This is a movie star . . .

Is she on Ozempic?

As a rule, I cannot watch one of her films or interviews without then going on to speak to my dog all night in her accent.

So you tell yourself, but the dreck was behind the mic. Dreck is always with us.

What is going on with John's hair?

And those hideous suits!

She was onboard the 1989 Star Princess inaugural cruise (as she had christened the ship) and was a remarkable unhealthy mess. I really felt bad for her.

It was the 70s, R5. You should see some of the stuff I wore as a kid and teen during that decade.

I thought it was Suzanne Pleshette in the preview. Time for new glasses.

Who wasn't kidnapped in the 70s in Italy?

Oy, that hair. Looks like a younger version of one of Estelle Getty's wigs.

That hairdo (wig?) wasn't doing her any favors, and seems particularly odd styling for 1976. She's looks painfully thin there.

That was painful to watch. Is she really that shy and uncomfortable?

Ooh you beat me to it with a bitchier (and more apt) hair comment, r10

And the fabric design on the chairs!

If you click on r7’s link and scroll to the fashion article, is that Lori Loughlin modeling the cowl neck?

Yep, R15. It is.

When Ed McMahon said Audrey was a sexy lady I cringed.

"Roman Holiday" will never lose its place as the best Rom Com ever. There is no such thing as a perfect ending to a movie but RH comes damn close.

Gregory Peck said that decades later, he and Hepburn were approached about a sequel and they spoke to each other about doing it but for whatever reason, it didn't happen.

I'm glad about that.

The end leaves you knowing that, while they will fall in love with another, still, they'll both die knowing a part of their hearts always belonged to each other.

She was always very thin. She attributed it to the near-starvation she endured during WW2 but I’ve read other rumors that she was just anorexic.

Audrey, with Elizabeth Taylor, at an AIDS benefit in Switzerland in 1991, 18 months before her death.

Audrey was only three years older than Elizabeth, but looks older than that.

R18 One of my favorite movies and they were both so gorgeous in it.

Did she always have bad teeth?

R20 That head of hair on ET is insane!

Are we sure that Audrey wasn’t a lesbian? Her face looks like it is peaking out of a very hairy pussy. Maybe her head got stuck in a very cavernous snatch, like Joan Collins’ Grand Canyon.

Maybe you're not well, r24, even if people tried to help you.

So Audrey’s perm was a choice.

Emma Thompson had it right. Twee actress, mumsy. Totally overrated.

Never understood the blind adoration for her.

It was her voice and then her elfin looks. Loved her voice and accent.

When Audrey came on the scene there had had been NO ONE like her. She was a true original. There are not a lot of actresses who one can say that about. The other Hepburn was also a true original.

Audrey Hepburn was the ingenue of the 1950s.

She won an Oscar and a Tony in the same year and was on every magazine cover imaginable.

She wore clothes beautifully and was a photographer’s dream.

What was there not to like?

The only other female guest I recall Johnny in awe of was Sophia Loren.

Wig, R23.

Her face was still very beautiful in OP’s clip. But wow, so incredibly fragile.

Sophia Loren is one helluva gal, so I get it.

Off-Topic: It’s interesting that Johnny Carson was considered the gold standard in guest talk show hosts as he was always about making his guests look good and keeping the vibe positive. Because even people that came after him and admired him, like Dave Letterman, prescribed to pretty much an opposite tact. This just popped into my head because of Ellen losing her show not too long ago.

[quote]When Audrey came on the scene there had had been NO ONE like her. She was a true original.

I've always thought that Audrey and Jean Simmons looked/sounded similar.

The first time I watched ELMER GANTRY, I thought Jean was Audrey.

Audrey Hepburn was a European aristocrat. Not exactly your average Hollywood actress of the late 50s to the 60s. She’s the exception, not the rule, and she was seen as such, even then.

A much more appropriate comparison would be, say, Annette Funicello. So in other words, things haven’t changed much at all.

I like both Loren and Hepburn but they’re so reserved. I get it. That suits their status.

But for sheer fun as a talk show guest, give me the Gabor sisters or Shelley Winters every time.

Audrey Hepburn was Jean Simmons x 1,000,000.

Wasn’t Jean Simmons known as “the poor man’s Elizabeth Taylor”?

R40 I think that was Joan Collins.

When fucking Jean Simmons men would say “It’s a big country!”

How did Jean Simmons survive being married to that prick Richard Brooks for twenty years?

It's funny how she never faced any backlash for being a homewrecker, not once but twice, while Liz Taylor got plenty. Why is that?

Everything used to be better!

Canny self-marketing, r44.

They all lived in Switzerland for the tax breaks. Richard Burton noted in his diaries that when he and Elizabeth received a lot of negative press Audrey would refuse to thank them for her birthday present/flowers.

You don’t need to be old to feel that way, r45, but it doesn’t hurt.

The old maxim is that, at any given time, people will perceive that a thing was better in the past than it is currently.

Things were better under the Kaiser!

I love her but she's always been horrible at interviews. If you hate them so much don't do them. She spends more energy evading even the most basic questions as she does answering them. Johnny was a master interviewer but it's almost like he'd have a hard time getting her to tell him what she had for lunch. Yesterday.

Audrey scored some nice dick over the years, William Holden, Albert Finney, Ben Gazzara, Robert Wolders, etc.

R11, she was mannered and of very limited range as an actress. Had confirmed and rumored affairs with married men (see link). That's a lot, right there.

^ R11, very sorry. My comment was directed to R30.

R27 - Um Emma Thompson is no Audrey Hepburn.

I believe this was finally settled.

Audrey Hepburn died on the same day as Clinton’s Inauguration in January of 1993.

Well done . . .

Audrey was prodded by a studio exec to have lunch with Doris Day. After the lunch date, Audrey told the exec never to set them up again. She found Doris to be a narcissistic dullard, who only wanted to talk about herself.

R57, I find that really hard to believe. Day was a favorite of James Cagney, who thought she was a highly considerate co-star and an all-around genuine person. Hepburn most likely saw Day as a huge box-office competitor, even though they occupied different spheres.