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100-658: Hideko Mizuno ( 水野英子 , Mizuno Hideko , born 29 October 1939 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi , Japan ) is one of the first successful female Japanese shōjo manga artists . She was an assistant of Osamu Tezuka staying in Tokiwa-sō . She made her professional debut in 1955 with Akakke Kōma Pony , a Western story with a tomboy heroine. She became a prominent shōjo artist in the 1960s and 1970s, starting with White Troika , which serialized in Margaret in 1963. Mizuno

200-662: A BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role , and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1953. In his review in The New York Times , A. H. Weiler wrote: "Although she is not precisely a newcomer to films, Audrey Hepburn, the British actress who is being starred for the first time as Princess Anne, is a slender, elfin, and wistful beauty, alternately regal and childlike in her profound appreciation of newly-found, simple pleasures and love. Although she bravely smiles her acknowledgement of

300-514: A UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador . A month later, she died of appendix cancer at her home in Tolochenaz , Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63. Audrey Kathleen Ruston (later, Hepburn-Ruston ) was born on 4 May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles , a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. She was known to her family as Adriaantje . Hepburn's mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (1900–1984),

400-673: A chorus girl in the West End musical theatre revues High Button Shoes (1948) at the London Hippodrome , and Cecil Landeau's Sauce Tartare (1949) and Sauce Piquante (1950) at the Cambridge Theatre . Also, in 1950, she worked as a dancer in an exceptionally "ambitious" revue, Summer Nights, at Ciro's London , a prominent nightclub . During her theatrical work, she took elocution lessons with actor Felix Aylmer to develop her voice. After being spotted by

500-472: A European princess who escapes the reins of royalty and has a wild night out with an American newsman ( Gregory Peck ). On 18 September 1951, shortly after Secret People was finished but before its premiere, Thorold Dickinson made a screen test with the young starlet and sent it to director William Wyler , who was in Rome preparing Roman Holiday . Wyler wrote a glowing note of thanks to Dickinson, saying that "as

600-664: A German attack. While there, Hepburn attended the Arnhem Conservatory from 1939 to 1945. She had begun taking ballet lessons during her last years at boarding school, and continued training in Arnhem under the tutelage of Winja Marova, becoming her "star pupil". After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Hepburn used the name Edda van Heemstra, because an "English-sounding" name was considered dangerous during

700-537: A ballet scholarship with Ballet Rambert , which was then based in Notting Hill . She supported herself with part-time work as a model, and dropped "Ruston" from her surname. After she was told by Rambert that despite her talent, her height and weak constitution (the after-effect of wartime malnutrition) would make the status of prima ballerina unattainable, she decided to concentrate on acting. While Ella worked in menial jobs to support them, Hepburn appeared as

800-513: A chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. Hepburn rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck , for which she was the first actress to win an Oscar , a Golden Globe Award , and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. That year, she also won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine . Hepburn went on to star in

900-547: A fashion photographer, discovers a beatnik bookshop clerk (Hepburn) who, lured by a free trip to Paris, becomes a beautiful model. Hepburn starred in another romantic comedy, Love in the Afternoon (also 1957), alongside Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier . Hepburn played Sister Luke in The Nun's Story (1959), which focuses on the character's struggle to succeed as a nun, alongside co-star Peter Finch . The role produced

1000-465: A full-time mangaka. The following year she published her first series, Gin no hanabira , which was a success. In 1958, invited by Tezuka, she moved to Tokyo in the Tokiwa-sō apartment where she lived and worked with the two authors Shōtarō Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka , together they collaborated on two manga under the pseudonym U. Mia for the magazine Shōjo Club . She only stayed in Tokiwa-sō for

1100-533: A jungle girl who falls in love with a Venezuelan traveller, and The Unforgiven (1960), her only western film , in which she appeared opposite Burt Lancaster and Lillian Gish in a story of racism against a group of Native Americans. Hepburn next starred as New Yorker Holly Golightly in Blake Edwards 's Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), a film loosely based on the Truman Capote novella of

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1200-591: A leading figure in Dutch ballet, and Russian teacher Olga Tarasova. Due to the loss of the family fortune, Ella had to support them by working as a cook and housekeeper for a wealthy family. Hepburn made her film debut playing an air stewardess in Dutch in Seven Lessons (1948), an educational travel film made by Charles van der Linden and Henry Josephson. Later that year, Hepburn moved to London after accepting

1300-520: A limited release. Six years later, Hepburn co-starred with Robert Wagner in a made-for-television caper film , Love Among Thieves (1987). After finishing her last motion picture role—a cameo appearance as an angel in Steven Spielberg 's Always (1989)—Hepburn completed only two more entertainment-related projects, both critically acclaimed. Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn

