WEBVTT - Audrey Hepburn: Death of an Icon 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.600 I'm on thirty fourth Street in Manhattan, outside Macy's at 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.240 Harold Square. I worked here more than twenty five years ago, 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.160 and on one faithful day as a twenty three year old, 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.280 I came face to face with bona fide old time 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:22.080 Hollywood stardom, sort of face to face. Let's go inside. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.560 Macy's was my first job. When I arrived in New York. 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.479 I worked behind the counter as a fragrant specialist for Channel. 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.080 I was not a spritzer. Spritzer's were the male models 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.519 in front of the counter debait to lure customers so 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:42.479 that I could dazzle them with my knowledge of the 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:49.920 product line. Can I help you, ma'am? H Channel number nineteen. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.840 You do know who wears number twenty two? The Queen Mother. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.000 I hear she smells great. You're a French teacher, Well 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.160 you have no choice. You have to wear Chanelle number five, 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:03.040 Coco or the Divarsay looking to get her groove back. Yes, 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.600 it's an ou de toilette. No, it's not literally toilet water. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.120 Most people run screaming when they see anybody standing there 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.840 with a fragrance bottle, and they didn't when they saw you. 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:17.800 That's my former supervisor Javen Bunch. God, I cannot believe this. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.880 In that man shouting in disbelief is salesman Park Salons 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.760 and my former colleague Raymond Ramirez, and I've been wishing 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.959 to know since nineteen eighty eight. You were like the 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:34.240 cal Ripken of Chanel at Macy's Baseball Reverence. So one 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:39.160 of the things I remember is that occasionally celebrity stars 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.160 would walk through. I got to see Share the opera 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.600 diva Jess Norman, before you is Elizabeth Taylor. I got 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.520 to see Lena Horn. But for me, the one truly 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.360 magical moment took place in April of nineteen ninety two 0:01:53.720 --> 0:02:01.240 during the annual Flower Show. I was right behind the counter, 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.840 yes right, yes, when when she and by she I 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:16.240 mean Audrey Hepburn walked floated by my counter. Yes, Audrey Hepburn. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:21.880 I will cherish my visit here in memory as long 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.519 as I live. When I say she floated by, I'm 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:29.280 not just talking about her impossibly perfect posture, which indeed 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.400 made it seem like she was being pulled by a string. 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.919 It was more than that. I've met a lot of stars, 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:40.120 and most of them kind of disappoint She didn't more 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:46.480 than gracefulness. She exuded grace. I do remember that day. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.320 What do you remember, Oh my god, I remember that, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:53.960 the excitement, I remember the sack excitement. Sure, but the 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.880 floor became very quiet when she floated through, like the 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.519 world came to a stop. There was this reverence among 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.200 everybody on the floor. No one would have tried to 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.520 get that right. And that's a difference too. Even if 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.080 selfie's existed a smartphones, you never would have thought to 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.120 like wrap your arm around her and put your shove 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:13.560 your hand in front of her face. He wouldn't go 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.520 near miss Heathburn. And that's who she would have been 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.519 more than a quarter century after her passing. Yes, it's 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.480 been that long. The image of Hepburn in a black 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:33.799 dress and sunglasses having breakfast outside Tiffany's is as identifiable 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.600 as Marilyn Monroe standing above a subway grate or James 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.480 Dean in his red jacket. But our attachment to Audrey 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:47.880 feels special, more intimate. Let's find out why. Along the way, 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.960 I'll take you to some unusual places and we'll cross 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:55.240 paths or some unexpected people, like say a former president 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.000 of the United States. Were you aware that the day 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:04.520 of your inauguration, Audrey Hepburn died. No, you didn't know that. No, 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:17.640 I'm Mo Rocca, and this is mobituaries. This mobid the 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:25.040 timeless Audrey Hepburn January twentieth, nineteen ninety three, Death of 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:45.320 an icon. When I started on this podcast, I kind 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.320 of made a promise to myself that I wouldn't get 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.760 too gushy or hagiographic about any of the people I 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.200 was profiling. But I may have to make an exception 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.640 because we're talking about Audrey Hepburn. This episode is going 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.520 to be a little unconventional, more a series of vignettes 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.800 than a womb to tomb biography. Now, Like I said 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.839 at the beginning, the connection to Audrey is personal for people. