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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Audrey Hepburn about Hepburn, Audrey, Hepburn's with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Literature.
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conversations.value: the author loves Audrey Hepburn, and who can blame him? His exuberant profile of the movie star traces Hepburn's life from her childhood in the Netherlands (where she aided the Dutch resistence) through her Hollywood career (from her Oscar-winning performance in Roman Holiday to Steven Spielberg's Always ). the author, a veteran of Hollywood biography books, wants to free his readers of any false impressions that might sully the late star's reputation. The impression that Hepburn was a snob, he persuades us, was the result of an introverted character formed by her experiences during the war. Some of the most fascinating material in this delightfully readable volume concerns the impact the ever-elegant Audrey Hepburn had on women's style and self-conception. If you don't already love her, the author's book will at the least evoke admiration of her, if not enlist you in a movement for her beatification.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Hepburn's, UNICEF, fed, inspired, compelled.
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conversations.value: the author loves Audrey Hepburn, and who can blame him? His exuberant profile of the movie star traces Hepburn's life from her childhood in the Netherlands (where she aided the Dutch resistence) through her Hollywood career (from her Oscar-winning performance in Roman Holiday to Steven Spielberg's Always ). the author, a veteran of Hollywood biography books, wants to free his readers of any false impressions that might sully the late star's reputation. The impression that Hepburn was a snob, he persuades us, was the result of an introverted character formed by her experiences during the war. This wartime experience both fed Hepburn's love of the spotlight and inspired a concern for the poor and powerless that compelled her to campaign for UNICEF from 1988 until her death in 1993. Some of the most fascinating material in this delightfully readable volume concerns the impact the ever-elegant Audrey Hepburn had on women's style and self-conception. If you don't already love her, the author's book will at the least evoke admiration of her, if not enlist you in a movement for her beatification.
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conversations.value: Audrey Hepburn
  Audrey Kathleen Ruston was born on Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, a municipality in Brussels, Belgium, in the early morning hours of May 4, 1929. Her family had recently moved from London. The family surname was changed by Audrey's father to Hepburn-Ruston in homage to the Hepburn family name, which had recently died out. Audrey would later drop the Ruston surname.
  Audrey was the only child of Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (1889–1980), a Bohemian (the Czech Republic)-born Englishman of Irish, French, English, and Austrian descent with an erstwhile career in finance, and his second wife, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (1900–1984), a Dutch aristocrat, whose parents (Audrey's grandparents) were Baroness Elbrig van Asbeck and Baron Aernoud van Heemstra who had Dutch, Hungarian, and French heritage.
  The Baron and Baroness van Heemstra traveled internationally in service to the Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina. Audrey had two half-brothers by her mother's first marriage: Jonkheer Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles van Ufford (1920– 1979) and Jonkheer Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford (1924–2010), known more succinctly as Alexander and Ian.
  Soon after Audrey's birth, her mother began searching for a house in the country where her children could be raised in a quiet, calm, and beautiful environment. The baroness settled on a house located in Linkebeck, a small village located just a few miles outside of Brussels. It was here that Audrey spent the first six years of her life, years in which she would develop a very close, if somewhat unemotionally uninvolved, attachment to her mother.
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conversations.value: While relaxing on a Mediterranean cruise as a guest of her friends the millionaire Paul Weiller and his wife, Princess Olympia Torlonia, Audrey met Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti, nine years her junior. Initially concerned about the age difference and her status as a divorce, they fell in love and were married on January 18, 1969, in Morges, Switzerland.
  At age 40, Audrey gave birth to their son Luca on February 8, 1970. During her pregnancy Audrey rested in Switzerland in an effort to forego another miscarriage. During her time away from Rome, where her husband Andrea maintained his practice of psychiatry, specializing in the treatment of drug addiction, rumors, fuelled by photos, of his dalliances with beautiful women began to swirl.
  Audrey was accepted wholeheartedly by Andrea's family and tried to accept her role as the wife of an Italian man who felt it his right to have female relationships outside of is marriage, even though he had captured the love and admiration of one of the most accomplished and desirable women in the world,.
  The marriage lasted 13 years, officially ending in 1982, although Audrey began a relationship with the Dutch actor Robert Wolders, the widower of actress Merle Oberon, in 1980. Robert Wolders would be Audrey's loving companion until her death in 1993. In the last years of WWII, although Robby (as Audrey called him) lived near her family in a suburb of Arnhem, they did not know each other. Nevertheless, their shared childhood experiences bonded them.