1400-415: A mission called "Operation Lifeline". Because of civil war, food from aid agencies had been cut off. The mission was to ferry food to southern Sudan . Hepburn said, "I saw but one glaring truth: These are not natural disasters but man-made tragedies for which there is only one man-made solution – peace." In October 1989, Hepburn and Wolders went to Bangladesh. John Isaac , a UN photographer, said, "Often

1500-584: A nightmare. I have seen famine in Ethiopia and Bangladesh, but I have seen nothing like this – so much worse than I could possibly have imagined. I wasn't prepared for this." Though scarred by what she had seen, Hepburn still had hope stating: As we move into the twenty-first century, there is much to reflect upon. We look around us and see that the promises of yesterday have to come to pass. People still live in abject poverty, people are still hungry, people still struggle to survive. And among these people we see

1600-419: A number of successful films such as Sabrina (1954), in which Humphrey Bogart and William Holden compete for her affection; Funny Face (1957), a musical in which she sang her own parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant ; and the musical My Fair Lady (1964). In 1967, she starred in

1700-529: A play. The meeting led them to collaborate in Ondine , during which they began a relationship. Eight months later, on 25 September 1954, they were married in Bürgenstock , Switzerland, while preparing to star together in the film War and Peace (1956). She and Ferrer had a son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer , born on 17 June 1960. Prior to Sean's birth, Hepburn had two other pregnancies that ended in miscarriages,

1800-619: A port city, Shimonoseki has long had a thriving industry related to shipping, trade, and finance. It is still the center of the prefecture in terms of economy. Shimonoseki has 41 public elementary school and 21 public junior high schools and one public high school operated by the city government. The city has nine public high schools operated by the Yamaguchi Prefectural Board of Education. There are also one private junior high school and five private high schools. The prefecture also operates four special education schools for

1900-431: A result of the test, a number of the producers at Paramount have expressed interest in casting her." The producers of the film had initially wanted Elizabeth Taylor for the role, but Wyler was so impressed by Hepburn's screen test that he cast her instead. Wyler later commented, "She had everything I was looking for: charm, innocence, and talent. She also was very funny. She was absolutely enchanting, and we said, 'That's

2000-619: A series of successful films during the remainder of the decade, including her BAFTA- and Golden Globe-nominated role as Natasha Rostova in War and Peace (1956), an adaptation of the Tolstoy novel set during the Napoleonic wars, starring Henry Fonda and her husband Mel Ferrer. She exhibited her dancing abilities in her debut musical film , Funny Face (1957), wherein Fred Astaire ,

2100-428: A spoken-word recording titled Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales earned her a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children . She stands as one of few entertainers who have won competitive Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards known as EGOT . Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role . In recognition of her film career, she received BAFTA's Lifetime Achievement Award,

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2200-562: A third Academy Award nomination for Hepburn, and earned her a second BAFTA Award. A review in Variety reads: "Hepburn has her most demanding film role, and she gives her finest performance", while Henry Hart in Films in Review stated that her performance "will forever silence those who have thought her less an actress than a symbol of the sophisticated child/woman. Her portrayal of Sister Luke

2300-443: A year. Continuing her career as a mangaka, Mizuno's work met with success and helped broaden the register of shōjo manga: until the mid-1960s, shōjo manga regularly followed the structure of haha-mono , centered on the mother-daughter relationship. During the 1960s several women mangaka, including Mizuno, introduced a new type of story: the romantic comedy . Mizuno notably adapted two films in manga form, with Sabrina adapted in

2400-494: A young widow pursued by several men who chase after the fortune stolen by her murdered husband. The 59-year-old Grant, who had previously withdrawn from the starring male lead roles in Roman Holiday and Sabrina , was sensitive about his age difference with 34-year-old Hepburn, and was uncomfortable about the romantic interplay. To satisfy his concerns, the filmmakers agreed to alter the screenplay so that Hepburn's character

2500-721: Is twinned with: Shimonoseki is home to many festivals, held throughout the year. Of these, the most famous are the Shimonoseki Kaikyo Festival and Shimonoseki Bakan Festival. The Goda-ikka yakuza syndicate is headquartered in Shimonoseki. A designated yakuza group , the Goda-ikka is the largest yakuza syndicate in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Audrey Hepburn Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston ; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993)

2600-617: Is 255,051 people. Shimonoseki has been conducting censuses since 1920. Shimonoseki has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 34 members. Shimonoseki contributes ten members to the Yamaguchi Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of the Yamaguchi 4th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Having prospered as

