Product Description

Few stars are as loved as Audrey Hepburn, today as much as ever. Beautiful, delicate, graceful - but always warm and natural - she stole our hearts. She was also brave, working tirelessly for UNICEF in the face of her own failing health. in this moving and heartwarming biography Alexander Walker traces the extraordinary combination of luck and talent that allowed a fragile little girl,who nearly died in Hitler's occupied Europe, to conquer, in just one year, the New York stage and the Hollywood screen. Walker analyses her ascent to power andworld fame and reveals the sadness of her life: two failed marriages, a broken engagement, and the crushing disappointment that occupied her triumph in My FairLady. Most importantly of all, this biography reveals what no one has known until now: the truly terrifying family secret that tore Audrey's childhood apartand kept her forever silent about her parents.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #123590 in Books
• Published on: 1995-08-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

About the Author
Alexander Walker is the author of over twenty books about the cinema and its stars, including bestselling biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Peter Sellers and Audrey Hepburn. He has also written standard works on the coming of the Talkies, a monograph on Stanley Kubrick, and the fullest account to date of the British film industr from 1960 to 1985. He has been the London "Evening Standard's" influential film critic since 1960 and has been named "Critic of the Year" three times in the British Press Awards. A prolific broadcaster on television and radio, he wrote and narrated four series of "Film Star" for the BBC. Alexander Walker was born in Ireland, and educated there, on the Continent and in the United States.

Customer Reviews

Workmanlike...
A workmanlike, but finally unsatisfying, verion of the Audrey Hepburn story. He presents the better know facts of her life, and spices them up a little with several quite unfounded 'titbits'from-the-tabloids.' But there is little else to bring what is in fact a great story to life. No motivations are identified and for the most part this book represents a flat retelling of a well known story.

A lady of grace
this book is a very well written book about the one and only Audrey Hepburn, even though it does take a little while to get into it as the author does carry on a bit it tells us a grate deal about Audrey. the only problem with this book is that you don't get to feel as though you do actually know her as i have found with other books, but it does tell you an awful lot about the actress.