As opposed to the dreck we have to endure today.
The interview here is ridiculous, but it’s Audrey Hepburn.
I’d forgotten her second husband was nearly kidnapped in Italy in the 1970s.
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As opposed to the dreck we have to endure today.
The interview here is ridiculous, but it’s Audrey Hepburn.
I’d forgotten her second husband was nearly kidnapped in Italy in the 1970s.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | May 2, 2024 10:10 PM |
Is she on Ozempic?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 1, 2024 11:48 PM |
As a rule, I cannot watch one of her films or interviews without then going on to speak to my dog all night in her accent.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 1, 2024 11:56 PM |
So you tell yourself, but the dreck was behind the mic. Dreck is always with us.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 1, 2024 11:59 PM |
What is going on with John's hair?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 2, 2024 12:00 AM |
And those hideous suits!
by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 2, 2024 12:02 AM |
She was onboard the 1989 Star Princess inaugural cruise (as she had christened the ship) and was a remarkable unhealthy mess. I really felt bad for her.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 2, 2024 12:03 AM |
It was the 70s, R5. You should see some of the stuff I wore as a kid and teen during that decade.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 2, 2024 12:23 AM |
I thought it was Suzanne Pleshette in the preview. Time for new glasses.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 2, 2024 12:26 AM |
Who wasn't kidnapped in the 70s in Italy?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 2, 2024 12:33 AM |
Oy, that hair. Looks like a younger version of one of Estelle Getty's wigs.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 2, 2024 12:37 AM |
That hairdo (wig?) wasn't doing her any favors, and seems particularly odd styling for 1976. She's looks painfully thin there.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 2, 2024 12:39 AM |
That was painful to watch. Is she really that shy and uncomfortable?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 2, 2024 12:40 AM |
Ooh you beat me to it with a bitchier (and more apt) hair comment, r10
by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 2, 2024 12:40 AM |
And the fabric design on the chairs!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 2, 2024 12:43 AM |
If you click on r7’s link and scroll to the fashion article, is that Lori Loughlin modeling the cowl neck?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 2, 2024 12:45 AM |
Yep, R15. It is.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 2, 2024 12:47 AM |
When Ed McMahon said Audrey was a sexy lady I cringed.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 2, 2024 12:48 AM |
"Roman Holiday" will never lose its place as the best Rom Com ever. There is no such thing as a perfect ending to a movie but RH comes damn close.
Gregory Peck said that decades later, he and Hepburn were approached about a sequel and they spoke to each other about doing it but for whatever reason, it didn't happen.
I'm glad about that.
The end leaves you knowing that, while they will fall in love with another, still, they'll both die knowing a part of their hearts always belonged to each other.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 2, 2024 12:55 AM |
She was always very thin. She attributed it to the near-starvation she endured during WW2 but I’ve read other rumors that she was just anorexic.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 2, 2024 1:05 AM |
Audrey, with Elizabeth Taylor, at an AIDS benefit in Switzerland in 1991, 18 months before her death.
Audrey was only three years older than Elizabeth, but looks older than that.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 2, 2024 1:16 AM |
R18 One of my favorite movies and they were both so gorgeous in it.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 2, 2024 1:17 AM |
Did she always have bad teeth?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 2, 2024 6:05 AM |
R20 That head of hair on ET is insane!
by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 2, 2024 6:46 AM |
Are we sure that Audrey wasn’t a lesbian? Her face looks like it is peaking out of a very hairy pussy. Maybe her head got stuck in a very cavernous snatch, like Joan Collins’ Grand Canyon.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 2, 2024 6:56 AM |
Maybe you're not well, r24, even if people tried to help you.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 2, 2024 8:16 AM |
So Audrey’s perm was a choice.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 2, 2024 8:58 AM |
Emma Thompson had it right. Twee actress, mumsy. Totally overrated.
Never understood the blind adoration for her.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 2, 2024 10:20 AM |
It was her voice and then her elfin looks. Loved her voice and accent.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 2, 2024 11:42 AM |
When Audrey came on the scene there had had been NO ONE like her. She was a true original. There are not a lot of actresses who one can say that about. The other Hepburn was also a true original.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 2, 2024 12:55 PM |
Audrey Hepburn was the ingenue of the 1950s.
She won an Oscar and a Tony in the same year and was on every magazine cover imaginable.