2700-479: Is a suspense thriller in which Hepburn demonstrated her acting range by playing the part of a terrorised blind woman. Filmed on the brink of her divorce, it was a difficult film for her, as husband Mel Ferrer was its producer. She lost fifteen pounds under the stress, but she found solace in co-star Richard Crenna and director Terence Young . Hepburn earned her fifth and final competitive Academy Award nomination for Best Actress; Bosley Crowther affirmed, "Hepburn plays

2800-581: Is best known for Fire! (1969–1971), one of the first shōjo manga with a boy protagonist, for which she won the 1970 Shogakukan Manga Award . Her Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken (1966) was adapted as an anime television series, licensed in English as Honey Honey on CBN Cable Network. Hideko Mizuno discovered manga very early: at the age of 8 she read the manga Shin Takarajima by Osamu Tezuka as well as his book Manga Daigaku which teaches

2900-405: Is even more luminous as the daughter and pet of the servants' hall than she was as a princess last year, and no more than that can be said." Hepburn also returned to the stage in 1954, playing a water nymph who falls in love with a human in the fantasy play Ondine on Broadway . A critic for The New York Times commented that "somehow, Miss Hepburn is able to translate [its intangibles] into

3000-709: Is located at the westernmost point of Yamaguchi Prefecture and the westernmost point of Honshu . It borders the Sea of Japan to the west and the Seto Inland Sea to the south across the Kanmon Straits . It is long in the north-south direction and has a fan shape that opens to the Seto Inland Sea. The Asa River flows from the north to the central area, and the Ariho River flows from the northeast to

3100-403: Is one of the great performances of the screen." Hepburn spent a year researching and working on the role, saying, "I gave more time, energy, and thought to this role than to any of my previous screen performances". Following The Nun's Story , Hepburn received a lukewarm reception for starring with Anthony Perkins in the romantic adventure Green Mansions (1959), in which she played Rima ,

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3200-701: Is part of ancient Nagato Province . It has prospered since ancient times as the gateway to Honshu island from the Asian continent, including Kyushu, China, and the Korean peninsula . According to the Nihon Shoki , the semi-legendary Emperor Chuai constructed a palace at the location of what is now the Shimonoseki city hall during the Kofun period . The name of "Shimonoseki" appears in Heian period documents from 869 AD as

3300-654: Is so winning and so right that she is the success of the evening". Hepburn also received a Theatre World Award for the role. The play ran for 219 performances, closing on 31 May 1952, before going on tour, which began 13 October 1952 in Pittsburgh and visited Cleveland , Chicago, Detroit, Washington, D. C., and Los Angeles, before closing on 16 May 1953 in San Francisco. Hepburn had her first starring role in Roman Holiday (1953), playing Princess Ann,

3400-465: Is that Audrey Hepburn superbly justifies the decision of Jack Warner to get her to play the title role." Gene Ringgold of Soundstage also commented that, "Audrey Hepburn is magnificent. She is Eliza for the ages", while adding, "Everyone agreed that if Julie Andrews was not to be in the film, Audrey Hepburn was the perfect choice." The reviewer in Time magazine said her "graceful, glamorous performance"

3500-401: Is too much for me. The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering. In August 1988, Hepburn went to Turkey on an immunisation campaign. She called Turkey "the loveliest example" of UNICEF's capabilities. Of the trip, she said, "The army gave us their trucks, the fishmongers gave their wagons for

3600-753: The Ealing Studios casting director, Margaret Harper-Nelson, while performing in Sauce Piquante , Hepburn was registered as a freelance actress with the Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC). She appeared in the BBC Television play The Silent Village , and in minor roles in the films One Wild Oat , Laughter in Paradise , Young Wives' Tale , and The Lavender Hill Mob (all 1951). She

3700-664: The Edo period , the area was part of Chōfu Domain controlled by the Mōri clan . In February 1691, German explorer Engelbert Kaempfer visited the town as part of his two-year stay in Japan, and described it as having around 400 to 500 houses, and as a major port in the region for supplying ship provisions. During the Bakumatsu period , the Bombardment of Shimonoseki occurred in 1864, and in

3800-501: The German occupation . Her family was profoundly affected by the occupation, with Hepburn later stating that "had we known that we were going to be occupied for five years, we might have all shot ourselves. We thought it might be over next week… six months… next year… that's how we got through". In 1942, her uncle, Otto van Limburg Stirum (husband of her mother's older sister, Miesje), was executed in retaliation for an act of sabotage by