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.520 One day, not too long ago, I was feeling especially reflective, 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.760 and so I tweeted, Because what's the point of reflecting 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.920 if you don't let your followers know it. I went 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.839 ahead and tweeted, how did we drift so far from 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:27.840 Audrey Hepburn? Can we ever get back? Quite The response? 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:33.360 One person answered, no way, there is no comparison. Another wrote, 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:43.080 she was not of this world wer than an I'm 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.960 than you in style she's now been gone twenty five years. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:53.360 She's become a legend. Sean Hepburn Ferrer is Audrey Hepburn's 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:57.160 older son from her first marriage to actor Melfarrere. Audrey 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:01.520 Hepburn is not the movie star from Hollywood. Audrey Hepburn 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.320 is the young girl from across the landing who puts 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.760 on a little black dress and goes out into the world. 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:12.160 And she represents us, not them, and we're rooting for her, 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.440 and we do root for her. Somehow she manages to 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:22.680 be both aspirational and totally accessible, whether she's the chauffeur's 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.640 daughter who dazzles the industry tycoon and his brother in 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.880 Sabrina or Sabrina or Sabrina, Where have You've been? On 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:34.880 My Life? Right over the garage? Eliza Doolittle in My 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.720 Fair Lady. The difference between a lady and a fogle 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.279 is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. Or 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.400 my personal favorite, the bohemian bookworm turned fashion model in 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.359 Funny Face? How could I be a model? I have 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.680 no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny. No, 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.560 she wasn't a bombshell like Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.000 but what may have seemed funny to her was considered 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:04.240 an ideal to many. Oh God, I didn't think I 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.560 was ever going to look like anyone in a movie. 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.480 But of course when I saw a Funny Face with 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:14.360 Audrey Hepfron, I definitely wished I looked like her. In 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.160 twenty eleven, I interviewed the late great wit Nora Ephron. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.040 She wrote, when Harry met Sally and directed Sleepless in Seattle, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.160 and had I known we were going to talk about this, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.160 I would be wearing right now my black turtleneck sweater, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.520 which almost looks like the one she wore in Funny Face. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.000 Nora went on to tell me this terrific story. When 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.720 she was sixteen, she visited Edith Head, the great costume 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.520 designer of Hollywood's Golden Age, and Edith Head then took 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:50.200 me to see her famous dressing room, which had thirty 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:54.360 six panels of mirror for every ten degrees. It was 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:59.080 a completely circular room, and she said that there was 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.720 only one person who can stand in that room and 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.160 look good in all thirty six mirrors. Then it was 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.640 Audrey Hepburn. That is great. If I were a geometry teacher. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.880 I would use that. Yes, there was no one like 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:19.280 her ever. The charm was who she was. I've never 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.680 seen anything like it. It's striking that Nora Ephron, who 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:28.840 had perfectly articulated opinions about pretty much everything, had trouble 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.480 describing what it was about Audrey hepburn that was so captivating. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:37.480 Ditto the normally unflappable Johnny Carson. Audrey appeared on the 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.480 Tonight Show in nineteen seventy six, and it's kind of 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.520 wild watching Carson in his sidekick. Ed McMahon reduced to 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.520 anxious schoolboys as they get ready to welcome her onto 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.520 the show the first time she's been on the show. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.679 And would you believe I'm a little nervous really what 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.400 I had not to put you now all? I mean, 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.480 I would believe that because I would feel the sandwich. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:03.920 She's kind of very, very special, special. She's delicate, thank you. Yes, 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.240 that's the word I was going to use, delicate, delicate? 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.640 Would you walk in place, miss Audrey Hepburnie? And as 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.520 I always like to say, I never really saw anyone 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.920 truly misbehave in front of her. How do you think 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.160 she felt about being called delicate and She must have 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.120 smirked because she knew that she was not because of 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:30.800 what she lived through. And Audrey Hepburn lived through a lot. