Roman Holiday

1953 USA Black and White 118 Minutes


Audrey HepburnPaolo Carlini + Audrey HepburnAudrey Hepburn + Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck + Audrey Hepburn + Eddie Albert

Audrey Hepburn + Gregory PeckAudrey Hepburn + Gregory Peck + Eddie AlbertAudrey Hepburn + Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck + Audrey Hepburn

Gregory Peck + Hartley PowerAudrey Hepburn

Gregory Peck + Eddie Albert + Audrey Hepburn

 

Audrey Hepburn + Gregory Peck

Trivia

Release date: August 27, 1953

Oscars:
Best Actress ->Audrey Hepburn
Best Costume Design ->Edith Head
Best Writing Motion Picture Story-> Ian McLellan Hunter and Dalton Trumbo

Oscar nominations:
Best Actor ->Eddie Albert
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Best Cinematography
Best Director ->William Wyler
Best Film Editing
Best Picture -> William Wyler
Best Writing, Screenplay -> Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton

The original writer, Dalton Trumbo, was blacklisted as a communist, and therefore could not receive credit for the screenplay. Instead, his friend, Ian McLellan Hunter, took credit for the story and accepted the Oscar. The story credit was corrected to credit Trumbo when the restored edition was released in 2002.

Peck asked the producers that they had better put Hepburn`s name above the title as she was certainly going to win an Oscar.

Bio

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn
I know I have more sex appeal on the tip of my nose than many women in their entire bodies

Remarkable:

Audrey is the English form of the Dutch name Edda.

Born:

May 4, 1929

Born as:

Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston

Died:

January 20, 1993

Audrey was the daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness. She was discovered by French writer Colette , who gave her the lead in Gigi on Broadway (1951). This success led to a starring part opposite Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday (1953).

By the 1960s, Hepburn had outgrown her ingenue image and began playing more sophisticated and worldly characters in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Charade (1963). For My Fair Lady (1964) Audrey had to play a Cockney flower, but many viewers had trouble accepting Hepburn in a role they felt belonged to Julie Andrews, who had created the part on stage.

She became a special ambassador for UNICEF until her death in 1993.

Academy awards

1993 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
1968 Nominated Best Actress for: Wait Until Dark (1967)
1962 Nominated Leading Role for: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
1960 Nominated Leading Role for: The Nun's Story (1959)
1955 Nominated Leading Role for: Sabrina (1954)
1954 Won Oscar Leading Role for: Roman Holiday (1953)

Selected movies:

Books:

Jerry Vermilye -> The Complete Films of Audrey Hepburn (1995)
Alexander Walker -> Audrey: Her Real Story (1994)
Barry Paris -> Audrey Hepburn (1996)