  From very early in her career, worked opposite the crème de la crème of male leads. Eight of her co-stars earned Best Actor Oscars in their lifetimes: Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Henry Fonda, Gary Cooper, Peter Finch, Burt Lancaster, and Rex Harrison. Others were nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, but didn't get the nod. Included in this category are Peter O'Toole, Alan Arkin, Cary Grant, James Garner, and Albert Finney.
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conversations.value: She spoke her last words to her son Sean the night before she died, awakening briefly from sleep. According to Sean, he asked her if she had any regrets. Audrey's response was that she was sorry not to have met the Dalai Lama because "he was the closest thing to God we have on earth."
  Her 30-minute funeral service was held at the small Protestant church in the village of Tolochenaz, Switzerland, on January 24, 1993, and was attended by 600 mourners. Maurice Eindiguer, the same pastor who wed Hepburn and Mel Ferrer and baptized their son Sean in 1960, presided over her funeral. Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, representing UNICEF, delivered a eulogy.
  Many family members and friends attended the funeral, including her sons, Sean Ferrer and Luca Doti, her partner Robert Wolders, her brother Ian Quarles von Ufford, ex-husbands Andrea Dotti and Mel Ferrer, her close friend Hubert de Givenchy, executives of UNICEF, and fellow actors Alain Delon and Roger Moore.
  The day of her funeral, Audrey was interred in a delicate pine coffin at the Tolochenaz Cemetery, a small cemetery that sits atop a hill overlooking the village of the same name.
  Many thanks to the official website (www.audreyhepburn.com) for important details regarding Audrey's life and her sweeping contributions to 20th century culture, style, and humanitarianism.
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conversations.value: According to Sean, he asked her if she had any regrets. Audrey's response was that she was sorry not to have met the Dalai Lama because "he was the closest thing to God we have on earth."
  Her 30-minute funeral service was held at the small Protestant church in the village of Tolochenaz, Switzerland, on January 24, 1993, and was attended by 600 mourners. Maurice Eindiguer, the same pastor who wed Hepburn and Mel Ferrer and baptized their son Sean in 1960, presided over her funeral. Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, representing UNICEF, delivered a eulogy.
  Many family members and friends attended the funeral, including her sons, Sean Ferrer and Luca Doti, her partner Robert Wolders, her brother Ian Quarles von Ufford, ex-husbands Andrea Dotti and Mel Ferrer, her close friend Hubert de Givenchy, executives of UNICEF, and fellow actors Alain Delon and Roger Moore.
  The day of her funeral, Audrey was interred in a delicate pine coffin at the Tolochenaz Cemetery, a small cemetery that sits atop a hill overlooking the village of the same name.
  Many thanks to the official website (www.audreyhepburn.com) for important details regarding Audrey's life and her sweeping contributions to 20th century culture, style, and humanitarianism.
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conversations.value: Audrey Hepburn
  During her term as, first, a postulant, then a novice, Gabrielle, now Sister Luke, struggles to come to terms with her vows of obedience, finding it agonisingly difficult to bury her natural streak of independence, or the intense pride she takes in her work. Her superiors, realising that she is not yet at one with what they call 'the religious life', place every kind of disciplinary obstacle in her way before finally despatching her to the Congo where she assists Dr Fortunati, the dishevelled, outspoken and inspirationally brilliant medical man who runs the Congo hospital. She impresses him with her exceptional skills and her individuality; in turn, he adds to the inner struggles of her conscience by voicing his own doubts about her suitability for convent life.
  After a bout of TB, from which she recovers, Sister Luke — who has won an exceptional degree of love and devotion from the native people, and from her fellow sisters — is sent back to Belgium as escort to a seriously ill patient. She finds the resumption of life in the cloisters almost intolerable, but all thoughts of a return to Africa are halted by the outbreak of war. When she receives word that her beloved father has been killed in a Nazi ambush, unchristian feelings of hatred against the enemy assail her. After seventeen years of struggle, she decides to go out into the world to work for the underground movement.
  It is easy to see why Audrey was drawn to the story, and particularly responsive to its close associations with her own past. She formed a strong bond with Marie-Louise Habets, who worked privately with her on the conduct of a nun's life and taught her many things, including correct handling of surgical instruments for the hospital scenes.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Finally, Holland-Belgium, Resistance, behaving, aiding.
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conversations.value: Audrey Hepburn
  During her term as, first, a postulant, then a novice, Gabrielle, now Sister Luke, struggles to come to terms with her vows of obedience, finding it agonisingly difficult to bury her natural streak of independence, or the intense pride she takes in her work. Her superiors, realising that she is not yet at one with what they call 'the religious life', place every kind of disciplinary obstacle in her way before finally despatching her to the Congo where she assists Dr Fortunati, the dishevelled, outspoken and inspirationally brilliant medical man who runs the Congo hospital. She impresses him with her exceptional skills and her individuality; in turn, he adds to the inner struggles of her conscience by voicing his own doubts about her suitability for convent life. 