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.520 Maybe the reason she pulled off all those Cinderella rolls 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.040 so beautifully was that her own early life was something 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.080 of a fairy tale. And I don't mean the Disney kind. 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:45.800 I'm talking grim. I never led what people sink is 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.160 this glamorous life. I've always been me. I've always been 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.400 aware of what goes on in the world. And I 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.040 suddenly grew up in a war ravaged country, and I've 0:09:56.040 --> 0:10:00.599 always known, you know that I was privileged and NATO 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.680 always seeing suffering, known about it. And that hasn't changed. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:17.960 So it's still the same old old. Audrey Hepburn was 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:22.240 born in Brussels, Belgium, on May fourth, nineteen twenty nine. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.600 Her father was a banker and her mother a Dutch aristocrat. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.960 She spent some of her youth in the UK, where 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.839 she trained as a dancer and where her parents were 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:36.120 supporters of the Fascist movement. After her father abandoned the 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.760 family and as war loomed, Audrey moved with her mother 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:46.200 to neutral Holland. Soon after the Nazis invaded this is 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:51.160 the Columbia Broadcasting System. Hipler added another to his bag 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.679 of small nations today, the fifth and fourteen months, when 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.480 the Dutch Army laid down its arms everywhere except in 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.520 the extreme southwestern part of the country. In spite of 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.559 her parents pre war politics, Audrey, as a young teenager, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.280 did what she could to help the resistance, like raising 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:13.080 funds through secret dance performances. The war was a lasting 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:17.760 trauma for her, as her hometown of Arnham became a battlefield. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:23.479 As reported here by Walter Cronkite, the tragedy a resupply 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:28.360 now bassets Arnham brigades protecting landing zones are under withering 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.800 German attack. Hepburn talked about her wartime experience during her 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.800 American television debut in nineteen fifty one on a show 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.480 called We the People. She was twenty two years old, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.520 Ladies and gentlemen, telling you her own story. Broadway's latest star, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.280 Audrey Hepburn. It's her first time on Broadway. She's starring 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.199 in a play called Gigi, the precursor to the musical, 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.520 and she's understandably excited. This is a wonderful Christmas for me. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.760 Irreculusly I'm in New York a Broadway. But then the 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:04.240 own shifts as Hepburn begins to reenact what happened to 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.600 her during the war. The Christmas I want to tell 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:11.600 you about is the one that took place here Arnum Holland, 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:17.000 seven years ago. It's pretty surreal. Hepburn is basically playing 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.280 herself as a fifteen year old. She talks about how 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.319 her uncle was executed by the Nazis and how her 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.800 family nearly starved. And there was the morning of December 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.200 twenty fourth when finally my aunt told us there wasn't 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.960 a scrap of food left in the house. Well, I'd 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.960 heard one could sleep and forget hunger. Perhaps I could 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:41.320 see ball through Christmas. I try, But there's a Christmas 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:46.560 miracle when the Resistance sends a delivery ten potatoes, the 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.360 most wonderful and most beautiful thing I ever saw. It 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.600 may sound a bit melodramatic to you, but ten potatoes 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:58.200 would have been a prize. Hepburn suffered severe malnourishment during 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.400 what was known as the Dutch Famine. Under German occupation. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.360 Much of the populace had reached the starvation level. The 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:09.440 Nazis blocked the food supply to over four million civilians. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.959 More than twenty thousand died the lack of fulgum's day 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:17.600 after day after day, and it's a long torture. Luca 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.240 Dotty is Hepburn's younger son from her second marriage to 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.680 Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti. He says that during the war, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.160 Audrey and her family were so desperate for food they 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.520 had to make flower out of tulip bulbs. By the 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:37.000 time Holland was liberated, she weighed only eighty eight pounds. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.680 Did that stress stay with her for the rest of 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:44.120 her life? Obviously yes, but she he did very well. