LA SOLEDAD DE LOS DIAMANTES
Audrey Hepburn
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Standard bearer of elegance and style, Audrey Hepburn went from being a ballet promise to an established star At just 23 years old, she won an Oscar for her first film, Roman Holiday. A brilliant career full of emotional ups and downs, where the search for happiness always overshadowed her desire for fame. It is inevitable to think of Audrey Hepburn and that they do not appear
in our memory images of the young princess on a Vespa on Roman Holiday, the cute street flower girl who ends up as a young lady in My Fair Lady or the eccentric Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's, on the windowsill singing Moon River. Beyond the actress, the devoted mother or the punished eternal lover, Audrey Hepburn is an icon of
cinematographic culture, not only for having worked with Donen, Wyler, Zinneman, Wilder or Cukor, but also for her wisdom when choosing roles and her desire to constantly improve. Donald Spoto, writer, theologian and biographer of other myths such as Hitchcock, Monroe or Ingrid Bergman, makes a portrait that, moving away from the glamor of filming, parties and the luxuries typical of this profession, unmasks an extremely sensitive, distrustful woman, fragile, shy and insecure. "I was born with an enormous need for affection and with a tremendous urge to provide it." In 1929 little Audrey Kathleen Ruston was born in Brussels, the fruit of the marriage between Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston and Baroness Ella van Heemstra. Born to an English father and a Dutch mother, -film critics have always attributed to her "a curious way of speaking"-, from a very young age she had to deal with all kinds of obstacles: being away from
hers her two brothers, Ian and Alexander, getting used to the solitude of a boarding school in Kent, enduring the indifference she felt
Ruston for her children and the baroness's strict, severe and distant character. A cloudy childhood marked by the abandonment of her father, which she never got over and which made her insecure for life, and by the hardships of World War II, which nearly cost her her life. . "I wanted to dance more than I was afraid of the Germans," admits the actress. During the war, Ella Audrey attended ballet classes and even performed in various performances in Anhrem, the Netherlands, where she received her
early criticism of her as an "artist." They were not easy moments: misery, hunger and cold marked part of her youth.
With 1.70 centimeters, 50 kilos and enormous black eyes, she managed to make everyone fall in love; but, nevertheless, she never came to feel loved. Her first husband, Mel Ferrer, was always more interested in promoting her professional career than in addressing her lack of affection, and her second husband, Andrea Dotti, turned out to be an inveterate womanizer. The best thing she got out of each link was her two sons Sean and Luca. Her entire dedication to her children and working as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador gave her the personal satisfaction she longed for.
A SWEET, A CIGARETTE
A chocolate lover and addicted to cigarettes, she even smoked three packs Audio 5 Mexicano Locución Jorge Dau
daily. On May 4, 1945, the day of her sixteenth birthday, a group of British soldiers entered Velp, a town where she took refuge with her mother during the conflict, proclaiming the end of World War II. One of the soldiers gave her a cigarette (cigarette) and five chocolate bars that she devoured until she was stuffed, "for me freedom has a special smell: that of English cigarettes and gasoline." /