Audrey Hepburn

Now Available on DVD Other Editions Own The Centennial Collection Bookmark this on Delicious Print Page Similar to the Paramount Centennial Collection release of Stanley Donen’s visually arresting Funny Face in a dynamite example of the studio’s 1950s highly-expensive but amazingly vivid Vistavision process-- Paramount’s sixth offering in the collection serves up what is arguably Alfred Hitchcock’s most gorgeous work— To Catch a Thief . And intriguingly while both films take place in France and therefore make the most of the VistaVision technology-- To Catch a Thief (which earned a Best Cinematography Oscar), much like Funny Face is best appreciated on a purely aesthetic ... Read Full Story

Fight the Mean Reds With Holly Golightly On 1/13/09 "...she was most frequently associated with the free-spirited, unpredictable and inimitably stylish Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's ... In the movie, when she says, 'I love New York,' you love it for all the magic she herself brings to the mythology of a great melting pot. Blake Edwards---one of the best filmmakers of the last fifty years-- understood this profoundly while making the picture. It's clear by the way he brings Hepburn into the film at the very beginning: an empty, early dawn Fifth Avenue; a single cab; a tall, striking, unmistakable figure fades ... Read Full Story

"Take the Picture, Take the Picture," "Think Pink" & Brush Up on Your Phony Parisian Philosophy As Stanley Donen's "Bizzazz" Filled Musical Arrives on DVD (1/13/09) "He Loves, She Loves." "How Long Has This Been Going On?" Always Audrey An Introduction* from Audrey Hepburn: "... I can easily state that no matter how long the passage of time, or how great the physical distance between us, there is one person whose very name makes me smile in total delight whenever I think of him. And that's Stanley Donen. "Stanley is a master moviemaker. His knowledge of film is boundless, from his clever camera technique ... Read Full Story

Like the girls of our era that idle such movies as The Princess Bride and The Princess Diaries , I would image that girls of the 1950's worshiped Roman Holiday as their Princess movie. Roman Holiday was released in 1953 and stars Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn . Peck, known for such classics as Twelve O'Clock High, Moby Dick, the Guns of Navrone, and the original Cape Fear, plays a journalist covering the news in post-World War II Italy. One evening he runs into a young lady played by Hepburn, most noted for Breakfast at Tiffany's and My Fair Lady, who had been drinking ... Read Full Story

Available in a Deluxe Collectible 2-Disc Set From the Paramount Centennial Collection Own It: Click Here to View Video Clips from the Film On Audrey Hepburn: "That's the element X that people have, or don't have. You can meet somebody and you can be enchanted, and then you photograph them and it's nothing. But she had it. And there will not be another. She exists forever, in her time. You cannot duplicate her, or take her out of her era. ... She started something new, she started something classy. But no actress should be expected to be Audrey Hepburn. That dress by Mr. Givenchy ... Read Full Story