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.160 All her life was a search of stability. That's why 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:52.000 home it was very important. Luca wrote a book a 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.360 few years back about their home life and her favorite recipes, 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.800 a surprise best seller times and times over. People were 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.640 surprised that my mother who actually they were surprised by 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.240 the fact that she actually atees. I think Luca's half 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.480 choking here a nod to the speculation that his mother, 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.640 who was very thin, may have had an eating disorder. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.959 But Luca swears by her love of pasta and chocolate, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.840 which she associated with the Allied liberation of Holland. My 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.320 mother was then a survivor, and when you are you 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.920 always have this duality. You know, you're happy you're alive, 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.960 but then you have this sense of guilts because the 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:36.520 person next door didn't make it. And for Hepburn, one 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.480 of those people, while not a literal next door neighbor, 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:47.720 was another Dutch girl. Audrey Hepburn felt a special connection 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.640 to someone you wouldn't necessarily expect. Are you speaking of 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.280 An Frank. I'm speaking of An Frank. You have an 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.640 affinity for that story, don't you. I do in a 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:02.360 way because we both lived through the same war, exactly 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.320 the same age. I was born, the same year Anne 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.880 Frank was born. That's Audrey Hepburn speaking to CBS in 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.280 nineteen eighty nine. But she became acquainted with the story 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:16.240 of Anne Frank far earlier, earlier than almost anyone. I 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:20.800 read the diary in Dutch in galiform when it was 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:25.200 still being edited, and it was one of the most 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:29.240 devastating experiences I've ever had, because more than just reading 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.960 a book, it was like having the whole war played 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:39.840 back to me. She obviously was locked up inside. I 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.160 was outside, and here was somebody who had been able 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.000 to put on paper everything I'd felt during those years, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.920 and was it destroyed me. I must saying it has 0:15:49.960 --> 0:16:00.400 stayed an extremely emotional experience for me. Luca calls mother 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.000 and Anne Frank soul sisters. And I had no idea 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.880 that Otto Frank, Anne's father actually wanted Hepburn to play 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.800 his daughter on screen. He even visited her home in 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.920 Switzerland to try to persuade her. There's this striking photo 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.920 of Hepburn, Otto Frank and his second wife posing outside 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.400 Hepburn's home. But she said no to the role. Why 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.920 did she turn it down because it was much too 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.680 close to what she lived through. She thought he would 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.480 kill her. She actually believed that it would somehow, you know, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.120 kill her to do it, because she felt so close 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:37.840 to her and she was crushed that she made it 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.920 and Frank didn't. Both her sons talked to me about 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.240 the lifelong impact of the war on their mother. My 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.600 mother once said, you know, if I get through this alive, 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.640 I will never ever complain anymore. And this is something 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.040 she actually did. My mother was never complaining, even in 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:58.040 the worst situations, and I think that this is one 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.760 of the reasons why she wanted to do then, is 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:05.000 that she remembered so vividly herself and her emotions as 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.159 a little girl and living through the war, and so's 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.840 there's this empathy thing going on. Long before Angelina, there 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.199 was Audrey, traveling the globe in the nineteen eighties and 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:21.560 nineties raising awareness about the world's poorest, actively lobbying governments 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.800 to help children in need. While she appeared in a 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.000 few films here and there, it was her charitable work 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.800 that defined her later years as a good will ambassador 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.400 for Uni Seth. She really was one of the world's 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:39.280 most prominent celebrity humanitarians. She never forgot the relief that 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.840 came at the end of the war. Is there a 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.720 point at which our well of compassion might run dry? 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:50.760 Do you think never? I don't think that's It's not 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.080 in human nature. Giving is and giving is life living. