Audrey Hepburn: Beautiful but so much more - did you know this about her:

[Mira]

[bettyellen]

1. I crashed a party she attended once! she danced with Givenchy, her dear friend who dressed her

in many movies as well as real life.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. wow...do tell more

[bettyellen]

12. I got really drunk and we sat at Andy Rooney's table! It was some charity event at my college and

I had a really fearless friend who got the idea to just wear our camera around our neck and lie to security that we worked for a (now defunct) alternative paper. I was barely 17.

Hepburn and Hubert sat together and seemed to be having a delightful time. They got up to waltz early and I think maybe one other couple dared to share the floor. Everyone was just entranced by her. She seemed very happy, just full of life. We were bowled over!

It was actually in the lobby of the main school building and we just snuck in through one of the stairwells. The wait staff was actually the same crew that served in our cafeteria, and they recognized us, and then laughingly brought us a HUGE bottle of champagne. It was not planned, so I was dressed really drab, but we got so loaded we didn't care and danced like crazy fools, banging into Brooke Shields.

There were a few other big fashion people there, but sitting with Andy Rooney and his date who were also trashed, and told us she was an escort, was hilarious. They were fun. After that me and friend cabbed it to a club, and somehow the Russian cab driver liked us so much he pulled over and we did all these bong hits on the way to the Ritz, and he came in with us. There we danced and someone lifted me over their head and spinned a lot! I couldn't handle it and was wobbling in circles, and got kicked out. Ooops.

I am not sure how, but we ended up near the Empire State building, and my friend suggested we play hide and seek at 4 am, in freezing weather, totally toasted. I had the brilliant idea to "hide" in the subway, and somehow ended up getting on it. I was smoking a cigarette on the train and getting off at Times Square (and actually KNEW where I was going- home, to the Bronx!!) when I walked smack into a cop, and he made me stay on the train, while he wrote me a ticket. I crumpled it and smirked, and then looked around and it was past 125th street on the west side of Manhattan. Very far from where I needed to be. I got out as fast as I could, and it was desolate, I went outside and it was really scary, lots of dark abandoned buildings and I had no money. I went back down to the other side and thought about jumping the turnstile. And started to cry. There was a concerned looking guy in the booth, and he called the cops. The cops were nice enough to drive me across town and let me get on the train without paying. I got home fine! Strangely enough, in a few years my brother would be working that precinct, and I met many of the cops he worked with, always wondering if any was one that helped me out.

I am pretty sure that was the drunkest I have ever been! Ah, college.

[Vattel]

14. Great story

[bettyellen]

33. thank you, I enjoyed reminiscing!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. Wow BE, I want to party with you !! That night sounded like a

blast. Think there have been movies with your plot. You need to be a writer (maybe you are?)...You put me right there with you. I got dizzy myself when you told the part about you being lifted up and spun around in the club.

At the risk of people saying EVERYONE looks back and says life was better and simpler when they were younger.... I honestly think it was. My mom and dad used to let us go to NYC on the train all the time - and we were only thirteen! And, amazingly, they would serve us in the bar at Grand Central Station. Nasty "rusty nails" as I remember.

[bettyellen]

29. Glad you asked? I am. Haven't thought about it in years.

Rusty Nails and Tequila sunrises or LI Ice Teas, omg, yes. There was always a place that would serve you. I am kind of bummed about Roseland closing this year. We used to go disco dancing there, and it was 5$ or so, and before I think, it was ballroom dancing and you'd see all the sweet old folk all spiffy and spangly in their formal wear and twirling dresses pour out while we waited in line in our teenaged sexy gear. Wish I had pictures of that. There was a lot of grit and glamour going on side by side back then. Before Disney came in and paid Giuliani to get rid of everyone except for tourists and the retailers.
You should give me a holler when you visit NY, we can see if we can corrupt a cabdriver or something!

[magical thyme]

20. wow! that is the coolest real life story I think I've ever read...

wish I'd been there with you! Sounds like you had an absolute blast!!!!

I'm green with envy, now.

[bettyellen]

32. you flatter me! And I appreciate it…..

having a rough week. So, thanks for saying that.

[PeaceNikki]

23. lol. awesome.

[malaise]

25. A fabulous night indeed

[bettyellen]

31. I remember how CLEVER I thought it was hiding in the subway, oh yes.

I guess the party had to end at some point though.