3900-740: The Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award , the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award and the Special Tony Award . Later in life, Hepburn devoted much of her time to UNICEF , to which she had contributed since 1954. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia. In December 1992, Hepburn received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as

4000-1057: The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her contribution to humanity. In 2002, at the United Nations Special Session on Children , UNICEF honoured Hepburn's legacy of humanitarian work by unveiling a statue, "The Spirit of Audrey", at UNICEF's New York headquarters. Her service for children is also recognised through the United States Fund for UNICEF 's Audrey Hepburn Society. Alongside her native English and Dutch, Hepburn also had some fluency in French (which she learned at school in Belgium), German, Italian, and Spanish. Throughout her life, Hepburn lived in many countries, including spending her childhood in Belgium, England, and

4100-637: The 1960s, Hepburn renewed contact with her father after locating him in Dublin through the Red Cross ; she supported him financially until his death although he remained emotionally detached. After Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, Hepburn's mother moved her daughter back to Arnhem in the hope that, as during the First World War , the Netherlands would remain neutral and be spared

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4200-644: The Academy and Tony Awards for Best Actress in the same year (the other two are Shirley Booth and Ellen Burstyn ). During the production, Hepburn and her co-star Mel Ferrer began a relationship, and were married on 25 September 1954 in Switzerland. Although she appeared in no new film releases in 1955, Hepburn received the Golden Globe for World Film Favorite that year. Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, she starred in

4300-510: The B.U.F. Joseph left the family abruptly in 1935 after a "scene" in Brussels. He subsequently moved to London, where he became more deeply involved in the Fascist activity and never visited Hepburn abroad. That same year, Ella moved to her family's estate in Arnhem with her daughter; her sons, Alex and Ian, were sent to The Hague to live with relatives. Joseph wanted Hepburn to be educated in

4400-546: The Dutch resistance effort. It was long believed that she participated in the Dutch resistance itself, but in 2016 the Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein' reported that after extensive research it had not found any evidence of such activities. A 2019 book by Robert Matzen provided evidence, based on Hepburn's personal statements, that she had supported the resistance by giving "underground concerts" to raise money, delivering

4500-530: The Netherlands, and her adult years in the United States, Italy, and Switzerland, and traveled extensively during her later years of life as part of her humanitarian work with UNICEF. In 1952, Hepburn became engaged to industrialist James Hanson , whom she had known since her early days in London. She called it "love at first sight", but after having her wedding dress fitted and the date set, she decided

4600-556: The Netherlands. She attended boarding school in Kent, England from 1936 to 1939. With the outbreak of World War II , she returned to the Netherlands. During the war, Hepburn studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory and by 1944, she performed ballet to raise money to support the Dutch resistance . Hepburn studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam beginning in 1945 and with Marie Rambert in London from 1948. She began performing as

4700-536: The United Kingdom, so in 1937, she was sent to live in Kent, where she, known as Audrey Ruston or "Little Audrey", was educated at a small private school in Elham . Her parents officially divorced the next year. Later in her life, she often spoke of the effect on a child of being "dumped" as "children need two parents"; she professed that her father's departure was "the most traumatic event of my life". In

4800-421: The Wind has a motion picture created such universal excitement as My Fair Lady ", although Hepburn's casting in the role of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle was a source of dispute. Julie Andrews , who had originated the role on stage, was not offered the part because producer Jack L. Warner thought Hepburn was a more "bankable" proposition. Hepburn initially asked Warner to give the role to Andrews but

4900-407: The affections of their chauffeur's innocent daughter (Hepburn). For her performance, she was nominated for the 1954 Academy Award for Best Actress, while winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role the same year. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times stated that she was "a young lady of extraordinary range of sensitive and moving expressions within such a frail and slender frame. She

5000-441: The basics of manga creation, thanks to these two books, she took Tezuka as a model and decided to become a mangaka. In 1952 at the age of 12, she regularly contributed to competitions organized by the monthly magazine Manga Shōnen chaired by Tezuka. Although her manga was never accepted, her efforts did not go unnoticed: she received an honorable mention and publisher Akira Maruyama from Kōdansha took notice. In March 1955 when she

5100-400: The children, always the children: their enlarged bellies, their sad eyes, their wise faces that show the suffering, all the suffering they have endured in their short years. United States president George H. W. Bush presented Hepburn with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF , and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences posthumously awarded her

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5200-478: The couple subsequently lived. Before divorcing in 1925, they had two sons, Jonkheer Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles van Ufford (1920–1979) and Jonkheer Ian Edgar Bruce Quarles van Ufford (1924–2010). Hepburn's father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (1889–1980), was a British subject born in Auschitz , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary. He was the son of Victor John George Ruston, who was of British and German-Austrian background, and Anna Juliana Franziska Karolina Wels, who

