Hepburn-Ferrer, Sean (5 April 2005). Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-02479-6. After her uncle's death, Hepburn, Ella, and Miesje left Arnhem to live with her grandfather, Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, in nearby Velp. [10] Around that time Hepburn gave silent dance performances that reportedly raised money for the Dutch resistance effort. [32] It was long believed that she participated in the Dutch resistance itself, [10] but in 2016 the Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein' reported that after extensive research it had not found any evidence of such activities. [33] A 2019 book by Robert Matzen provided evidence that Audrey had supported the resistance by giving "underground concerts" to raise money, delivering the underground newspaper, and taking messages and food to downed Allied flyers hiding in the woodlands north of Velp. [34] She also volunteered at a hospital that was the center of resistance activities in Velp, [34] and her family temporarily hid a British paratrooper in their home during the Battle of Arnhem. [35] [36] In addition to other traumatic events, she witnessed the transportation of Dutch Jews to concentration camps, later stating that "more than once I was at the station seeing trainloads of Jews being transported, seeing all these faces over the top of the wagon. I remember, very sharply, one little boy standing with his parents on the platform, very pale, very blond, wearing a coat that was much too big for him, and he stepped on the train. I was a child observing a child." [37] Crowther, Bosley (20 March 1959). "Delicate Enchantment of 'Green Mansions'; Audrey Hepburn Stars in Role of Rima". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 1 September 2013 . Retrieved 5 February 2017.

Overall, about 90% of her singing was dubbed, despite being promised that most of her vocals would be used. Hepburn's voice remains in one line in "I Could Have Danced All Night", in the first verse of "Just You Wait", and in the entirety of its reprise in addition to sing-talking in parts of "The Rain in Spain" in the finished film. When asked about the dubbing of an actress with such distinctive vocal tones, Hepburn frowned and said, "You could tell, couldn't you? And there was Rex, recording all his songs as he acted ... next time —" She bit her lip to prevent her saying more. [84] She later admitted that she would have never accepted the role knowing that Warner intended to have nearly all of her singing dubbed. Audrey Hepburn: Style icon". BBC News. 4 May 2004. Archived from the original on 27 November 2021 . Retrieved 20 April 2011. Hepburn also returned to the stage in 1954, playing a water nymph who falls in love with a human in the fantasy play Ondine on Broadway. A critic for The New York Times commented that "somehow, Miss Hepburn is able to translate [its intangibles] into the language of the theatre without artfulness or precociousness. She gives a pulsing performance that is all grace and enchantment, disciplined by an instinct for the realities of the stage". Her performance won her the 1954 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play three days after she won the Academy Award for Roman Holiday, making her one of three actresses to receive the Academy and Tony Awards for Best Actress in the same year (the other two are Shirley Booth and Ellen Burstyn). [69] During the production, Hepburn and her co-star Mel Ferrer began a relationship, and were married on 25 September 1954 in Switzerland. [70] Publicity photo for Love in the Afternoon (1957) a b Bryant, Kenzie (10 February 2017). "Audrey Hepburn's Oldest Son in Legal Wrangle with Her Children's Fund". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 31 May 2020. a b Billson, Anne (29 December 2014). "Audrey Hepburn: a new kind of movie star". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015 . Retrieved 23 May 2015.a b "Audrey Is a Hit". Life. 10 December 1951. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023 . Retrieved 24 August 2017. Nirwing, Sandy (26 January 2006). An American in Paris: Audrey Hepburn and the City of Light – A historical analysis of genre cinema & gender roles. GRIN Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-46087-3. In the 1950s, Hepburn narrated two radio programmes for UNICEF, re-telling children's stories of war. [104] In 1989, Hepburn was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF. On her appointment, she stated that she was grateful for receiving international aid after enduring the German occupation as a child, and wanted to show her gratitude to the organisation. [105] 1988–1992 [ edit ] Hepburn receiving UNICEF's International Danny Kaye Award for Children in 1989. Cocozza, Paula (1 July 2015). "Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon review– beautiful, but unrevealing". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015 . Retrieved 10 July 2015.

United States president George H. W. Bush presented Hepburn with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences posthumously awarded her the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her contribution to humanity. [110] [111] In 2002, at the United Nations Special Session on Children, UNICEF honoured Hepburn's legacy of humanitarian work by unveiling a statue, "The Spirit of Audrey", at UNICEF's New York headquarters. Her service for children is also recognised through the United States Fund for UNICEF's Audrey Hepburn Society. [112] [113] Personal life and final years [ edit ] Multilingualism [ edit ] Segers, Yop. "Heemstra, Aarnoud Jan Anne Aleid baron van (1871–1957)". Historici.nl. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013 . Retrieved 23 October 2013.Although she appeared in no new film releases in 1955, Hepburn received the Golden Globe for World Film Favorite that year. [71] Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, she starred in a series of successful films during the remainder of the decade, including her BAFTA- and Golden Globe-nominated role as Natasha Rostova in War and Peace (1956), an adaptation of the Tolstoy novel set during the Napoleonic wars, starring Henry Fonda and her husband Mel Ferrer. She exhibited her dancing abilities in her debut musical film, Funny Face (1957), wherein Fred Astaire, a fashion photographer, discovers a beatnik bookshop clerk (Hepburn) who, lured by a free trip to Paris, becomes a beautiful model. Hepburn starred in another romantic comedy, Love in the Afternoon (also 1957), alongside Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier. NY Times: My Fair Lady". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012 . Retrieved 21 December 2008. Ramzi, Lilah (16 December 2020). "A New Audrey Hepburn Documentary Reveals the Life Beyond the Glamour". Vogue. Archived from the original on 21 April 2021 . Retrieved 17 April 2021.