Make no mistake about it, Audrey Hepburn is a favorite here at Hollywood Yesterday – big, big favorite. She can always be found gracing our banners, we have frequent Audrey Hepburn related posts and feature every Audrey Hepburn product we can find to feature.
Sigh. She’s our girl.
So how could we NOT write up a post about the Audrey Hepburn Couture Muse Collection, shown above? I personally, somehow, don’t have the collection yet – but Christmas will be here before you know it and… er… my husband reads this blog.
Hint delivered.
The Audrey Hepburn Movies on DVD Collection:
The Audrey Hepburn Couture Muse Collection contains seven of her most beloved films in a unique collector’s package. If comes with 10 designer cards highlighting some of the greatest fashion moments in her career.
Titles included in this limited edition gift set are:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Sabrina
War and Peace
Roman Holiday
Paris When it Sizzles
My Fair Lady
Funny Face
For more information, see Audrey Hepburn Couture Muse Collection. The collection is available on Amazon, which I love and use frequently. They’re impeccable, and so freaking fast it never ceases to amaze me.
If you’re a regular on Hollywood Yesterday – or if you’ve ever been inside my home – you know one thing for sure: I love myself some Audrey Hepburn. The beauty, the talent, and (most importantly) the giving, generous spirit that defined the lady.
As an enthusiastic, card-carrying member of the proverbial SAVE THE WORLD – CHILDREN FIRST club, there’s little wonder that two of my all-time favorite actresses are Audrey Hepburn and Angelina Jolie. Can you say perfection in action?
Here’s a link to an outstanding article written about the one in a gazillion actress, Audrey Hepburn. It’s a celebration of this wonderful and beautiful actress’ life and legacy. As an Audrey Hepburn fan, I relished every single word. You will as well: Audrey Hepburn’s Little Black Dress: The Dress That Keeps On Giving.
For more articles, posters, pictures, videos, and even some amazing Audrey Hepburn Quotes, see the Audrey Hepburn section of Hollywood Yesterday. We’ve been known to celebrate this amazing life as well.
Wow. A set of three X-rays of Marilyn Monroe’s chest taken during a 1954 hospital visit have sold for $45,000 (£29,900) in Las Vegas, sold at a movie memorabilia auction at Planet Hollywood.
A chair from Marilyn Monroe’s final photo shoot sold for $35,000 (£23,250).
A dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in musical Funny Face fetched $56,250 (£37,360). I am all about Audrey Hepburn, so this makes perfect sense to me – if I had that kind of money in my bank, I’d have given at least as much for something that’d been worn by Lady Hepburn.
I’m not so sure about X-rays, though. That might be a bit much even for me!
“For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.”
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it`s at the end of your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand: the first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”
“My own life has been much more than a fairy tale. I`ve had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties I`ve gone through, I`ve always gotten a prize at the end.”
“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you`re exactly the same.”
“I never thought I`d land in pictures with a face like mine.”
“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people`s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”
“My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses .”
“It`s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so `don`t fuss, dear; get on with it.”
“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.”
“I was asked to act when I couldn`t act. I was asked to sing “Funny Face” when I couldn`t sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn`t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn`t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.”
“There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl`s complexion.”
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
“How shall I sum up my life? I think I’ve been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, ‘Good things aren’t supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.’ So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I’ve always had – how shall I say it? – the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.”
“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.”
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it`s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It`s probably the most important thing in a person.”
“A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.”
We all know a more beautiful actress has never graced the earth than Audrey Hepburn. We might as well enjoy a video tribute that supports this fact, right? After you’ve watched the video, be sure to check out the other articles, pictures, and featured stories on one of Hollywood Yesterday’s favorite actresses, Audrey Hepburn. You’ll find all of these and more in the Audrey Hepburn category.
You know how some movies are just so special to you they give you goose bumps? My Fair Lady is one that gets me every single time. Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison – how could it not?
This amazingly wonderful movie will be shown on Turner Classic Movies tomorrow afternoon (December 11) at 12:45 – check your listings for the time where you live. BUT… that’s not all TCM has up their sleeve. Immediately before My Fair Lady, they’re showing Gigi (1958 – with Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier) and immediately after My Fair Lady, they’re showing the 1956 The King and I with Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner and Rita Moreno!
You’d think they’d call it a day after that line up, wouldn’t you?
Nah. Starting at 8:00 tomorrow night, they’ll air a few of Bing Crosby’s best movies. First up is The Bells of Saint Mary (1936) co-starring Ingrid Bergman. Bing Crosby is a liberal priest who tries to soften the strict nun (Ingrid Bergman) who runs a boys’ school.
Immediately following The Bells of Saint Mary is 1945′s Pennies From Heaven with Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, and Louis Armstrong. In Pennies From Heaven, a singer gets involved with a grieving family and a haunted house.
After Pennies From Heaven, you can catch one of the best of the best, High Society (1956). In this musical version of The Philadelphia Story, tabloid reporters invade a society wedding. Bing Crosby is joined by none other than Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra in this beautiful movie.
Next?! Road to Bali (1952), starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope (!!!), and Dorothy Lamour. Two song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Bob Hope) are on the run. They compete for for a beautiful princess.
If you’re still awake and able to focus your eyes, they’ll show you another Bob Hope movie. I love Bob Hope like nobody’s business, so I know I’ll be taping this one. It’s the 1964 film A Global Affair. Bob Hope is joined by Yvonne De Carlo when a U.N. official tries to locate the mother of an abandoned baby.
I know where I’ll be tomorrow. As in all day. And night!
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once. – Audrey Hepburn