The Web Poetry Corner - Joyce Hemsley - Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
by
Joyce Hemsley
Series of famous
British names:
AUDREY HEPBURN
Beautiful Actress of renown
born May nineteen twenty-nine
died January nineteen ninety-three.
From the age of five, Audrey attended
a Boarding School in England, and after
World War Two, she took dancing lessons
in Amsterdam and in England. She starred
in musicals at the London Hippodrome and
the Cambridge Theatre. Then she became
an Actress, starring in British films
through the early fifties. In nineteen
fifty three she starred with Gregory Peck
in Paramount's Roman Holiday - Director
Billy Wilder...she gained an Academy
Award for Best Actress. It was at this
time she met her life-long friend.
Hubert de Givenchy.
Audrey was always neat and slim,
fashionable, innocent and lovely. Young
women longed to look as neat and trim
and even half as lovely. She set the style.
Hearts to beguile. In nineteen fifty-seven
came the film Funny Face with Fred Astaire
and nineteen sixty-four - My Fair Lady,
with Rex Harrison. Warner Brothers.
Audrey acted with sweetness and grace.
I cannot list all the films, but Audrey
starred in at least thirty-four, extensive
list to be sure. She became Unicef's
Goodwill Ambassador and until this very day
there is an Audrey Hepburn Fund for needy
children of the world. Her awards were many,
for her films and her goodwill work.
And at the end of it all - Screen Actors
Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. Julia
Roberts accepted this on behalf of Audrey.
Goodbye to the cute short hair, cute slim body
and the cuteness of mind of:
The unforgettable, talented and lovely
AUDREY HEPBURN.