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Related: About this forumAudrey Hepburn’s 1951 Screen Test For "Roman Holiday" Is Completely Captivating
http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/audrey-hepburns-1951-screen-test-for-roman-holiday-is-compleHeres a short with Edith Head, Hollywoods legendary costume designer. Here, she talks about the detailed process of selecting wardrobe for Roman Holiday, and you also get to see Audrey Hepburns personality test and screen test.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...to the lovely Audrey Hepburn!
PEACE!
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Although I think Hepburn was a marvelous, intelligent actress and humanitarian, I have to consider her rise to popular fame and icon of fashion as a bane to generations of women and girls who followed. Hepburn signaled a sea change in what was considered to be womanly beauty and in MHO, not one for the better. Gone were the natural hips and breasts of the feminine ideal and ushered in was the era of the pubescent or even pre-pubescent feminine body -- an almost frail, androgynous body in transition, rail-thin, waif-like and lacking the visual cues of the mature woman. Holding themselves up to that mirror, it's little wonder that women have ever since starved their bodies into submission and fashion designers were freed to mold clothes for coat hangars rather than women's bodies.
I would extrapolate on this subject but since I'm treading dangerously near the precipice of a rant on fashion and misogyny, I think I'll just make my exit on this subject.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)She was also very slim because she didn't have much food during the war as a child. So that was her body, she didn't starve herself to look that way. And believe it or not, there are a lot of women who look this way naturally, who are slim, don't have all the "visual cues of the mature woman" and are yet, still women. I think it's great that women were given an alternative to the popular body image of that time.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)I said that too many women since have starved themselves to look that way. It's a mold that doesn't fit the vast majority of women but it began a dangerous trend. For a long time after, actresses had to be virtually anorexic to even get roles. To me this evolved from the time when actresses like Leslie Caron and Audrey Hepburn arrived on the scene. Both had a rather fragile, pixie-like appearance, seeming at times more like an androgynous adolescent or pre-pubescent girl. (The American version, Mia Farrow, was a poor imitation.) This was reinforced by the roles they were given -- often the too-young looking, flighty girl as the romantic interest of a much older male, to the point of being creepy. This was the other aspect of what I call the ascending girl in film, the post WWII Hollywood when parts for strong women, older women, leading ladies and character actresses started disappearing faster than ice on a Phoenix sidewalk in July. The de-evolution of women in film may have begun by erasing the outward cues of their sex but was completed when they were effectively struck from films altogether, to be replaced by "buddy films" in which the leads are two men, with women in merely peripheral parts, if at all.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)As beautiful on the outside as she was on the inside.
enigmatic
(15,021 posts)Audrey Airlines:
They also do a number of skits riffing on Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli that are just as good and highly recommended.