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Audrey Hepburn

A Life of Beautiful Uncertainty

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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 Uncertainty is 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 classic Funny Face to 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.

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      Starred review from February 1, 2025
      Audrey Hepburn was a study in contradictions. Frail yet steely, sophisticated yet approachable, Hepburn's ethereal beauty may have seduced the camera, but it masked her abiding diffidence about her physical attributes and theatrical talents. Perhaps nowhere were these warring traits more evident than in her most acclaimed roles, from the palpably innocent Sister Luke in The Nun's Story to the glamorous Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Voluminous in scope, worshipful in tone, Santopietro's biography of the Hollywood legend is a cradle-to-grave retrospective that explores the roots of Hepburn's underlying self-doubt while celebrating the core values of kindness, empathy, and commitment that informed her acting career and her later work as an indefatigable UNICEF ambassador. A veteran of Broadway management and production, Santopietro treats Hepburn's personal and professional lives with utmost respect, brilliantly positioning her lengthy filmography within the context of her love of fashion, dedication to family, and selfless devotion to international childhood welfare. Augmented by stunning photographs of her most iconic looks, Santopietro's accompanying fashion commentary honors the contributions designers such as Hubert de Givenchy made to her screen success. Truly a star for the ages, Hepburn shines in Santopietro's tribute to her talent, heart, and legacy.

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