This makes me really really happy. Why? Audrey Hepburn is my favorite actress of all time. She is a spunky, sophisticated lady and I want to be just like her.
It all started when I decided to sing "I Could Have Danced All Night" from My Fair Lady for Junior Miss. I was told to watch the original movie so that I could get ideas on the character of the song. Well, I had forgotten Audrey Hepburn was in that movie, and after watching several times I fell in love with Eliza Doolittle.
Skip forward to my senior year of high school. For our final project, we had to research a book and present it to the class. I, of course, researched Pygmalion, the play by George Bernard Shaw which My Fair Lady is based on. I showed a clip of the movie in class for all to see.
One of my classmates researched Breakfast at Tiffany's and showed a clip from the movie. It was the ending scene where Holly (Audrey Hepburn) and Paul (George Pappard) are in the cab together before she tries to leave for Brazil. In the scene she decides to dump her cat off on the curb. The cat just happened to look exactly like my cat, and I was already having anxieties about going to college and leaving my cat behind. So needless to say, I see the scene where the cat is standing in the rain alone on the curb and started bawling my eyes out. In my Senior English class. Luckily I had some really good friends in the class who just sat there and made fun of me.
In the next scene, Paul chews out Holly for running away from her problems. He says "You're chicken. You've got no guts. You're too afraid to say life's a fact. People do fall in love! You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage, you built it yourself. [It follows] you wherever you go, because no matter where you run you just end up running into yourself."
He then throws a ring box from Tiffany's into her lap and says "I don't need this anymore." Holly shakily realizes what she's done, puts the ring on her wedding ring finger, and promptly hops out of the cab and runs down the street. She finds Paul at the spot where she dropped off the cat. There's so much to say, so much to apologize for. But she simply says to him...
"Where's the cat?"
In that moment Audrey Hepburn became my hero. She just walked up to the man of her dreams, who JUST proposed to her, and asked "Where's the cat?" I knew we had more in common than I had orginally thought. In my final days of my high school life, I had found my celebrity hero.
Anyway, years later I finally got around to seeing the entire movie. Its a strange movie, but I relate to it so much. It is definitely my all time favorite movie. I've seen lots of Audrey Hepburn's works, and I love her in every single one.
The best part is, not only is she a fashion icon, but she was a woman of integrity. One of my favorite quotes is by her:
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others;
for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness;
and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. -Audrey Hepburn
My first born daughter will my named Audrey. And my other daughters will be named after her character names: Holly, Sabrina, Eliza, etc. Ok, maybe not that extreme! But I definitely like the name Audrey. That one is a keeper. :)
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