This is the definitive tribute to the glamor and character of a beloved icon, including rarely published details, photographs and stories about the lasting impact of Audrey Hepburn's remarkable life.
Academy Award-winning actress, fashion icon, ethereal beauty, wife, mother, World War II resistance activist, UNICEF champion- Audrey Hepburn transcended her era and became a global idol whose appeal continues to soar in the twenty-first century.
Packed with beautiful photographs of the star at her most captivating and supplemented with incisive fashion commentary from award-winning designer Jeffrey Banks,Audrey Hepburn: A Beautiful Uncertaintyis a one-of-a-kind exploration of Audrey's glamorous image and remarkable life. Always leading with her heart, Hepburn is shown here fully captured in all her complexity: an often self-doubting but brilliant and genuinely kind woman whose style and activism changed the world.
Slipping behind the scenes of Hollywood's Golden Age, author Tom Santopietro details Audrey's personal and professional life, from her legendary dance partnership with Fred Astaire on the classicFunny Faceto her love affairs with Albert Finney and William Holden.
Throughout, her life and career are juxtaposed with the lasting legacy of her iconic image and unerring fashion sensibility, as she played muse to the brilliant designer Hubert de Givenchy and inspired women from Jacqueline Onassis to Carly Simon.
A gorgeous, full-color celebration of Audrey Hepburn
Tom Santopietrois the author of nine previous books, including
The Sound of Music Story,
The Importance of Being Barbra,
Sinatra in Hollywood,
The Godfather Effect,
WhyTo Kill A Mockingbird
Matters, the
New York TimesEditor's Choice
Considering Doris Day, and, most recently,
The Way We Were: The Making of a Romantic Classic. Over the past thirty years, he has managed three dozen Broadway shows.
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