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 LACMA Series: ROMAN HOLIDAY, SABRINA
Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
“Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever” Intro
Screening schedule and synopses from LACMA’s press release:
Roman Holiday
October 23 | 7:30 pm | Introduction by Peter Bogdanovich
Cloistered in a Roman palace on a brief state visit and yearning for a taste of la dolce vita, a young princess from an unnamed European country breaks curfew and hits the town, where too much champagne propels her straight into the arms of an accommodating American—a reporter who knows an exclusive story when it wakes up in his apartment, needing coffee and a new outfit for the scooter. Love blossoms when they set off on a magical mystery tour of the great monuments of the Eternal City; but as [...]
by Andre Soares | October 24, 2009
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Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn: The Now and Forever, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Classic Movies, LACMA, Los Angeles Screenings, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, They All Laughed, Two for the Road
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
Gavin Lambert at LACMA
Author-screenwriter Gavin Lambert, who died last July at age 80, is being honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with the series "A Tribute to Gavin Lambert," which kicks off on Friday at the Leo S. Bing Theater. The first two films of the series are The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961, above) and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), both of which Lambert co-adapted from novels.
Based on Tennessee Williams‘ novel and directed by Jose Quintero, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone follows an aging actress, delicately played by Vivien Leigh, as she looks for both companionship and her lost youth in the streets of Rome. She succeeds in her quest — [...]
