Audrey Hepburn Film Series: CHARADE, MY FAIR LADY
Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn in Love in the Afternoon
Audrey Hepburn LACMA Series: ROMAN HOLIDAY, SABRINA
Love in the Afternoon
October 30 | 9:35 pm
Love in the Afternoon, Wilder’s long awaited tribute to his idol Ernst Lubitsch, is based on a French novel and tells the story of Ariane, an innocent young cello student in Paris whose father is a detective, played by Chevalier, the star of four Lubitsch musicals. In order to spark the romantic interest of Frank, an American millionaire and notorious playboy ensconced at the Ritz, Ariane assumes the guise of a sophisticated woman of affairs; but when Frank hires Ariane’s father to investigate the mysterious girl who only visits him in the afternoon, complications arise. [...]
by Andre Soares | October 24, 2009
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Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn: The Now and Forever, Charade, Classic Movies, LACMA, Los Angeles Screenings, Love in the Afternoon, My Fair Lady, Wait Until Dark, War and Peace
Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever
Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
"Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever" is the title of the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art film series that kicks off this evening with a double bill: Roman Holiday (1953, right), the film that both made Audrey Hepburn a star — in her first leading role — and earned the actress her only Academy Award, and Peter Bogdanovich’s little-seen They All Laughed (1981), Hepburn’s last starring role in a feature film. Bogdanovich will introduce the screening.
Classy without being aloof; alluring without being vulgar; sophisticated without being snotty. That pretty much would summarize Audrey Hepburn’s screen presence. She could be hilarious, e.g., doing her best to seduce Cary Grant in Charade (1963); she [...]
by Andre Soares | October 23, 2009
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Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Charade, Classic Movies, LACMA, Los Angeles Screenings, My Fair Lady, Roman Holiday, Two for the Road, Wait Until Dark, War and Peace