5300-425: The creation of the modern municipalities system. The city was renamed Shimonoseki on June 1, 1902. On February 13, 2005, Shimonoseki absorbed the towns of Hōhoku , Kikugawa , Toyota and Toyoura (all from Toyoura District ) to create the new and expanded city of Shimonseki. Since October 1, 2005, the city has been designated as a core city by the Japanese government with increased local autonomy. Shimonoseki

5400-410: The early Meiji period , the Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed in 1895, seeing a defeated China hand over Taiwan , Penghu , and Port Arthur to the victorious Japanese at the end of the First Sino-Japanese War . An Imperial decree in July 1899 established Shimonoseki as an open port for trading with the United States and the United Kingdom . Akamagaseki city was established on April 1, 1889 with

5500-409: The east, flowing southward into the Seto Inland Sea. The city hall is located on the west bank of the Ariho River mouth. Yamaguchi Prefecture Shimonoseki has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ) with hot summers and cool winters. Precipitation is significant throughout the year, but is heavier in summer. Per Japanese census data, the population of Shimonoseki in 2020

5600-545: The end of that affair, she remains a pitifully lonely figure facing a stuffy future." Hepburn was signed to a seven-picture contract with Paramount , with 12 months in between films to allow her time for stage work. She was featured on 7 September 1953 cover of Time magazine, and also became known for her personal style. Following her success in Roman Holiday , Hepburn starred in Billy Wilder 's romantic Cinderella -story comedy Sabrina (1954), in which wealthy brothers ( Humphrey Bogart and William Holden ) compete for

5700-427: The famine. Suffering from the effects of malnutrition , after the war ended Hepburn became gravely ill with jaundice , anaemia , oedema , and a respiratory infection. In October 1945, a letter from Ella asking for help was received by Micky Burn , a former lover and British Army officer with whom she had corresponded while he was a prisoner of war in Colditz Castle . He sent back thousands of cigarettes, which she

5800-426: The film "is not too well acted", with the exception of Hepburn, who "gives the impression of being sensitive and pure" of its "muted theme". Variety magazine also compliments Hepburn's "soft sensitivity, marvelous projection and emotional understatement", adding that Hepburn and MacLaine "beautifully complement each other". Hepburn next appeared opposite Cary Grant in the comic thriller Charade (1963), playing

5900-471: The film for her perfume. Dubbed " marshmallow -weight hokum" by Variety upon its release in April, the film was "uniformly panned" but critics were kinder to Hepburn's performance, describing her as "a refreshingly individual creature in an era of the exaggerated curve". Hepburn's second film released in 1964 was George Cukor 's film adaptation of the stage musical My Fair Lady , which premiered in October. Soundstage wrote that "not since Gone with

6000-458: The filming, and decided to cast Hepburn in the title role in the Broadway play Gigi . Hepburn went into rehearsals having never spoken on stage, and required private coaching. When Gigi opened at the Fulton Theatre on 24 November 1951, she received praise for her performance, despite criticism that the stage version was inferior to the French film adaptation. Life called her a "hit", while The New York Times stated that "her quality

6100-509: The girl! ' " Originally, the film was to have had only Gregory Peck's name above its title, with "Introducing Audrey Hepburn" beneath in smaller font. Peck suggested Wyler elevate her to equal billing so her name appears before the title, and in type as large as his: "You've got to change that because she'll be a big star, and I'll look like a big jerk." The film was a box-office success, and Hepburn gained critical acclaim for her portrayal, unexpectedly winning an Academy Award for Best Actress ,

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6200-474: The handicapped. The city has a North Korean school , Yamaguchi Korean Elementary and Junior High School ( 山口朝鮮初中級学校 ) . It formerly housed two other North Korean schools, Yamaguchi Korean High School and Shimonoseki Korean Elementary and Junior High School ( 下関朝鮮初中級学校 ) . [REDACTED] JR West – San'yō Shinkansen [REDACTED] JR West (JR West) - San'yō Main Line [REDACTED] JR West (JR West) - San'in Main Line Shimonoseki

6300-555: The kids would have flies all over them, but she would just go hug them. I had never seen that. Other people had a certain amount of hesitation, but she would just grab them. Children would just come up to hold her hand, touch her – she was like the Pied Piper ." In October 1990, Hepburn went to Vietnam, in an effort to collaborate with the government for national UNICEF-supported immunisation and clean water programmes. In September 1992, four months before she died, Hepburn went to Somalia. Calling it "apocalyptic", she said, "I walked into

