Audrey Hepburn: Special DVD Collection (Box Set)

Ageless and timeless, in film anyway.

This DVD boxset contains four of the best movies with Audrey Hepburn.The all time favourite classic Breakfast at Tiffany's directed by Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, 10, The Pink Panther series, The Party) where Audrey plays Holy an eccentric New York City playgirl trying to find a man to get married to (that must be rich too!!) who meets Fred, (who later proves to be Paul - George Peppard) and he becomes her next-door neighbour. Paul is a writer who is sponsored by a wealthy lady (Patricia Neal). Audrey Hepburn is wonderful in this movie. I enjoyed watching her performance and her character. Both interested me, but I was caught up in the character the first time I saw it. There are a lot of humorous scenes in the movie. One hilarious scene is when Hepburn gets drunk. She does a great job and deserves the Oscar nomination that she got. The music of the film is been written by Henry Mancini and he really deserves the Oscar that he got for the song moon river in that film.The Funny Face, a very sweet film a rather slight '50s musical that gets by on the charm of stars Fred Astaire and Audrey, the songs of George and Ira Gershwin and the romantic setting. Unfortunately it's a bit weak in the story department: Maggie Prescot (Kay Thompson) is editor of Quality magazine, the fashion oracle for American women. She's looking for a new type of women to embody all that the magazine is about and with her fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), they're off to the most musty used bookstore they can find to make their air-headed model look intelligent. While doing a shoot in a Greenwich Village bookstore, he encounters mousy clerk Jo Stockton (Hepburn) and is instantly struck by her offbeat beauty and brains. She is the face he's been looking for.The next one is Sabrina: along with Audrey, Humphrey Bogart, and William Holden are in the leading roles. This was Audrey Hepburn's second American film: coming off her Best Actress Oscar winning debut in Roman Holiday. The film was nominated for six Oscars, including another Best Actress for Hepburn. Sabrina Fairchild (Hepburn) is the daughter of the chauffeur for the Larrabee family, and has grown up in the shadow of opulence and grandeur. She grew up watching the two Larrabee brothers grow up: the older Linus (Bogart), whose keen sense of business has kept him constantly expanding the industrial empire, and the younger David (Holden), a playboy that seems to find and discard women. Sabrina has secretly pined away for David her whole life hoping only for the day he'll notice her. Before that time could come, her father sends her to Paris to a gourmet cooking school, hoping she will follow in her mother's footsteps. When she returns two years later, she has been transformed into a sophisticated and beautiful woman, who gains David's eye without a moment of trouble. No trouble, except for the fact he's already engaged to a woman whose family will promote a multi-million dollar merger with the Larrabees. This gets Linus involved, as he tries to stop the romance before it can ruin the business deal. But the focused and driven Linus is also charmed by the beautiful girl.The film simply sparkles with the chemistry between all the characters. Well written, brilliantly directed, and powerful performances each contribute to a whole that transcends the years, and is one of the best films of its genre ever to be released.Finally we have Paris when it Sizzles which is a romantic comedy that spends most of its time lampooning the creative process of making a motion picture. This movie about making a bad movie has moments of brilliance though it can become tiresome and all too predictable from the romantic angle. Richard Benson (William Holden) is a well known and well-paid Hollywood screenwriter, and has been paid a great deal in advance for his next script, a film called The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower. Unfortunately Benson has wasted the last 18 weeks he was given to write the script, and now has two days before his producer Alexander Meyerheim (Noel Coward) arrives at his Paris apartment for the finished work. In a panic, he hires Gabrielle Simpson (Audrey Hepburn) as a typist. With time so short, he has to dictate the story off the top of his head, and Gabrielle types as he talks. The lines between the characters and the real life people blur, and the stories start merging together; as the couple in the film falls in love, the same thing seems to be happening inside the Paris apartment. Perhaps the funniest thing about the movie though is the blasé attitude it takes about what it takes to get a movie written. Only two days, after wasting 18 weeks? No problem for a seasoned professional screenwriter. We can whip out something thrilling and without a trace of substance in half that time. Makes you wonder how so many meaningless films actually get made. I really liked that movie and I must say that I rate it second after the Breakfast at Tiffany's in this boxset as Audrey looks absolutely gorgeous, sweet and so talented! Delightful plot, I love Audrey Hepburn!

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