She wore clothes beautifully and was a photographer’s dream.
What was there not to like?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 2, 2024 1:25 PM |
The only other female guest I recall Johnny in awe of was Sophia Loren.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 2, 2024 1:27 PM |
Wig, R23.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 2, 2024 1:33 PM |
Her face was still very beautiful in OP’s clip. But wow, so incredibly fragile.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 2, 2024 1:33 PM |
Sophia Loren is one helluva gal, so I get it.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 2, 2024 1:34 PM |
Off-Topic: It’s interesting that Johnny Carson was considered the gold standard in guest talk show hosts as he was always about making his guests look good and keeping the vibe positive. Because even people that came after him and admired him, like Dave Letterman, prescribed to pretty much an opposite tact. This just popped into my head because of Ellen losing her show not too long ago.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 2, 2024 1:40 PM |
[quote]When Audrey came on the scene there had had been NO ONE like her. She was a true original.
I've always thought that Audrey and Jean Simmons looked/sounded similar.
The first time I watched ELMER GANTRY, I thought Jean was Audrey.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | May 2, 2024 2:08 PM |
Audrey Hepburn was a European aristocrat. Not exactly your average Hollywood actress of the late 50s to the 60s. She’s the exception, not the rule, and she was seen as such, even then.
A much more appropriate comparison would be, say, Annette Funicello. So in other words, things haven’t changed much at all.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | May 2, 2024 2:20 PM |
I like both Loren and Hepburn but they’re so reserved. I get it. That suits their status.
But for sheer fun as a talk show guest, give me the Gabor sisters or Shelley Winters every time.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | May 2, 2024 4:16 PM |
Audrey Hepburn was Jean Simmons x 1,000,000.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | May 2, 2024 5:17 PM |
Wasn’t Jean Simmons known as “the poor man’s Elizabeth Taylor”?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | May 2, 2024 5:21 PM |
R40 I think that was Joan Collins.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | May 2, 2024 5:28 PM |
When fucking Jean Simmons men would say “It’s a big country!”
by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 2, 2024 5:31 PM |
How did Jean Simmons survive being married to that prick Richard Brooks for twenty years?
by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 2, 2024 5:37 PM |
It's funny how she never faced any backlash for being a homewrecker, not once but twice, while Liz Taylor got plenty. Why is that?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 2, 2024 5:41 PM |
Everything used to be better!
by Anonymous | reply 45 | May 2, 2024 5:41 PM |
Canny self-marketing, r44.
They all lived in Switzerland for the tax breaks. Richard Burton noted in his diaries that when he and Elizabeth received a lot of negative press Audrey would refuse to thank them for her birthday present/flowers.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 2, 2024 5:45 PM |
You don’t need to be old to feel that way, r45, but it doesn’t hurt.
The old maxim is that, at any given time, people will perceive that a thing was better in the past than it is currently.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | May 2, 2024 5:45 PM |
Things were better under the Kaiser!
by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 2, 2024 5:46 PM |
I love her but she's always been horrible at interviews. If you hate them so much don't do them. She spends more energy evading even the most basic questions as she does answering them. Johnny was a master interviewer but it's almost like he'd have a hard time getting her to tell him what she had for lunch. Yesterday.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 2, 2024 5:52 PM |
Audrey scored some nice dick over the years, William Holden, Albert Finney, Ben Gazzara, Robert Wolders, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 2, 2024 5:54 PM |
R11, she was mannered and of very limited range as an actress. Had confirmed and rumored affairs with married men (see link). That's a lot, right there.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 2, 2024 7:05 PM |
^ R11, very sorry. My comment was directed to R30.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | May 2, 2024 7:06 PM |
R27 - Um Emma Thompson is no Audrey Hepburn.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | May 2, 2024 7:45 PM |
Audrey Hepburn died on the same day as Clinton’s Inauguration in January of 1993.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 2, 2024 9:24 PM |
Audrey was prodded by a studio exec to have lunch with Doris Day. After the lunch date, Audrey told the exec never to set them up again. She found Doris to be a narcissistic dullard, who only wanted to talk about herself.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | May 2, 2024 9:52 PM |
R57, I find that really hard to believe. Day was a favorite of James Cagney, who thought she was a highly considerate co-star and an all-around genuine person. Hepburn most likely saw Day as a huge box-office competitor, even though they occupied different spheres.
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