Audrey Hepburn

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Audrey Hepburn and Ben Gazzara in They All Laughed (1981)

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. . . from an envelope full of them that I bought from a seller on eBay a few years ago. Here's a first bunch:









The clippings have no indication of where the pics originally appeared, and some of them are have been clipped without attention to the presence of another photo or photos of Ms. Hepburn on the other side of the sheet. The first pic in the second row is a particularly baroque job of clipping. I suspect that someone (maybe not the person who sold them to me) subscribed to a clipping service, and those services are not known for being very careful about how they clip items. Their most common blunder is clipping the first page of something from a newspaper and not noticing that it's continued on another page.

I did some cropping of my own. The first pic in this bunch seems to be from a full-page ad for what I assume is perfume, since there's a bottle to the lady's left, but since only part of the bottle is visible (I don't have the entire page), and maybe only part of the perfume's name is there (what is visible is "L'Interdit") I didn't see any point in including the non-Audrey part.

The second pic in the second row must be from a supermarket tabloid -- on the opposite side is part of a story, "Giant Squid Attacks Yacht."

I don't know which is odder about the last two pics (the last is a tighter scan of the next-to-last) -- the lady's weird garb and hairdo, or that somebody thought it would be a good idea to pose her with Art Buchwald. (Later: see my P.P.S. below.)

More clippings to come . . .

P.S. I forgot to mention that while the answer to the quiz on the first pic in the second row was not included with the clipping, the answer is probably "Marilyn Monroe." According to Wikipedia, Truman Capote wanted Monroe to play Holly Golightly, but she turned the part down, not wanting to play a prostitute.

P.P.S. The pic with Art Buchwald turns out to be part of a larger spread in a 1959 issue of Harper's Bazaar. Many thanks to Napo for posting it here:

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...2&postcount=76

And I now see that posing her with Buchwald (who was a very funny columnist, by the way -- I'm just struck by the contrast in physical appearance with Ms. Hepburn) was one of the least zany photos in the spread.

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. . . plus a few scans from an odd little magazine titled The People in Vogue. It is much smaller -- width and height, and far, far fewer pages -- than any issue of Vogue I ever noticed, has no date or price on the cover, no copyright info, and may have originally been an insert in an issue of the magazine. It has lots of (unfortunately small) pics of famous people, women and men, from the 1910s to the 1990s, and Audrey Hepburn is on the cover:



The first scan is the cover, the second is a small version of the cover, without type (but with identifying numbers), on the contents page, and the third is the cover pic of the lady, repeated on the inside. I think the date may be when the photo was taken, since some of the photos in the mini-mag are dated the first of the month, while others, like this one, fall on a different day of the month. The other people are Madonna (1992) in red (who, annoyingly, appears inside in a full-page pic, while Audrey only gets the same quarter of a page as on the cover), Cameron Diaz (1997) in, er, white, or is it green? (she also gets a full page -- not as annoying to me -- but her interior photo is a different one), and Mick Jagger (1964), whom I wouldn't have recognized. (Did he have plastic surgery later to look really ugly instead of just homely, as here? Is a moderator going to delete this parenthetical snark?)

The other pics of the lady are more clippings from an envelope of them I bought through eBay a few years ago. Several of them are less than carefully clipped, which makes me think they originated with a clipping service.

The first four scans are all from one page of a magazine which is not identified. The first took up all of that side of the clipped page, and I don't know why the colors are so odd. The photo of Audrey and George Finney (from Two for the Road) and the text were on the opposite side, as was the fourth scan, which is obviously from Wait Until Dark (with Alan Arkin menacing the lady).



