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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, [...]

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 [...]

Audrey Hepburn has her "Summer Under the Stars" day today, Tuesday, Aug. 11, on Turner Classic Movies. All of the Hepburn vehicles have been shown before on TCM; even so, there are two premieres in the schedule: Laughter in Paradise and The Secret People, two British productions in which Hepburn has small roles. (Actually, she has a mere bit part in Laughter in Paradise.) The [...]

Cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff, one of the early masters of color cinematography, has died. He was 94. Cardiff's work as a cinematographer was quite eclectic, ranging from his partnership with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the British-made Black Narcissus (1945) and The Red Shoes (1948) to prestigious international productions such as John Huston's The African Queen (1951) and King Vidor's War and Peace [...]