While so many young girls aspire to be the next Kim Kardashian or Kylie Jenner, iconic Hollywood ladies are simply forgotten. But one leading lady that can never truly be gone, is Audrey Hepburn. This spunky, soft toned “it” girl was not only a classy figure that young girls could look up too, but also an award winning actress and a fashion icon.
Here are 4 Hepburn films that made the world fall in love with her (and she was able to do it with her clothes on). Before you stalk the Kardashians in Instagram, check out these films and see what a little bit of class and personality can do for a career. After all, it was Audrey who said, “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”
1. Roman Holiday
“Roman Holiday” was considered Hepburn’s break out role. Starring along side Gregory Peck, Hepburn played Princess Ann, a sheltered noble longing for a bit of adventure. After escaping her guardians in Rome, she encounters an American journalist, who takes care of her and shows her around Rome. After discovering who she really is, he conceals her identity and protects her from scandal (which is hard for a journalist) because he has fallen in love with her. “I’ve never been alone with a man before, even with my dress on. With my dress off, it’s MOST unusual.”
2. Sabrina
When the young Sabrina falls in love with the youngest Larrabee son David, a well-known and wealthy playboy of Long Island, the family must intervene because she is merely a chauffeur’s daughter. Older brother Linus Larrabee takes it upon himself to spoil her with dates, dinners and tricks to lead her away from David and his intent is to send her back to Paris, but ends up falling for the young woman himself. If you’re a young woman looking for a classic film with accents and class, charm, Paris, and Humphrey Bogart, “Sabrina” is the film for you, after all, “Paris is always a good idea.”
3. My Fair Lady
Based off the hit West End play, “My Fair Lady” Hepburn stars along Rex Harrison as Eliza Doolittle. When Professor Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can pass anyone off as a noble of high London society, a foul mouthed, poor and stubborn Eliza Doolittle is chosen for the wager. As a professor of phonetics, he teaches the snarled mouth Doolittle to be a proper young lady and after all his snobbish, bolstering, banter, the two form an unlikely bond that’s far more than love. This wacky, hilarious comedy revolves around two stubborn egos constantly at war, “Shall we ask this baggage to sit down or shall we just throw her out of the window?”
4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Known as her iconic role, Hepburn plays Miss Holly Golightly, a woman in constant search of a wealthy man to set her up for life. But after her new neighbor Paul moves in, who she calls Fred because of her brother (long story), she is slowly shifting her oddball ways and gives in to a much different kind of romance. This New York based film has made many women flock to the streets wearing a black dress and pearls, spending their mornings at the one and only New York Tiffany’s store. “Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany’s. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that’d make me feel like Tiffany’s, then – then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name!”
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