6400-399: The language of the theatre without artfulness or precociousness. She gives a pulsing performance that is all grace and enchantment, disciplined by an instinct for the realities of the stage". Her performance won her the 1954 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play three days after she won the Academy Award for Roman Holiday , making her one of three actresses to receive

6500-495: The location of a checkpoint controlling maritime access to the Seto Inland Sea; however, by the Kamakura period , the name of "Akamanoseki" was in more common use. During the Genpei War , the Heike and Genji fought at the Battle of Dan-no-ura near the present Kanmon Bridge . During the Muromachi period , the powerful Ōuchi clan was shugo of both Nagato and Buzen Province in Kyushu and thus controlled trade and diplomatic missions from Ming China and Joseon Korea . In

6600-403: The manga Sutekina cora (1963) and The Quiet Man adapted as Akage no scarlet (1966). Mizuno created Harp of the Stars in 1960, a love story drawing from Norse mythology . Mizuno is best known for Fire! (1969–1971), one of the first shōjo manga with a boy protagonist, for which she won the 1970 Shogakukan Manga Award . Mizuno was a fan of progressive rock such as Pink Floyd . After

6700-441: The marriage would not work because the demands of their careers would keep them apart most of the time. She issued a public statement about her decision, saying "When I get married, I want to be really married". In the early 1950s, she also dated future Hair producer Michael Butler . At a cocktail party hosted by mutual friend Gregory Peck , Hepburn met American actor Mel Ferrer , and suggested that they star together in

6800-399: The northern port of Shoa . It can't be distributed. Last spring, Red Cross and UNICEF workers were ordered out of the northern provinces because of two simultaneous civil wars... I went into rebel country and saw mothers and their children who had walked for ten days, even three weeks, looking for food, settling onto the desert floor into makeshift camps where they may die. Horrible. That image

6900-405: The now-married Hepburn, and his alcoholism was beginning to affect his work. After principal photography began, she demanded the dismissal of cinematographer Claude Renoir after seeing what she felt were unflattering dailies . Superstitious, she also insisted on dressing room 55 because that was her lucky number and required that Hubert de Givenchy , her long-time designer, be given a credit in

7000-463: The part of a dutiful daughter trying to help her father with the help of a man played by Peter O'Toole . The film was followed by two films in 1967. The first was Two for the Road , a non-linear and innovative British dramedy that traces the course of a couple's troubled marriage. Director Stanley Donen said that Hepburn was freer and happier than he had ever seen her, and he credited that to co-star Albert Finney . The second, Wait Until Dark ,

7100-433: The poignant role, the quickness with which she changes and the skill with which she manifests terror attract sympathy and anxiety to her and give her genuine solidity in the final scenes." After 1967, Hepburn chose to devote more time to her family and acted only occasionally. She attempted a comeback playing Maid Marian in the period piece Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery co-starring as Robin Hood , which

7200-456: The production of Bloodline (1979), sharing top-billing with Ben Gazzara , James Mason , and Romy Schneider . The film, an international intrigue amid the jet-set , was a critical and box-office failure. Hepburn's last starring role in a feature film was opposite Gazzara in the comedy They All Laughed (1981), directed by Peter Bogdanovich . The film was overshadowed by the murder of one of its stars, Dorothy Stratten , and received only

7300-402: The resistance movement; while he had not been involved in the act, he was targeted due to his family's prominence in Dutch society. These family events were the turning point in the attitude of Hepburn's mother, who had flirted with Nazism up to this point. Hepburn's half-brother Ian was deported to Berlin to work in a German labour camp , and her other half-brother Alex went into hiding to avoid

7400-708: The same fate. "We saw young men put against the wall and shot, and they'd close the street and then open it, and you could pass by again... Don't discount anything awful you hear or read about the Nazis. It's worse than you could ever imagine." —Hepburn on the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands After her uncle's death, Hepburn, Ella, and Miesje left Arnhem to live with her grandfather, Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, in nearby Velp . Around that time Hepburn gave silent dance performances that reportedly raised money for

7500-485: The same name. Capote disapproved of many changes that were made to sanitise the story for the film adaptation, and would have preferred Marilyn Monroe to have been cast in the role, although he also stated that Hepburn "did a terrific job". The character is considered one of the best-known in American cinema , and a defining role for Hepburn. The dress she wears during the opening credits has been considered an icon of

