Miss Audrey Hepburn: A One-Woman Play in Two Acts (Hollywood Legends #43)

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Audrey Hepburn was not your usual movie star. She was the highest paid actress of her day, yet she never took a formal acting lesson.A child of war, and the daughter of a Fascist sympathizer, she spent her last years helping children of other wars.An Academy Award-winner for her first major film role (ROMAN HOLIDAY), Hepburn continued her storybook career with such classic movies as SABRINA, FUNNY FACE, THE NUN'S STORY, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, CHARADE, MY FAIR LADY and WAIT UNTIL DARK.Her two marriages ended in divorce.Michael B. Druxman's one-woman play, MISS AUDREY HEPBURN, is set in 1990. It finds the semi-retired actress in her home in Switzerland, filming a television commercial for UNICEF. It's not going well, and during a break, she ponders her life and the "ghosts" that still haunt her.