[JNelson6563]

37. Fun story!

Great memory for you to keep & share! Thanks for doing so!


Julie

[bettyellen]

39. Thanks Julie- and CHEERS!

[rurallib]

2. Off to the Greatest page

There were many celebrities in the arts and in sports who did incredibly heroic things in WWII and never said much.
For that matter my father-in-law went in at 18 and fought 3 years and never spoke of it again.

BTW - John Wayne was little but a poor imitation Ted Williams.

[Cleita]

3. Being she became famous about the time I was a teenager, I did

know those things about her and that she suffered like most Europeans did in that era, starvation and deprivation type suffering that civilians went through during WWII and the aftermath. I don't think that beauty is all she's known for. My DIL who was too young to know her during her movie days knows her as a gardening connoisseur.

[MarianJack]

4. I will ALWAYS K&R the wonderful Audrey Hepburn!

One of the most remarkable women to walk this Earth on solo many levels!

PEACE!

[mountain grammy]

5. K & R for the beautiful Audrey Hepburn. There will never be another..

[sulphurdunn]

6. I fell for her when I was 10,

and have carried a torch for her ever since.

[valerief]

7. Yep. A lot of us older folks know this about her. nt

[ErikJ]

9. Hepburn quote

Posted on DU a while back

[Ilsa]

16. Mother Teresa doesn't compare. nt

[PotatoChip]

42. +1000

[MannyGoldstein]

10. Whatta bout Hedy?

Hedy Lamarr was pretty glamorous...



She also made one of the first soft-porn movies, and was the co-inventor of frequency hopping spread spectrum radio communications, which is the basis for Bluetooth.

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. "That's HEDLEY Lamarr!"

[MannyGoldstein]

18. Truly, the funniest movie ever. nt

[Galileo126]

11. Err...

I'm a Katherine Hepburn fan..."Really I am..."

[randome]

13. I watched 'Charade' a few days ago for the first time in...a long time.

She was great in that one!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[ailsagirl]

15. How beautiful she was-- inside and out

She was in a class by herself.

[magical thyme]

21. I didn't know her father was a Nazi sympathiser...

Sounds like when the apple fell from his tree, she rolled as far away as she could....

[Bluenorthwest]

22. Her own industry celebrated her excellent artistry many times.

5 Oscar nominations, one win for Best Actress, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the AMPAS for her work helping others.
10 Golden Globe nominations, including 3 wins. 5 BAFTA Best British Actress nominations, 3 wins taking the record and a lifetime achievement BAFTA. Two Tony Awards, one for Best Actress in Ondine.
She also won an Emmy and a Grammy but these came after her death for work in her last years.
No one gets that sort of a rack of awards for being pretty. She is remembered as one of the best film actors of all time and a humanitarian with few equals. Even in life she was known for far more than her beauty, great as it was.

[cynatnite]

24. She also spoke 6 languages and she hated the term "Third World"...

She said we are all part of the same world and part of it is suffering. Children suffering is what drove her in her years working for UNICEF. I remember all this very vividly about her.

What a magnificent woman.

[democratisphere]

26. One of the GREATEST WOMEN that ever lived.

Amazing, gracious, caring, giving, beautiful human being!!!

[glinda]

35. And she had a deer for a pet.

[democratisphere]

41. Audrey was just that kind of person.

Thank you for that info!

[glinda]

46. Am a huge fan. I post pics of her on FB about once every two months.

[LittleBlue]

27. I did know that. And she's remembered as pretty for good reason

In my opinion, the most beautiful woman of her era. She changed what we thought of as beautiful and fashionable forever.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

28. This Thread with That Picture absolutely needs This Tune:

always K&R for Audrey Hepburn

[Mira]

30. A perfect tribute and contribution. Thank you! n/t

[stopwastingmymoney]

34. K&R for Audrey

So elegant and real at the same time

I'm named for one of her characters

[Yavin4]

36. Yes. I did know that about her.

That's why I donate to UNICEF.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

38. Actually, I did. nt

[Johnny Noshoes]

40. Another musical tribute

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

[Mira]

45. Thank you. It's so touching! n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

43. She made it cool to be a brunette and beautiful.

Up until then, most film beauties were blondes and redheads.

[PotatoChip]

44. In addition to that,

she was a great actress. I loved her in her role as Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany's.

[Beacool]

47. Actually, yes I did.

Audrey was a wonderful human being.