Article: Hepburn's life was no breakfast at Tiffany's

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 ...

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