  After a bout of TB, from which she recovers, Sister Luke — who has won an exceptional degree of love and devotion from the native people, and from her fellow sisters — is sent back to Belgium as escort to a seriously ill patient. She finds the resumption of life in the cloisters almost intolerable, but all thoughts of a return to Africa are halted by the outbreak of war. Finally sent as a surgical assistant to a hospital on the Holland-Belgium border, she finds herself behaving contrary to her orders by aiding a Resistance worker. When she receives word that her beloved father has been killed in a Nazi ambush, unchristian feelings of hatred against the enemy assail her. After seventeen years of struggle, she decides to go out into the world to work for the underground movement. 
  It is easy to see why Audrey was drawn to the story, and particularly responsive to its close associations with her own past. She formed a strong bond with Marie-Louise Habets, who worked privately with her on the conduct of a nun's life and taught her many things, including correct handling of surgical instruments for the hospital scenes.
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conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'The fissures in Audrey's marriage were now becoming a matter of public knowledge'.
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conversations.value: The fissures in Audrey's marriage were now becoming a matter of public knowledge. Although she continued to put a good face on her relationship with her husband, and seemed still to be dependent on him, they were overheard quarrelling in her dressing room. With all the attendant stresses, it was a bitter blow when, after months of hard work and with all her songs recorded, she was finally told that she would, after all, have to be almost entirely dubbed. To add insult to injury, an underling was despatched to break the news. For the first and last time in her professional life Audrey, distraught, walked off the set. When she returned, it was with a gracious apology.
  Audrey lost eight pounds in weight, and Cukor and Warner became worried about her health. At much financial cost to the production, she was given a couple of days off to sleep. Yet, throughout all these terrible difficulties, she kept her personal unhappiness to herself and retained the outward dignity and grace for which she was renowned. She eschewed the trappings of grandeur consonant with her position as a million-dollar star, riding the bicycle given her so many years before by Billy Wilder. She also bought and presented Rex Harrison with a similar vehicle.
  On 22 November 1963, during the filming of a large crowd scene, Cukor was given news that President Kennedy had been assassinated. The stricken director found himself unable to speak to the assembled company. An equally shocked Audrey came to the rescue. Grabbing a hand-microphone and controlling her own evident emotion, she said, 'The President of the United States is dead. Shall we have two minutes of silence to pray or do whatever you feel is appropriate.' After the silence, she added, 'May he rest in peace.' Efforts then to continue with the filming proved futile, and work was suspended for the rest of the day.
  The story itself and the brilliant score and lyrics have proved timeless and indestructible. Rex Harrison's Higgins transcends his own stage original. The sets and costumes are lavish, the supporting roles well taken, and there is much enjoyment to be had from the film. The exterior scenes, however, are uncomfortably 'stagy' and unconvincing, and the 'fair lady' herself succeeds in only half of her performance.
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conversations.value: The tributes from her colleagues, many of them devoted friends, were equally eloquent. Gregory Peck was 'deeply shocked and distressed'; Roger Moore, another star-turned-UNICEF-worker, declared that 'she was that rare thing in Hollywood — a star who genuinely cared about others before herself.' Her friend and fellow UNICEF ambassador Sophia Loren called her a 'great beauty who enriched the lives of millions,' while to Ronald Reagan she was 'a legend, a true great who will be greatly missed'. George Peppard said, simply, 'A silver bell has been silenced.'
  It was a small, simple and private ceremony, conducted by the now eighty-three-year-old Pastor Endiguer, who had married Audrey and Mel Ferrer and christened Luca. The Dutch airline tycoon Martin Schroeder brought a bouquet of white '' tulips, a variety that had been named after her. Those present included Alain Delon, Roger Moore, Doris Brynner, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, executives of UNICEF, and a noticeably grief-stricken Mel Ferrer.
  Sean Ferrer, speaking at the funeral, said, 'Mother believed in love, that it could heal, fix, mend and make everything all right in the end.' Her last thoughts before she slipped peacefully away, he told the mourners, were for the suffering children of Somalia.
  Among the profusion of beautiful floral tributes nestled a simple bouquet which bore the inscription 'From all the world's children.'
  This perhaps summed up, as much as anything could, one aspect of a remarkable person, who had lived a remarkable life.