Still the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Roman Holiday is one of my favorite movies and is special to me because it always cheers me up when I'm down. Charade, The Children's Hour, Nun's Story, and Wait Until Dark are other good movies she did.

Yes: Those are all definitely good films. I've always also really enjoyed My Fair Lady.

Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sabrina and Charade...

She was beautiful inside as well as out, with all her humanitarian work.

@genplant29 said:

Yes: Those are all definitely good films. I've always also really enjoyed My Fair Lady.

Loved the music of My Fair Lady, but her cockney accent could get a bit annoying.

Oh I so loved On the Street Where You Live and still do.

@ausfem said:

@genplant29 said:

Yes: Those are all definitely good films. I've always also really enjoyed My Fair Lady.

Loved the music of My Fair Lady, but her cockney accent could get a bit annoying.

Oh I so loved On the Street Where You Live and still do.

Personally I thought MFL was her best performance but the movie on the whole isn't one of my favorites.

Such a wonderful voice. I always wondered what it would be like if she had played Mary Poppins, saying supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Would it be like saying The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain in "My Fair Lady"?

I really go for roughly the first half of The Nun's Story (the second half of that film goes into at times overly soapy territory). That part of the film, with the convent and novitiate depiction, and Miss Hepburn's lovely portrayal of the nun in question, is really interesting, fascinating, appealing, and a very nice time capsule.

Whoops I nearly got mixed up with the Black Narcissus. lol
I haven't seen this movie, but now plan to.

1947's Black Narcissus (starring Deborah Kerr) is definitely soapier than is The Nun's Story. And I don't think is as good as it.

Just finished watching The Nun's Story. Fascinating. Audrey did a wonderful job, playing a nun who struggles with trying to reach perfection.

Peter Finch perfect as the doctor with gruff exterior and a heart of gold.

SPOILER

I wish they'd added a little extra bit at the end letting us know what became of her after she left the convent.
I think after the war she would have tried to contact the doctor and back to the Congo.

I agree, it is better than the Black Narcissus..

I do like all of Audrey Hepburn's movies, but the one at the top of my list is Two for the Road.

Audrey's personal life, too, was amazing. I'm not sure of the specifics, but didn't she have a role in the resistance movement during WWII? And of course her work with UNICEF did such good, too.

She lived in the Netherlands during the German occupation. Up to now there is no proof that she had ever been in the resistance. Her family did suffer horribly as so many others have during the war, and this has had a lasting effect.

Another movie I liked is the romantic comedy "Sabrina (1954)", where she starred alongside William Holden and Humphrey Bogart.

Wonder2Wonder -- your response made me curious, so I did some searching on line. There certainly are some conflicting versions. One thing that kind of surprised me was that most sources agree her parents were nazi sympathizers. That's horrible.

I don't like to think the stories about her were pure Hollywood fiction, but that kind of thing was pretty common I think.

Oh well, she was a hell of an actress and I love watching her movies.

according Wikipedia ;

In the mid-1930s, Hepburn's parents recruited and collected donations for the British Union of Fascists.[16] Joseph left the family abruptly in 1935 after a "scene" in Brussels when Adriaantje (as she was known in the family) was six; later she often spoke of the effect on a child of being "dumped" as "children need two parents".[17] Joseph moved to London, where he became more deeply involved in Fascist activity and never visited his daughter abroad.[18] Hepburn later professed that her father's departure was "the most traumatic event of my life".[11][19]

That same year, her mother moved with Hepburn to her family's estate in Arnhem; her stepbrothers Alex and Ian (now 15 and 11) were sent to The Hague to live with relatives. Joseph wanted her educated in England,[20] so in 1937, Ella and Hepburn moved to Kent, England, where Hepburn, known as Audrey Ruston or "Little Audrey", was educated at a small independent school in Elham.[21][22]

Hepburn's parents officially divorced in 1938. In the 1960s, Hepburn renewed contact with her father after locating him in Dublin through the Red Cross; although he remained emotionally detached, Hepburn supported him financially until his death.[23]

After Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, Hepburn's mother moved her daughter back to Arnhem in the hope that, as during the First World War, the Netherlands would remain neutral and be spared a German attack. While there, Hepburn attended the Arnhem Conservatory from 1939 to 1945. She had begun taking ballet lessons during her last years at boarding school, and continued training in Arnhem under the tutelage of Winja Marova, becoming her "star pupil".[11] After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Hepburn used the name Edda van Heemstra, because an "English-sounding" name was considered dangerous during the German occupation. Her family was profoundly affected by the occupation, with Hepburn later stating that "had we known that we were going to be occupied for five years, we might have all shot ourselves. We thought it might be over next week… six months… next year… that's how we got through".[11] In 1942, her uncle, Otto van Limburg Stirum (husband of her mother's older sister, Miesje), was executed in retaliation for an act of sabotage by the resistance movement; while he had not been involved in the act, he was targeted due to his family's prominence in Dutch society.[11] Hepburn's half-brother Ian was deported to Berlin to work in a German labour camp, and her other half-brother Alex went into hiding to avoid the same fate.[11]

After her uncle's death, Hepburn, Ella and Miesje left Arnhem to live with her grandfather, Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, in nearby Velp.[11] Around that time Hepburn performed silent dance performances in order to raise money for the Dutch resistance effort.[24] It was long believed that she participated in the Dutch resistance itself,[11] but in 2016 the Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein' reported that after extensive research it had not found any evidence of such activities.[25] However, in his 2019 book author Robert Matzen claimed that she had supported the resistance, by giving "underground concerts" to raise money for the resistance and taking a message about where to go for a downed Allied flyer hiding in the woodlands north of Velp.[26][27] In addition to other traumatic events, she witnessed the transportation of Dutch Jews to concentration camps, later stating that "more than once I was at the station seeing trainloads of Jews being transported, seeing all these faces over the top of the wagon. I remember, very sharply, one little boy standing with his parents on the platform, very pale, very blond, wearing a coat that was much too big for him, and he stepped on the train. I was a child observing a child."[28]

After the Allied landing on D-Day, living conditions grew worse, and Arnhem was subsequently heavily damaged during Operation Market Garden. During the Dutch famine that followed in the winter of 1944, the Germans blocked the resupply routes of the Dutch people's already-limited food and fuel supplies as retaliation for railway strikes that were held to hinder German occupation. Like others, Hepburn's family resorted to making flour out of tulip bulbs to bake cakes and biscuits;[29][30] she developed acute anæmia, respiratory problems and œdema as a result of malnutrition.[31] The van Heemstra family was also seriously financially affected by the occupation, during which many of their properties, including their principal estate in Arnhem, were badly damaged or destroyed.[32]