Also in the envelope was a clip from TV Guide for a showing of the same movie:



Here's a page, apparently from the March 2003 issue of a magazine called In Style, with tight scans of the two pics on the page:



Now for some photos of unknown origin (though they may have come from the same source as the four scans in the row after the Vogue triplet). I've scanned the descriptions separately from their associated photos:



On the flip side of the above clipping of Audrey dancing was a small portion of another photo (clipping services routinely do this kind of crappy work) of Audrey (I think) descending a staircase, but only the bannister, her left arm, and a sliver of her sweater was visible. Here's the accompanying text:



And here's a very small color pic. On what remains of the opposite side is part of a calendar, year unknown, but it was a year when November 1 fell on a Thursday:



Finally, a pic of the lady, followed by text from the opposite side of the clipping (which looks, once again, like it's from that aforementioned unknown publication):



Barely a sliver of the photo that the text describes survived the clipper's clumsiness, alas. Sorry to hear, too, that the lady had a low sex drive. Might have been the years of malnutrition which she endured while growing up during WWII, which also contributed to her slender (but lovely) build.

There'll be a few more clippings to come . . .

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. . . after these, the envelope is bare.

First, the last of the clippings which seem to be all from the same unknown source, judging from the typeface in the captions. This photo seems to be connected to the caption in the second scan (which does not identify the bearded guy):



And this photo was on the opposite side of the first photo. It's probably just luck that the indiscriminate clipper didn't just leave half or less of the lady visible:



These two photos are on opposite sides of the same clipping:



This photo obviously is connected (not just physically, which it was, though I've scanned it separately) to the explanatory caption which follows:



And once again, here's a photo of the lady which is on the opposite side of the color photo with Ben Gazzara. Most of Richard Lester didn't survive the scissors. Again, I've scanned the caption separately.



That's all from that unknown source. I wonder if it might be the special large-sized trade paperback book about her that People magazine put out shortly after her death. I used to have a copy -- and wish I still did. Now for a newspaper clipping too big to scan, so I've scanned it in bits and pieces. (Sorry for the resultant varying sizes of the type.) For a change, the source is known: the Philadelphia Daily News, June 29, 1979.





And now for a photo which I'm sure has been posted before, though this one, scanned from glossy slick paper, may be higher res. than the others. It seems to be clipped from a film booking catalog for theater owners, from the attached caption (which I've again scanned separately). I wonder when the catalog came out, and a theater could book the movie for $135 or 50% of the profits, if I'm reading what it says accurately? (Very possibly not.)



And here's an ad for Funny Face in some large-paged magazine. Interesting that she gets billing over Fred Astaire. I had to scan it in two takes:




And now for the last clipping, one which a moderator is liable to delete as off-topic. (Later: No longer liable to happen -- see my P.S.) Once you read the caption, you'll know as much about it as I do. That looks like Mel Ferrer (once married to the lady) in a triple exposure, which must have been tricky before Photoshop and similar image-manipulating computer programs existed. However, the lady identified as "Audrey" doesn't look like Audrey Hepburn to me. Or maybe I'm misled by the hairdo. If she isn't Ms. Hepburn, at least that would imply that the cat in the photo bit some other Audrey on the neck.



I know a few people who walk their cats on a leash, but it's uncommon, and this little fuzzball doesn't seem to think much of the idea.

P.S. Actually, that is Audrey walking the cat (sorry to hear that it did bite her). Many thanks to Napo for posting the entire photo sequence, originally in a 1959 issue of Harper Bazaar, from which this photo came. See it here:

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...2&postcount=76

I think I recognized the great Buster Keaton in one of the pics. Funny Face meets the Great Stone Face. Both are absent friends, who are much missed . . .

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Originally Posted by carolaholic

And now for the last clipping, one which a moderator is liable to delete as off-topic. (If you want to keep it, download it quick.) Once you read the caption, you'll know as much about it as I do. That looks like Mel Ferrer (once married to the lady) in a triple exposure, which must have been tricky before Photoshop and similar image-manipulating computer programs. However, the lady identified as "Audrey" doesn't look like Audrey Hepburn to me. Or maybe I'm misled by the hairdo. If she isn't Ms. Hepburn, at least that would imply that the cat in the photo bit some other Audrey on the neck.



I know a few people who walk their cats on a leash, but it's uncommon, and this little fuzzball doesn't seem to think much of the idea.

It's a photo by Richard Avedon in Harper Bazaar, published in 1959. Thanks to the scanner

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