Who is Audrey Hepburn

After her parents' divorce, she was vacationing with her mother in Arnhem, Holland, when Hitler's army took over the town. It was here that she fell on hard times, suffering from depression and malnutrition. She confessed to eating tulip bulbs and trying to bake grass into bread during the hard days of World War II.

During the war, being English in occupied Holland was not an asset; it could have attracted the attention of the occupying German forces and resulted in confinement or even deportation. After the war, her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, found documents about his ancestors, some of whom bore the name Hepburn. This is when he added it to his name, which caused [his] daughter to ... legally add Hepburn to her name as well, thus Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston.

Because of that past, she turned down a role in the film The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) because, as a young girl in Holland during the war, she had witnessed Nazi soldiers publicly executing people in the streets and herding Jews onto railroad cars to be sent to the death camps. She said that participating in the film would bring back too many painful memories for her.

This is just the cutest site I've seen in a long time - Celebrity Virtual Dress-Up Dolls. I always loved paper dolls and used to actually design my own outfits. Now, I can play online!

Audrey Hepburn was one of the most beautiful women to grace the silver screen and I can't think of anyone who could look quite as stunning in a black top, capri pants, and casual flats. (Just remember her scene with Humphrey Bogart in "Sabrina".)

This site is great fun! You can create outfits, save or email your creation, and even embed the finished image on your site or page. Be sure to stop by and rate this lovely doll.

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