7600-636: The second one at six months. Ferrer was rumoured to be too controlling, and had been referred to by others as being her " Svengali " – an idea that Hepburn laughed off. William Holden was quoted as saying, "I think Audrey allows Mel to think he influences her." After a 14-year marriage, the couple divorced in 1968. Hepburn met her second husband, Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti , on a Mediterranean cruise with friends in June 1968. She believed she would have more children and possibly stop working. They married on 18 January 1969, and their son Luca Andrea Dotti

7700-482: The serialisation of Fire! , Mizuno became a single mother. Her Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken (1966) was adapted as an anime television series, licensed in English as Honey Honey on CBN Cable Network. Some of Mizuno's works star adult women as protagonists, distinguished from children by the work's inclusion of heterosexual love. Mizuno was inspired by Hollywood romantic films like those featuring Audrey Hepburn . Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Shimonoseki

7800-450: The story was about a "little girl and a pony" and while her publisher Mazuyama was expecting a sentimental manga with a sensitive and fragile heroine who was the norm in the magazine's productions, Mizuno provided a Western- inspired manga with a tomboy heroine, and although the manga did not match what was requested, it was nevertheless published. In 1956 Mizuno went to Tokyo for the first time where she met Tezuka, she then decided to become

7900-492: The suburban Brussels municipality of Linkebeek in 1932. Hepburn's early childhood was sheltered and privileged. Due to her father's job, the family travelled back and forth between three countries, enhancing her multinational background. In the mid-1930s, Hepburn's parents recruited and collected donations for the British Union of Fascists (B.U.F). Ella met Adolf Hitler and wrote favourable articles about him for

8000-476: The summer of 1962 before Charade, Hepburn reunited with her Sabrina co-star William Holden in Paris When It Sizzles (1964), a screwball comedy in which she played the young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter, who aids his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots. Its production was troubled by several problems. Holden unsuccessfully tried to rekindle a romance with

8100-481: The thriller Wait Until Dark , receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. After that, Hepburn only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery . Her last recorded performances were in the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn , for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming . In 1994, Hepburn's contributions to

8200-420: The time, Joseph worked for a trading company, but soon after the marriage, the couple moved to Europe, where he began working for a loan company; reportedly tin merchants MacLaine, Watson, and Company in London. After a year in London, they moved to Brussels, where he had been assigned to open a branch office. After three years spent traveling between Brussels, Arnhem, The Hague and London, the family settled in

8300-726: The twentieth century, and perhaps the most famous "little black dress" of all time. Hepburn stated that the role was "the jazziest of my career" yet admitted: "I'm an introvert. Playing the extroverted girl was the hardest thing I ever did." She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. The same year, Hepburn also starred in William Wyler's drama The Children's Hour (1961), in which she and Shirley MacLaine play teachers whose lives are destroyed after two pupils accuse them of being lesbians. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times writes that

8400-584: The underground newspaper, and taking messages and food to downed Allied flyers hiding in the woodlands north of Velp. She also volunteered at a hospital that was the center of resistance activities in Velp, and, according to Hepburn, her family temporarily hid a British paratrooper in their home during the Battle of Arnhem . In addition to other traumatic events, she witnessed the transportation of Dutch Jews to concentration camps , later stating that "more than once I

8500-869: The vaccines, and once the date was set, it took ten days to vaccinate the whole country. Not bad." In October, Hepburn went to South America. Of her experiences in Venezuela and Ecuador, Hepburn told the United States Congress, "I saw tiny mountain communities, slums, and shantytowns receive water systems for the first time by some miracle – and the miracle is UNICEF. I watched boys build their own schoolhouse with bricks and cement provided by UNICEF." Hepburn toured Central America in February 1989, and met with leaders in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. In April, she visited Sudan with Wolders as part of

8600-489: Was "the best of her career". Andrews won an Academy Award for Mary Poppins at the 1964 37th Academy Awards and Hepburn earned Best Actress nominations for Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Circle awards. Hepburn appeared in an assortment of genres including the heist comedy How to Steal a Million (1966). Hepburn played the daughter of a famous art collector, whose collection consists entirely of forgeries that are about to be exposed as fakes. Her character plays

8700-566: Was a PBS documentary series, which was filmed on location in seven countries in the spring and summer of 1990. A one-hour special preceded it in March 1991, and the series itself began its national PBS premiere on 24 January 1993, the day of her funeral services in Tolochenaz. For the "Flower Gardens" episode, Hepburn was posthumously awarded the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming. The other project

8800-733: Was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career in Hollywood and was recognised as a film and fashion icon , she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List . Born into an aristocratic family in Ixelles , Brussels, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England and

