Damiani Ludovica - Audrey in Rome

From 2003 to 2006 she was the assistant director of the press office at the Venice Film Festival. She is the author of the books Set in Venice and Set in Cortina, the first two volumes in a series about cities as cinematographic sets. She has written and produced plays as tributes to Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini that have been performed in theaters in Rome, Milan, Venice, Paris, Moscow, and New York. She is currently the communications and project-development manager for the Rome-based film production company Wildside. She also serves as an editorial consultant for the Audrey Hepburn Childrens Fund. Luca Dotti is the son of Audrey Hepburn and the Italian psychiatrist Dr.

Andrea Dotti. Luca is a graphic designer and also works with his brother, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, at the Audrey Hepburn Childrens Fund. Founded in 1994 in honor of their mother, the fund helps children in need around the world. Dotti lives in Rome with his wife and three children. Sciascia Gambaccini is a journalist who has served as a fashion editor at Harpers Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Interview, and Marie Claire.

For her complete biography, see her official website: www.audreyhepburn.com. 1952 Filming begins on Roman Holiday, Audreys first major film. Twenty-four years old, she is engaged to Lord James Hanson; the Fontana sisters make her wedding gown. The couple soon breaks up, and the gown is given to a young Italian girl. 1954 Audrey is awarded an Academy Award for best actress for her performance in Roman Holiday. During a dinner in London celebrating the opening of the film, her friend Gregory Peck introduces her to Mel Ferrer.

The couple marries in Switzerland in September that same year. Also in 1954, Sabrina, directed by Billy Wilder and costarring Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, is released. 1955 Audreys performance in Sabrina wins her a BAFTA award for best actress. Many of the outfits Audrey wears on the set are designed by Hubert de Givenchy, a collaboration that laid the groundwork for a friendship that lasted the rest of her life. 1956 War and Peace, directed by King Vidor and filmed almost entirely on the sets of Cinecitt, is released. 1957 A year of romantic comedies. 1957 A year of romantic comedies.

In Funny Face, Audrey learns to dance following the lead of the master Fred Astaire, and in Love in the Afternoon she falls into the arms of playboy Gary Cooper. 1958 Rome, by all means, Rome! as in the famous line from Roman Holiday: Audrey is again at Cinecitt, this time to film The Nuns Story, directed by Fred Zinnemann. The film takes her to Africa for the first time, the continent where Audrey will later return as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. 1959 In Green Mansions, directed by Mel Ferrer, Audrey performs with Anthony Perkins. She and Mel announce they are expecting their first child. 1960 In The Unforgiven, a Western directed by John Huston, Audrey stars opposite Burt Lancaster. 1960 In The Unforgiven, a Western directed by John Huston, Audrey stars opposite Burt Lancaster.

On set in 1959, a near-fatal riding accident forces her into a long convalescence. Sean is three months old when Audrey begins studying the character of Holly Golightly for Breakfast at Tiffanys. 1961 Audrey stars in Breakfast at Tiffanys, directed by Blake Edwards. Truman Capote, author of the novel, hoped for Marilyn Monroe to play Holly Golightly and considers Hepburn a poor choice. Audrey has trouble identifying with the overly free-and-easy Holly. 1962 In The Childrens Hour, Audrey acts with Shirley MacLaine for the first time. 1962 In The Childrens Hour, Audrey acts with Shirley MacLaine for the first time.

The story depicts a lesbian scandal; perhaps because of bigotry, the film does not meet with great commercial success despite many nominations and awards. 1963 Charade, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant and Walter Matthau, brings Audrey back to Paris. At almost the same time, she works on Paris When It Sizzles with William Holden, but as a result of numerous problems on the set, the film isnt released until 1964. 1964 Audrey makes My Fair Lady, directed by George Cukor, and it is one of her most controversial successes. She initially insisted that the part be given to Julie Andrews, who had given a masterful performance of Eliza Doolittle on Broadway. 1965 Audreys son Sean is now five and of school age; she wants to devote more time to motherhood and slow down the hectic pace filmmaking forces upon her life. 1965 Audreys son Sean is now five and of school age; she wants to devote more time to motherhood and slow down the hectic pace filmmaking forces upon her life.

Her home in Switzerland increasingly becomes an oasis of peace from Hollywood. 1966 Once again directed by her friend Wyler and dressed by Givenchy, Audrey acts beside Peter OToole in one of her most brilliant comedies, How to Steal a Million. The car that Audrey drives through the streets of Paris is a Bianchina Special Cabriolet. 1967 Audrey makes Two for the Road and Wait Until Dark, directed respectively by Stanley Donen and Terence Young. This is a difficult year for Audrey, who sees her marriage to Mel Ferrer coming to an end. 1968 After a fifteen-year career with resounding successes, Audrey decides to retire from filmmaking and dedicate herself to Sean and find a little serenity.

On a trip to Greece she meets Roman psychiatrist Andrea Dotti through mutual friends and falls in love with him. 1969 On January 18 Audrey and Andrea are married; she wears a very simple pink wool dress designed by Givenchy. Once again, roads lead Audrey back to Rome. 1970 Audrey gives birth to her second son, Luca, and she chooses to play what she calls her favorite role, that of wife and mother. In later years Audrey took several minor roles out of friendship with the director or actors. 1988 Audrey is nominated a UNICEF international goodwill ambassador and dedicates herself entirely to her most important and difficult role yet. 1988 Audrey is nominated a UNICEF international goodwill ambassador and dedicates herself entirely to her most important and difficult role yet.

She visits more than twenty countries and witnesses atrocious injustices and suffering, which she ceaselessly brings to the attention of world leaders. Today, twenty years later, the tragedy that Audrey saw in Somalia in 1992 is being repeated. She herself defined it as hell. That trip was her last. Reporters Associati