Audrey Hepburn: Angel Delight

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Talent…

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… These are the lovely ladies and gorgeous girls of eras gone by whose beauty, ability, electricity and all-round x-appeal deserve celebration and – ahem – salivation here at George’s Journal…

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First up, fittingly, it’s a screen star who’s always been something of a must with me – and I’m certainly not the only one – she’s the epitome of graceful, dignified and delicate beauty, was a comic actress par excellence with buckets full of a pathos and is missed greatly all around the world…

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Name: Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston (Edda van Heemstra)

Nationality: Belgian

Profession: Actress/ Humanitarian

Born: May 4 1929, Ixelles, Belgium (Died: January 20 1993, Tolochenaz, Switzerland)

Height: 5ft 7in

Known for: Roles in Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961), Charade (1963), Paris When It Sizzles (1964), My Fair Lady (1964), How To Steal A Million (1966), Two For The Road (1967), Robin And Marian (1976) and Always (1989)/ Work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador – 1988-93

Strange but true: She attributed her forever slender figure on the malnourishment she suffered as a child hiding from the Nazis in occupied Holland during the Second World War

Peak of fitness: Playing a small guitar, sitting on a fire-escape and singing Moon River in Breakfast At Tiffany’s

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