Ferrer was rumoured to be too controlling, and had been referred to by others as being her " Svengali" – an idea that Hepburn laughed off. William Holden was quoted as saying, "I think Audrey allows Mel to think he influences her." After a 14-year marriage, the couple divorced in 1968. [127] Marx, Andy (13 January 1993). "Hepburn, Taylor get Hersholt". Variety. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014 . Retrieved 23 October 2021. Hepburn played Sister Luke in The Nun's Story (1959), which focuses on the character's struggle to succeed as a nun, alongside co-star Peter Finch. The role produced a third Academy Award nomination for Hepburn, and earned her a second BAFTA Award. A review in Variety reads: "Hepburn has her most demanding film role, and she gives her finest performance", [72] while Henry Hart in Films in Review stated that her performance "will forever silence those who have thought her less an actress than a symbol of the sophisticated child/woman. Her portrayal of Sister Luke is one of the great performances of the screen." [73] Hepburn spent a year researching and working on the role, saying, "I gave more time, energy, and thought to this role than to any of my previous screen performances". [74] Haria, Sonia (4 August 2012). "Beauty Icon: Givenchy's L'Interdit". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017 . Retrieved 26 April 2016.

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AFI's 50 Greatest American Screen Legends". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2013 . Retrieved 10 July 2015. United States president George H. W. Bush presented Hepburn with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences posthumously awarded her the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her contribution to humanity. [110] [111] In 2002, at the United Nations Special Session on Children, UNICEF honoured Hepburn's legacy of humanitarian work by unveiling a statue, "The Spirit of Audrey", at UNICEF's New York headquarters. Her service for children is also recognised through the United States Fund for UNICEF's Audrey Hepburn Society. [112] [113] Personal life and final years [ edit ] Multilingualism [ edit ] Bryant, Kenzie (10 February 2017). "Audrey Hepburn's Oldest Son in Legal Wrangle with Her Children's Fund". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 31 May 2020.

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Although she appeared in no new film releases in 1955, Hepburn received the Golden Globe for World Film Favorite that year. [71] Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, she starred in a series of successful films during the remainder of the decade, including her BAFTA- and Golden Globe-nominated role as Natasha Rostova in War and Peace (1956), an adaptation of the Tolstoy novel set during the Napoleonic wars, starring Henry Fonda and her husband Mel Ferrer. She exhibited her dancing abilities in her debut musical film, Funny Face (1957), wherein Fred Astaire, a fashion photographer, discovers a beatnik bookshop clerk (Hepburn) who, lured by a free trip to Paris, becomes a beautiful model. Hepburn starred in another romantic comedy, Love in the Afternoon (also 1957), alongside Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier. Audrey Hepburn dress". Hello Magazine. 6 December 2006. Archived from the original on 7 December 2006 . Retrieved 16 May 2011. Film in 1954". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Archived from the original on 24 May 2015 . Retrieved 23 May 2015. Rosemary Harris / Marin Mazzie / Terrence McNally / Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company / Jason Michael Webb / Harold Wheeler (2019)Later that year, Hepburn moved to London after accepting a ballet scholarship with Ballet Rambert, which was then based in Notting Hill. [48] [d] She supported herself with part-time work as a model, and dropped "Ruston" from her surname. After she was told by Rambert that despite her talent, her height and weak constitution (the after-effect of wartime malnutrition) would make the status of prima ballerina unattainable, she decided to concentrate on acting. [49] [50] [51] While Ella worked in menial jobs to support them, Hepburn appeared as a chorus girl [52] in the West End musical theatre revues High Button Shoes (1948) at the London Hippodrome, and Cecil Landeau's Sauce Tartare (1949) and Sauce Piquante (1950) at the Cambridge Theatre. Also, in 1950, she worked as a dancer in an exceptionally "ambitious" revue, Summer Nights, at Ciro's London, a prominent nightclub. [53] Ramzi, Lilah (16 December 2020). "A New Audrey Hepburn Documentary Reveals the Life Beyond the Glamour". Vogue. Archived from the original on 21 April 2021 . Retrieved 17 April 2021. Sean Ferrer founded the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund [152] in memory of his mother shortly after her death. The US Fund for UNICEF also founded the Audrey Hepburn Society: the Society hosted annual charity balls for fund raising until Ferrer became involved in lawsuits in the late 2010s on behalf of his mother's estate. [153] [154] Dotti also became patron of the Pseudomyxoma Survivor charity, dedicated to providing support to patients of the rare cancer that was fatal to Hepburn, pseudomyxoma peritonei, [155] and Sean Ferrer became the rare disease ambassador since 2014 and for 2015 on behalf of European Organisation for Rare Diseases. [156] A year after his mother's death in 1993, Ferrer founded the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund (originally named Hollywood for Children Inc.), [157] a charity funded by exhibitions of Audrey Hepburn memorabilia. He directed the charity in cooperation with his half-brother Luca Dotti, and Robert Wolders, his mother's partner, which aimed to continue the humanitarian work of Audrey Hepburn. [158] Ferrer brought the exhibition "Timeless Audrey" on a world tour to raise money for the foundation. [159] He served as Chairman of the Fund before resigning in 2012, turning over the position to Dotti. [160] In 2017, Ferrer was sued by the Fund for alleged self-serving conduct. [160] In October 2017, Ferrer responded by suing the Fund for trademark infringement, claiming that the Fund no longer had the right to use Hepburn's name or likeness. [157] Ferrer's suit against the Fund was dismissed in March 2018 due to the complaint's failure to include Dotti as a defendant. [161] In 2019, the court sided with Ferrer, with the judge ruling there was no merit to the charity's claims it had the independent right to use Audrey Hepburn's name and likeness, or to enter into contracts with third parties without Ferrer's consent. [153] [154] Macintyre, Ben (6 May 2022). "The Colditz PoW Who Saved Audrey Hepburn". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 13 September 2022 . Retrieved 22 October 2022.