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Article: Cinderella story. (Flashback).
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- June 1, 2002
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In 1953 Audrey Hepburn's role as a prim princess-turned-bohemian bon vivant in Roman Holiday won the newly minted star an Oscar. But Hepburn's life was more Cinderella than royal rebel. Originally named Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, she and her mother survived on tulip bulbs in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. After the war, the writer Colette discovered the young ingenue and insisted that she play Gigi on Broadway. And throughout her career Hepburn, the archetypal gamine, would blossom again and again. In Sabrina, she played a chauffeur's boyish daughter-turned-glamorous sophisticate; in Funny Face, a bookshop clerk-turned-model; and in Breakfast at Tiffany's she ...