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.320 I mean, if you stopped wanting to give, I think 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:06.120 it's nothing more to live for. The darkness of her 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.840 wartime experience may seem like the polar opposite of the 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:14.119 light she emits on screen. And yet I'm wondering if 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:21.359 this combination of yearning and gratitude is what still draws 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.000 us today, because those things really seem to show up 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.240 on screen, and it did show. It did show through 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:32.760 her eyes, it did show in her genuinity and simplicity, 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.440 and people realize it's true. So it's very hard to define, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:42.280 but you define it very well. After talking with Luca 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.359 and Sean and learning what her mother went through, I 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.000 went back and rewatched some of her movies and now 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:53.520 I see her story in those performances as the wound, 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:57.000 did Holly go lightly looking for a better life? I mean, 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.919 that's horrible. Suddenly you're afraid, you don't know what you're 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.800 Freda as Princess Anne, who feels a genuine joy on 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:11.280 her Roman holiday and decide caffine looking shop windows, look 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.399 in the rain. It's no coincidence that in the screen 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.640 test that launched her. You can watch it yourself, it's 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:26.760 on YouTube, she's talking about the war, the world, the bed, 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.399 and then we weren't going to leave this out. There's 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:35.120 wait until Dark. Audrey Hepburn the role you're going to 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:40.040 remember whenever you're alone. Hepburn plays a blind woman who 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:44.000 is terrorized inside her home. Co star Alan Arkin plays 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:48.159 her tormentor and supposedly hated doing the tormenting I mean, 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.679 who wants it to be mean to Audrey Eppburn. The 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:55.439 scenes were intense, and Audrey, quite possibly channeling her wartime experience, 0:19:55.880 --> 0:20:01.760 endures the struggle and survives. Listen. There were plenty of 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.000 other talented actresses in the nineteen fifties and sixties, and 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.200 they were beautiful too. Some of them were supposed to 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:12.480 be the next Audrey Hepburn, Millie Perkins, Maggie McNamara, Susan Strasburg, 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:18.000 but they hadn't lived through what Audrey lived through. Peter Bogdanovitch, 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:22.160 who directed Hepburn, summed up perfectly when he called her 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:30.639 an iron butterfly. All this may go some way towards 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.960 explaining Audrey Hepburn's hold on us, but I think there's 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:38.880 more to the story. For that, we'll head to where else, Japan. 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.879 But first we've made clear there were no other Audrey Hepburn's, 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.240 but there was one other, very famous Hepburn. So let's 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:53.119 take a moment to settle something. Audrey Hepburn is not 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:57.080 Katherine Hepburn. It reminds me of that disambiguation alert that 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.600 you get on Wikipedia or Google. You know, did you 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.440 mean now if you are one of those people who 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.320 confuses Katherine with Audrey, you probably stopped listening to me 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:13.680 ten minutes ago. Otherwise, it's never too late to disambiguate. 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:21.119 Oh we're going to talk about me. Good. Are they related? No, 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.200 they are not sisters. They are not even third cousins. 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:28.840 Who was older Katherine by twenty two years? But who 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.920 wore the pants? Well they both did, and quite well, 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.480 I should add. Then there are the very distinctive Hepburn's 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:39.160 speech patterns. Guess who's coming to dinner. If you've never 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:44.040 heard Katherine's mid Atlantic affect, you've probably heard Martin Short 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.720 doing Katherine Hepburn's mid Atlantic affect. Well, that kind of 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:52.160 talk will get you. No, I missed out. Now, Audrey's 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.560 accent was always a little harder to place. Did I 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.720 tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am? I 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:02.159 guess it was a British, Dutch, American bland. You know, 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:05.040 I'd just like to hear her say things. Why didn't 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:09.160 you say something, Sarah dipity right? Suddenly, not only would 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:10.879 they not be playing scrabble, it would also not be 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:15.600 playing by cheesy chicken stock plugs. The Journey of Nattigan 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:19.520 I'm having much too much fun. We hope you are 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:35.399 to stay tuned for more Audrey after this. Just before 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:38.399 my stint working at Macy's, I was living in Japan, 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:42.439 where I studied kabuki. Yes really, I taught English on 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.520 the side. Because it was the early nineties, I had 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:46.600 no other income, and a cup of coffee in Tokyo 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:50.200 costs about twelve dollars. One of my students, a very 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.280 nice woman named Ritzko, asked me out to a movie. 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:55.600 It may have been a date, I still don't know. 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:59.480 We ended up going to an Audrey Hepburn film festival. 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:03.360 We saw How to Steal a Million co starring Peter O'Toole. 