directors and producers of big films such as Funny Face, Sabrina, Love in the Afternoon and The Nun’s Story. In the film Ondine her and Mel Ferrer were co-stars, the two’s chemistry was hot on set and…

She left her career as a full-time actor after being nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Wait Until Dark. She does appear sporadically in various movies. She spent most of her time at her home in Switzerland. She and her then-husband, Mel Ferrer, had two sons then divorced in 1968. She married an Italian psychiatrist, Andrea Dotti, and had one son with him the following year. In…

On May 4, 1929, philanthropist and style heroine Audrey Hepburn was born near Brussels, Belgium. Unlike many other Hollywood film stars, she was not born into her success. She had an arduous childhood, some of her younger years being spent hiding from the Nazis. Despite the suffering Audrey and her mother endured, she quickly blossomed into a beautiful young woman with a life overflowing with success. All across the world, people strive to follow in her chic and polished footsteps. Hepburn was,…

Did you yet “discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself and the other for helping others” (Hepburn)? This woman strongly believed in this and spent her life to helping others until her death which was possibly caused because she forgot that she had another hand to take care of her own self. Despite her traumatic childhood, Audrey Hepburn was able to overcome the nightmare experiences through possessing strong morals and beliefs of her own and not only had a successful career as…

Growing up with nothing and ending up with everything. This describes exactly how Audrey Hepburn’s life played out. For those who don’t know, Audrey Hepburn was a famous actress, model, and dancer in the late forties and fifties. Even though Audrey Hepburn faced challenges early in her life, she rose to fame and left a dazzling legacy behind. Audrey Kathleen Ruston was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. She was born to her mother and father, Ella van Heemstra and Joseph Ruston. However,…