Audrey fucking Hepburn

May 12, 2023 10:56 PM

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Actor and Dutch resistance activist Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium. Her parents, a baroness and a banker, were both fascists who personally met with Hitler.
After her father abandoned them, she and her mother moved to the Netherlands, and her mother's views changed when Nazis executed her brother, Otto van Limburg Stirum, in retaliation for resistance activities.
As a child, Hepburn studied ballet, and began to perform recitals to fundraiser for the resistance. The performances were referred to as "zwarte avonden" ("black evenings") as organisers blacked out windows while they took place so they could not be observed from outside. Hepburn described how "Guards were posted outside" to warn of approaching Germans, and how audiences "made not a single sound at the end of [her] performance." And she explained that: "afterwards, money was collected and given to the Dutch Underground."
Hepburn was part of the resistance cell of Dr. Hendrik Visser’t Hooft which, according to his daughters, he proudly recalled to them. Hepburn would help deliver copies of his underground anti-fascist newspaper as a courier: "I stuffed them in my woollen socks in my wooden shoes, got on my bike and delivered them," she later recounted.

Hepburn also told the New York Daily Mirror that her activities included "running around with food" for downed Allied pilots. As an English speaker, she also relayed messages between downed British pilots and the resistance, and according to her son her family sheltered a British pilot who had been shot down. Hepburn also pointed out that many Dutch children "did their little bit to help… Many were much more courageous than I was."

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A beauty in any time period

3 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 1

Legend

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

"It has been a persistent misconception since Audrey came to prominence in the 1950s. Katharine was the daughter of two wealthy Connecticut Americans; Audrey the daughter of Dutch nobility. There is no meeting of family lines." https://fiveminutehistory.com/10-surprising-facts-about-audrey-hepburn/ - For many years I thought the two were related. I recently read that this was not the case.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

The most beautiful human ever, IMO.

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3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Am I missing something? I only see one person. Where's Katharine?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

She was in Hollywood. They are completely unrelated people.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Absolute one of a kind.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

@OP my grandma met her once while they were both in high school, they were doing an indexing of the height/weight of students and my grandma blagged the job of weighing and recording it instead of doing school work... At least that's the family legend

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

She and Jennifer Connelly are two major inspirations for me liking full eyebrows on women. I never cared for super thin or weirdly shaped brows.

3 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Cara Delevinge

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For her film "Sabrina" the designer Givenchy was engaged to do costumes. He was told he would be designing for Miss Hepburn from Hollywood. Imagine his surprise when he opened the door of his atelier expecting Katherine.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Brains. Beauty. Grace and Glamour,

3 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 1

Don’t forget big ass balls. Metaphorically speaking

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

and Antifascism. The total package.

3 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

A face to die for. What a babe she was. ❤️

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

What Hepburn and Audrey get up to is their own business.

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3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Great woman and actress. Like Dolly Parton doesn't really need to be associated with swear words!

3 years ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 6

I clicked the up arrow many times, but it would only register once. :(

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I hope you clicked it an odd number of times. (Just a silly little superstition of mine.)

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

IIRC when her town was liberated British Paras thought their house was held by German soldiers.mThey were about to attack when Audrey stuck her head out the front door & in her best English accent, asked if they would like some tea. "It's all right boys, she's one of us" the leading soldier shouted back.

3 years ago | Likes 130 Dislikes 1

Hope it's true, but, amazing if it is.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Paras you say?

3 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Such an awesome pokemon

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

She was such a legend.

3 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 0

i remember my uncle talking shit about her having a glass eye and eating tulip bulbs during the war...next thing i know i see a slipper flying at fuckin mach 1 and nails him in the head... followed by my grandmother telling him to "shut the fuck up you son of a bitch in trying to watch My Fair Lady"

3 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Your grandma is awesome.

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Glass eye? What?

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Absolutely not. They did well to survive when the German supply lines broke down & they left Dutch civilians to starve

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Of course, I should have said....the German soldiers took what food they could get/steal from the hard pressed Dutch civilians.

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