![]() ![]() Postwar, they moved to England, where Hepburn’s budding dance career quickly led to theater and film work. Mother and daughter became involved in the Resistance, a move that would inform Hepburn’s later humanitarian acts. There, in her grandparents’ house, Hepburn spent the harrowing years of World War II, nearly dying of starvation during the German occupation. Born to an unaffectionate Dutch baroness and an emotionally distant British layabout (who abandoned the family in her youth), Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston was raised in Belgium and Arnhem, Holland. ![]() Hepburn’s role as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) made the elegant waif one of the century’s style icons. ![]() Straightforward, informative biography of the silver screen’s fairest lady by veteran celebrity chronicler Spoto ( Marilyn Monroe, 2001, etc.). ![]()
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