Enchantment

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Born in Brussels in 1929 Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father & a Dutch Baroness. But when she was five her father deserted the family. With the outbreak of war in 1939 her mother thought they would be safer in Holland than Holland Park but although they survived the German Occupation the experience left its physical & emotional scars. Back in England again Audrey studied ballet with Marie Rambert. After a few West End musicals & minor film parts she was spotted by the author Colette to star in a stage version of her novel Gigi". & then Audreys career took off. Her debut screen role was the Princess in the enchanting " Roman Holiday". It won her an Oscar. She went on to bring her unique grace & high spirits to a number of highly acclaimed films
- from " Funny Face" & " The Nuns Story" to " My Fair Lady" " Breakfast at Tiffanys" & " Robin & Marian". For a while it looked as though her personal life would follow the Hollywood dream. But her marriage to Mel Ferrer was not to last. She married & divorced a second time & there were other passionate but short-lived affairs some revealed for the first time in this book but her relationships were never entirely successful. With all the insight background knowledge & innate sympathy for his subject qualities that have made his biographies of Hitchcock Dietrich Monroe & Bergman such international successes Donald Spoto truly captures the spirit of an elusive beautiful talented & vulnerable woman."