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
William Wyler’s Oscar Nominated Actors
William Wyler
36 Acting Nominations
(s) supporting category
(*) Academy Award winner
William Wyler: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
1936
Walter Huston (above, with Ruth Chatterton) Dodsworth
Walter Brennan (s) Come and Get It * (Wyler replaced Howard Hawks, who received co-directing credit)
Bonita Granville (s) These Three
Maria Ouspenskaya (s) Dodsworth
1937
Claire Trevor (s) Dead End
1938
Bette Davis Jezebel *
Fay Bainter (s) Jezebel *
1939
Laurence Olivier (above, with Merle Oberon) Wuthering Heights
Geraldine Fitzgerald (s) Wuthering Heights
1940
Bette Davis The Letter
Walter Brennan (s) The Westerner *
James Stephenson (s) The Letter
1941
Bette Davis The Little Foxes
Patricia Collinge (s) The Little Foxes
Teresa Wright (s) The Little Foxes
1942
Walter Pidgeon Mrs. Miniver
Greer Garson Mrs. Miniver *
Henry Travers (s) Mrs. Miniver
Teresa Wright (s) Mrs. Miniver *
Dame May Whitty (s) Mrs. Miniver
1946
Fredric March The Best Years of Our [...]
by Andre Soares | January 27, 2007
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Tags: Academy Awards, Audrey Hepburn, Bette Davis, Classic Movies, Dodsworth, Fay Bainter, Film Awards, Jezebel, Roman Holiday, Ruth Chatterton, Walter Huston, William Wyler
