HEPBURN, AUDREY TRIPLE FEATURE

My favorite actress - - EVER!

ROMAN HOLIDAY(1953):

A truely excellent movie! This was Audrey's
first major role, and she and Gregory Peck
work off each other perfectly! Maybe not as
good a pairing as Audrie and Cary Grant,
but still a great on screen chemistry! Even if
their age differences were pretty extreme!
And Eddie Arnold was a great third in this!
The scenery was the best possible for the
time period, being set in Rome, a beautiful
city for romance!! Just another wonderful
movie starring the best actress ever!! A+

A review from Amazon.com:

Maybe it doesn't quite live up to its
sterling reputation, and maybe the
leading man and director were slightly
miscast. But who cares? Roman Holiday
is the film that brought Audrey Hepburn
to prominence, and the world movie
audience went weak at the knees. The
endlessly charming Hepburn had her
first starring role in this sweet romance,
playing a European princess on an official
tour through Rome. Frustrated by her
lack of connection to the real world,
she slips away from her protective
handlers and goes on a spree, aided
by a tough-guy news reporter (Gregory
Peck). Director William Wyler, more
at home with such heavy-going,
Oscar-winning classics as The Best Years
of Our Lives and Ben- Hur, doesn't always
keep the champagne bubbles afloat, and
the Peck role would have fit Cary Grant
like a silk glove. But the film is great fun,
the location shooting is irresistible, and
Hepburn embodies an image of chic style
that would rule for the rest of the fifties.
No coincidence: she won an Oscar, and so
did veteran costume designer Edith
Head. --Robert Horton

While not as emotionally investing of a movie
as the other two on this disc, this is
non-the-less a great movie with great actors
in it! Starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey
Bogart and William Holden, which all are
in stellar form in this! This also has a great
supporting cast which includes Nancy Culp
(Love That Bob, Beverly Hillbillys) and John
Williams(as Audrie's chauffeur father), both
of whom are superb!! A really good movie, tho
maybe a little bit lesser than the others! B+

A review from Amazon.com:

Audrey Hepburn is the delightful young Sabrina,
the daughter of a chauffeur who is hopelessly in
love with David Larrabee (William Holden), the
playboy younger son in the rich Long Island
household her father works for. In order
to help her forget her woes, Sabrina is shipped
off to cooking school in Paris. While there, she
befriends a baron who provides a bit of culture--and
the encouragement to snip off her childlike ponytail.
Upon her return to New York, Sabrina is transformed
into a sophisticated woman, and David is entranced
by her. However, his older brother Linus (Humphrey
Bogart) has arranged David's marriage to Elizabeth
Tyson in order to seal a business merger and thus
must steer David away from Sabrina. To do this,
Linus takes on the task of wooing her for himself.
Full of great dialogue ("A woman happy in love,
she burns the souffle; a woman unhappy in love,
she forgets to turn on the oven") and wonderful
performances, this film is a romantic masterpiece.
Also enjoyable is the 1995 remake, starring
Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford. --Jenny Brown

After watching this again for only the second time
ever(hard to believe!), I am shocked that my first
impression was not very positive!! This is a wonderful
movie, with great performances by not only Audrey
and George, but by the whole cast! Mickey Rooney
is almost un-recognizable and very funny as Mr.
Yunioshi! And Patricia Neil is still as beautiful as
always as George's Lady keeper! And the music is
one of the all time great soundtracks ever in a
movie, with Moon River by Henry Mancini being
the main theme throughout the movie! A beautiful
song for a beautiful movie! A+

A review from Amazon.com:

No film better utilizes Audrey Hepburn's flighty
charm and svelte beauty than this romantic adaptation
of Truman Capote's novella. Hepburn's urban sophisticate
Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the
gifts of gentlemen, is a bewitching figure in designer
dresses and costume jewelry. George Peppard is her
upstairs neighbor, a struggling writer and "kept" man
financed by a steely older woman (Patricia Neal).
His growing friendship with the lonely Holly soon
turns to love and threatens the delicate balance of
both of their compromised lives. Taking liberties
with Capote's bittersweet story, director Blake
Edwards and screenwriter George Axelrod turn
New York into a city of lovers and create a poignant
portrait of Holly, a frustrated romantic with a
secret past and a hidden vulnerability. Composer
Henry Mancini earned Oscars for the hit song "Moon
River" and his tastefully romantic score. The only
sour note in the whole film is Mickey Rooney's
demeaning performance as the apartment's Japanese
manager, an offensively overdone stereotype even in
1961. The rest of the film has weathered the decades
well. Edwards's elegant yet light touch, Axelrod's
generous screenplay, and Hepburn's mix of knowing
experience and naivete combine to create one of
the great screen romances and a refined slice of
high society bohemian chic. --Sean Axmaker

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