Audrey Hepburn or Katherine Hepburn?

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Maybe. A really sexy 12-year-old boy, though.

"don't say anything, hilary. just... go."

my grandfather gave me a bio of her to read - kate remembered. i started but then got sidetracked, but even the first few pages were more entertaining than most audrey hepburn movies.

http://delirium.lejournal.free.fr/Katharine_Hepburn1.jpg

I do prefer Audrey but her character in breakfast at tiffany’s did my head in, no guy would put up with that.

Katherine wins... just

You mean dud or Dutch? ;-) I do know that she could speak Dutch quite well. I think her granny made sure she continued using the language so she didn't forget it. I think she's so lovely. Very ethereal. Like a fragile porcelain angel. But not really sexy. If I remember correctly she said she was so skinny because of the war: the atrocities made her feel guilty of eating (or something along those lines). :-(

it's very telling that so many people prefer audrey.

Very ethereal. Like a fragile porcelain angel

if i wanted one of those, i'd buy it off the home shopping network.

Katherine - knockout ihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KH_40s-10.jpg and better actress. Admired for her confidence
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Katharinehepburn1.jpg
..which got annoying with old age.

Still, Kate.

Audrey wears me down if I see too much of her. Although I like her more in the abstract.

College-Aged Female Finds Unlikely Kindred Spirit In Audrey Hepburn

Catching up, catching up.

I've been listening to the Julie Ruin's Run Fast in the car for a couple of days. My favourite song is "Lookout"--found this video. Could do without the oversized lyrics blocking out all the images.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4id-3mw2hsI

The new doc is not good.

in fact, it is absolutely terrible

I liked it a lot.

Pretty sure I just watched my first-ever Audrey this week (The Children's Hour). Probably not the best intro to her allure but she was quite good in it.

re Audrey - Sabrina, Funny Face, Green Mansions, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Children’s Hour, Charade - she was great in all of them

Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady, and Wait Until Dark are my favorite performances of hers

19 years later, still so embarrassed that i got kate’s name wrong in the thread title

Katharine has the more impressive career by far.

Nothing in common, these two.

I can think of one thing.

They were into threeways and pistachio ice cream

Beat me to it.

Both Katherine and Audrey were slotted into very particular types of roles throughout their careers. How one relates to them is bound to be largely dependent on how one relates to their typical characters, with a small side order of how one relates to their biographies. I happen to relate better to Katherine than Audrey, just as a matter of my personal tastes.

Just because I got to watch and hear her for 90 minutes, I thought the documentary was pretty good. The framing bit with the ballet dancers was quite unnecessary, and they skipped over a few crucial films for some reason: Charade, The Nun's Story, The Children's Hour. (Skipping Bloodline, which played when I was an usher in 1979, a little more understandable.) I didn't know anything about her war experiences, and if I've ever seen Mel Ferrer in a film, I'm drawing a blank. (Like many, I'm sure, I probably always thought she was married to José Ferrer.) I found that guy who swooped in near the end--"Merle Oberon's companion"--a little suspicious, but it seemed like a important relationship in her life. Her time with UNICEF was moving.

Charade is fun. But so is To Have and Have Not.

I see no necessity to choose.

Wait, fuck, did I really just write that? Not To Have and Have Not. African Queen.

also 1956 is the date of my fair lady on stage: the film is 1964

GBS, HG Wells and Dickens were certainly interesting choices for musicals!

i raise you chitty chitty bang bang, dr dolittle and the von trapps

The available clips of Audrey H singing Eliza suggest that she'd have been fine, but this was still very much not how it worked in Hollywood musicals

i found this quote (via quora) from http://www.julieandrewsonline.com/news/1960_news/maccalls_1966.html:

Did you do any special studying before you tackled Eliza?

JA: I ran the original movie with Wendy Hiller* over and over again and bawled every time. I studied cockney with an American professor of phonetics – here I was English, learning cockney from an American! – but I'm not very good at accents. Most of the work, I frankly confess, happened during performances – I didn't know what I was doing until about three months after we opened. Even with all of Moss Hart's help, I had to learn onstage, so to speak, and it's the best way to learn – if you can get away with it!

*(viz PYGMALION, 1938, in which hiller, born cheshire, was apparently first person to say "bloody" in a british film: "not bloody likely!")

mr doolittle in that version is an absolute marvel, disgusting

The available clips of Audrey H singing Eliza suggest that she'd have been fine, but this was still very much not how it worked in Hollywood musicals

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It's worth pointing out too that Jeremy Brett was apparently rather a good singer but they decided not to use his voice and so ruined the best song in the film by shooting him wandering around in the middle distance so you couldn't see his lips move.

Audrey is at her best and worst in Charade, on Amazon now and one of my comfort movies.

Oof -- scanning the thread spoiled it a bit to find out they were actually related, but only distantly. I rather liked the possibility they were identical twins but were in a real life Parent Trap situation.

Anyways, Kate Mulgrew (and Dana Carvey) are always shoe-ins for a Kathere-inactor but who could credibly be Audrey?

Because it's not Jennifer Love Hewitt!
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Tavi Gevinson?

Ariana Grande imo

chan marshall could have summoned the vibe at one time

they tried with Audrey Tatou but it never really took

It's curious how Audrey Hepburn suggests a shorter actress when she actually stood 5'7". Ariana Grande is 5'1" and Tavi Gevinson 5 feet even.

Yes I noticed she was pretty tall in My Fair Lady.

tavi gevinson is a horrible actress, based on the one half season of revived gossip girl I attempted to watch. that disqualifies her completely

but _does it_?

yes

deems was having a chuckle.

the fans of a big movie star have such a powerful attachment to their idol that it requires exceptional acting ability to convincingly impersonate them. it doesn't matter how much or little acting ability the movie star may have had.