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:09.679 You went us in a big time paper heist. A 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:12.920 life sized cardboard cut out of Audrey greeted us at 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:15.960 the festival Entrance. Fans post for pictures next to it. 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:18.879 Now we've talked about the personal attachment a lot of 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:22.880 fans have for her. Well, in Japan, the Audrey love 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:27.200 is deep. There's this famous all female theater troupe there 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:34.480 called Takaraska. They staged a musical version of Roman Holidays. 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:42.240 And get this, Hepburn was ranked above Gandhi in a 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:46.159 Japanese poll on the most well liked historical figures. What 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:49.560 is the deal with your mother and Japan? The connection? 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:54.119 It's intense, It's very intense. Little by little I understood 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:58.200 there was a sincere devotion. There's no other word for it, 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:01.040 and Luca would know. He told me that it was 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:04.879 through Japanese fan mail and small tokens like origami that 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:08.600 he first began to grasp his mother's fame. During his 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:12.479 childhood in Rome, he would watch Japanese tourists trying to 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:17.520 follow in his mother's film star footsteps. Audrey Hepburn now 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:20.840 welcomes you to Rome as the captive princess who goes 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:23.000 out on the town to have some fun. And they 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:28.240 came to Rome to retrace the Roman Holiday, every scene 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:30.440 you know, and the vise by and the ice great 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:33.879 and the fountain and this sent deats in case you 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:36.760 haven't seen Roman Holiday, it's the movie that won Hepburn 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:40.760 her oscar. She plays Princess Anne, who's visiting Rome on 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:43.560 a royal tour and ends up playing hooky for the 0:24:43.640 --> 0:24:46.719 day while pretending to be a commoner. She falls in 0:24:46.760 --> 0:24:50.080 love with an American journalist played by Gregory Peck I 0:24:50.119 --> 0:24:54.000 could do some things. I've always wanted to blake what oh, 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:57.199 you can't imagine. I like to just whatever. I like. 0:24:57.880 --> 0:25:05.240 Holiday long. When the Japanese saw Roman Holiday, it was 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:09.560 love at first sight. It was nineteen fifty three, the 0:25:09.600 --> 0:25:12.679 war was still a recent memory, and American culture was 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:16.520 really just starting to take root in Japan. The Japanese 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:19.439 connection to the film may have something to do with 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:24.360 the importance of duty. You see spoiler alert, Princess Anne 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:28.359 tearfully leaves her true love to return to her royal world, 0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:31.960 not a Hollywood ending. I have to leave you now. 0:25:34.480 --> 0:25:40.960 I'm going to that corner. That done. You stay in 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:46.080 the gun drive away. It was very understandable for Japanese. 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:49.560 Taki Kato lives in Japan and was a young girl 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:53.600 when Roman Holiday premiered, But Order Helper we could identify 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:59.640 with how they say so charming, so natural for us, 0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:04.200 was so cute, and the Japanese tend to like someone 0:26:04.280 --> 0:26:09.480 who's cute. And apparently the Japanese found Hepburn's pixie haircut 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:12.960 cuter than Hello Kitty. Hepburn talked about it in a 0:26:13.040 --> 0:26:16.280 Dutch TV interview in nineteen eighty eight, and actually it 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:19.560 caused a bit of a fjor, especially in Japan, with 0:26:19.640 --> 0:26:23.720 the film was an enormous success, still is today, because 0:26:23.960 --> 0:26:27.000 they're all girls have very long hair and it was 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:29.880 part of the tradition and they'll cut off their hair, 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:35.600 and I was held responsible. Yes, that's very true. Taki 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:38.600 went on to become a show business coordinator in Tokyo. 0:26:39.000 --> 0:26:41.600 She worked with a lot of big names, Frank Snatche, 0:26:42.080 --> 0:26:46.440 Harry Barafonte, Ringosta, and as you may have guessed, miss 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:50.160 Ldre Hepburn. In a surprise move, Hepburn left Hollywood when 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:52.200 she was still very much in demand in the late 0:26:52.280 --> 0:26:56.080 nineteen sixties to live abroad and focus on motherhood. But 0:26:56.160 --> 0:26:59.280 in nineteen seventy one, Taki helped negotiate to get her 0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:03.240 back in of the camera, this time for Japanese commercials. 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:06.919 It's that lost in translation thing where Americans appeared in 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:10.040 ads that were never broadcast in the US, which was 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:15.040 very very sensational Hinchapan, of course, and the commercials was 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:22.800 very fashionable. Incidentally, she was advertising high end wigs. But 0:27:22.920 --> 0:27:26.520 it wasn't until nineteen eighty three that Audrey Hepburn actually 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:30.440 went to Japan. The occasion a fashion show for her 0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:34.640 dear friend and designer Hubert de Givanshi. Quick side note, 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:38.919 The Givanschi fashion show in funny Face is a magical sequence. 0:27:40.040 --> 0:27:43.320 When Hepburn landed in Tokyo, it was like Princess Anne 0:27:43.320 --> 0:27:48.080 from Roman Holiday had finally arrived. Hepburn was naturally exhausted 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:50.520