Audrey Hepburn Research Paper

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Audrey is one of Hollywood's greatest style icons.

Audrey Hepburn was born as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, she was born in Brussels Belgium. She spent her younger years in Belgium, Netherlands, and England. During the Second World War she worked as a courier for The Dutch helping them during the war. She was born on the 4th of May 1929. She was born at 48 Rue Keyenveld Ixelles. Her father Joseph Victor Ruston the was British born in Bohemia near Germany. Her mother Anna Ruston was Austrian.
In her younger years she spent a part of her younger years in England attending a boarding school. She studying in Netherlands during World War II, Her mother struggled to support them to survive while the Nazis invaded their country.

After this difficult time the war stopped and she follow interest in dance especially ballet she studied at Arnhem conservatory in Amsterdam and …show more content…

She witnessed Jewish children being removed from their homes into cattle trucks.

“I have memories. More than once I was at the station seeing trainloads of Jews being transported, seeing all these faces over the top of the wagon.” - Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn has starred in a lot of different movies during her career. The most popular movies that is Breakfast at Tiffany’s and My Fair Lady. Breakfast at Tiffany's won 2 Oscars. She played a character called Holly Golightly she was a typically New York City Girl, eating breakfast outside Tiffany & Co on 5th avenue, as she could never afford anything from Tiffany. My Fair Lady was another popular movie starring Audrey Hepburn.
My fair lady is about a working class girl who gets a job as a cleaner her boss Professor Henry decides that He will change and make her into a high Society, he gives her speech lessons to improve her to getting a job. Audrey plays the character called Eliza

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