8900-492: Was a Dutch noblewoman. Ella was the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra , who served as the mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and as the governor of Dutch Guiana from 1921 to 1928, and Baroness Elbrig Willemine Henriette van Asbeck (1873–1939), a granddaughter of Count Dirk van Hogendorp . At age 19, she married Jonkheer Hendrik Gustaaf Adolf Quarles van Ufford—an oil executive based in Batavia, Dutch East Indies , where

9000-439: Was a spoken word album, Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales , which features readings of classic children's stories and was recorded in 1992. It earned her a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children . In the 1950s, Hepburn narrated two radio programmes for UNICEF , re-telling children's stories of war. In 1989, Hepburn was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF . On her appointment, she stated that she

9100-505: Was able to sell on the black market and thus buy the penicillin which saved Hepburn's life. The Van Heemstra family's financial situation changed significantly through the occupation, during which time many of their properties (including their principal estate in Arnhem) were damaged or destroyed. After the war ended in 1945, Hepburn moved with her mother and siblings to Amsterdam , where she began ballet training under Sonia Gaskell ,

9200-418: Was about to leave junior high for work, not wishing to go to high school, she received a letter from Maruyama, an order for a board and two illustrations for the magazine Shōjo Club , Hideko Mizuno was then 15 years old. For a year and a half, Mizuno worked to make a living and drew for Shōjo Club at the same time. Her first manga published in 1955, Akkake kōma pony is like the rest of the mangaka's career:

9300-463: Was at the station seeing trainloads of Jews being transported, seeing all these faces over the top of the wagon. I remember, very sharply, one little boy standing with his parents on the platform, very pale, very blond, wearing a coat that was much too big for him, and he stepped on the train. I was a child observing a child." After the Allied landing on D-Day , living conditions grew worse, and Arnhem

9400-649: Was cast in her first major supporting role in Thorold Dickinson 's Secret People (1952), as a prodigious ballerina, performing all of her own dancing sequences. Hepburn then took a small role in a bilingual film, Monte Carlo Baby (French: Nous Irons à Monte Carlo , 1952), which was filmed in Monte Carlo . Coincidentally, French novelist Colette was at the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo during

9500-563: Was eventually cast. Further friction was created when, although non-singer Hepburn had sung in Funny Face and had lengthy vocal preparation for the role in My Fair Lady , her vocals were dubbed by Marni Nixon , whose voice was considered more suitable to the role. Hepburn was initially upset and walked off the set when informed. Critics applauded Hepburn's performance. Crowther wrote that, "The happiest thing about [ My Fair Lady ]

9600-651: Was grateful for receiving international aid after enduring the German occupation as a child, and wanted to show her gratitude to the organisation. Hepburn's first field mission for UNICEF was to Ethiopia in 1988. She visited an orphanage in Mek'ele that housed 500 starving children and had UNICEF send food. Of the trip, she said, I have a broken heart. I feel desperate. I can't stand the idea that two million people are in imminent danger of starving to death, many of them children, [and] not because there isn't tons of food sitting in

9700-411: Was moderately successful. Roger Ebert praised Hepburn's chemistry with Connery, writing, "Connery and Hepburn seem to have arrived at a tacit understanding between themselves about their characters. They glow. They really do seem in love. And they project as marvellously complex, fond, tender people; the passage of 20 years has given them grace and wisdom." Hepburn reunited with director Terence Young in

9800-672: Was of German-Austrian origin and born in Kovarce . In 1923–1924, he was an Honorary British Consul in Semarang , Dutch East Indies and, prior to his marriage to Hepburn's mother, was married to Cornelia Bisschop, a Dutch heiress. Joseph later changed his surname to the more "aristocratic" double-barrelled Hepburn-Ruston, perhaps at Ella's insistence, as he mistakenly believed himself descended from James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell . Hepburn's parents were married in Batavia in 1926. At

9900-492: Was pursuing him. The film turned out to be a positive experience for him; he said, "All I want for Christmas is another picture with Audrey Hepburn." The role earned Hepburn her third, and final, competitive BAFTA Award, and another Golden Globe nomination. Critic Bosley Crowther was less kind to her performance, stating that, "Hepburn is cheerfully committed to a mood of how-nuts-can-you-be in an obviously comforting assortment of expensive Givenchy costumes." Although filmed in

10000-477: Was subsequently heavily damaged during Operation Market Garden . During the 1944–45 Dutch famine , the Germans hindered or reduced the already limited food and fuel supplies to civilians in retaliation for Dutch railway strikes that were held to disrupt the occupation. Like others, Hepburn's family resorted to making flour out of tulip bulbs to bake cakes and biscuits, a source of starchy carbohydrates; Dutch doctors provided recipes for using tulip bulbs throughout

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