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'Sparkling Audrey, magic Audrey, sublime Audrey, fascinating Audrey. I stop right there because words fail me. Just one more. Eternal Audrey.' Hubert de Givenchy Audrey Hepburn embodied the grace and glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age. From the radiant princess of Roman Holiday to the wistful dreamer of Breakfast at Tiffany's and the spirited flower girl of My Fair Lady, she redefined screen femininity with luminous charm. A lifelong muse to designers such as Hubert de Givenchy and Ralph Lauren, Hepburn became the first post-war film star to achieve global fashion icon status. Yet fame never sat easily with her, and she left Hollywood in the late 1960s to devote herself to her family. In later years, her compassion shone through her work with UNICEF, where she championed children suffering from hunger and poverty with quiet determination. In this affectionate portrait, Sheridan Morley traces Hepburn's journey from her wartime childhood to her death in 1993, celebrating a life of beauty, integrity, and timeless grace.

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Sheridan Morley(1941-2007) was the third generation of a celebrated theatrical family. His father was Robert Morley, the character actor, and his grandmother was Gladys Cooper, in her youth one of the great beauties of her day and a much sought-after actor in Britain and Hollywood. Sheridan was also a cousin of the actress and presenter Joanna Lumley and brother-in-law of the actor Robert Hardy.Morley joined The Times as deputy features editor in 1973, and then Punch in 1975 as drama critic and arts editor, remaining with the magazine until 1989. In the late 1980s, he became a regular arts diarist for The Times and was its TV critic from 1989 to 1990. He worked as drama critic for the Spectator from 1990 to 2001, and after a short period at the New Statesman, he joined the Daily Express in 2004.He married his first wife, Margaret Gudejko, in 1965, and they had three children together. He married his second wife, Ruth Leon, in 1995.He authored a number of books including A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward (1969); Gladys Cooper (1979); The Hollywood Raj (1983), The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven (1985), Odd Man Out: James Mason (1989), Robert: My Father (1993), Oscar Wilde (1976), Elizabeth Taylor: A Celebration (1988), Audrey Hepburn: A Celebration (1993) and Marilyn Monroe (1998). These are now all republished by Dean Street Press.

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