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Transcript: Audrey Hepburn Remembered
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- January 23, 1993
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SUSAN STAMBERG, Host: Finally this week a farewell to Edda Van Hemstra
Hepburn Rustin [sp]. As Audrey Hepburn, she graced movie screens
like old-style royalty, all elegance and style. Ms. Hepburn died
of colon cancer in Switzerland. She was 63.
People who knew her said that, with Audrey Hepburn, what you saw
was what you got. She was the way she looked - regal, beautiful,
elfin, serene. She was that way in 26 films, including Sabrina, Funny
Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade.
Roman Holiday was her first American film in 1953. It made her
a star and won her an Oscar. In it, she was an AWOL princess who
tells journalist Gregory Peck she's on holiday ...