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Article: Hepburn's life was no breakfast at Tiffany's
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 14, 1994
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AUDREY HEPBURN
An Intimate Portrait
By Diana Maychick
Birch Lane Press, 247 pp., illustrated, $21.95
By the late 1960s, Audrey Hepburn's prestige as a film star was
so great that during the shooting of the thriller "Wait Until Dark"
-- she played a sightless woman -- she could require the production
to shut down every day at 4 p.m. so that the cast and crew could sip
tea, eat dainty sandwiches and talk quietly with one another.
Hepburn was one of the few stars with the clout to command such a
thing. Yet she emerges in "Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait" --
a lean, spare, sympathetic and intriguing biography -- as a
vulnerable woman who spent much of her time trying to ...