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ALL EDmorcs Page 12 (Section 3) -The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona. Sunday, August 22, 1954 clntevtcitnment Audrey Hepburn Story Critics Term Her Future Bernhardt By DICK KLEINER NEW YORK (NEA) This is Audrey Hepburn: She came out of the theater and there was the usual crowd of autograph seekers pushing around her. She noticed one crippled lady holding a camera. The woman obyiousy wanted to take her picture, and just as obviously didn't stand a chance in the crush. Audrey Hepburn turned to a MGM Plans 27 Important Films HOLLYWOOD (INS) Metro Goldwyn Mayer film studio has announced that it will produce a minimum of 27 "important" motion pictures during the next 12 months.

Studio Chief Dore Schary said eight of the new films will go before the cameras within the next 60 days, continuing the accelerated production a maintained at the studio since last April. wwrawwra-Wf flgjqiiw.M xxwm turn umwjii.muiuwma'iiiWW1 i I if i i i MOODS Hi picture of her. There are contradictions. But, basically, they all say the same thing: she is a nice, normal, ambitious, hardworking young actress. She's been real pro all her life.

It was something born into her, like her big gray eyes. She has a way of taking advantage of her limited physical equipment and, when you watch her, you see beauty that isn't there. For she isn't beautiful her mouth is too big, her teeth irregular, her feet and hands are big, she's tall and angular, and her neck is skinny. BUT SOMEHOW nobody seems to notice or care. All they know is that when you're watching Audrey Hepburn act, you forget that it's Audrey Hepburn.

She becomes the part whether it's the young girl in "Gigi," the princess in "Roman Holiday." the water sprite in "Ondine" or the chauffeur's daughter in her coming movie, "Sabrina." But don't try to tell Audrey Hepburn she's already a great actress. She still thinks of herself as just beginning to catch on to her trade. When anybody woman was looking for a girl to play the title role. One look at Audrey Hepburn and that was it. IX NOVEMBER, 1951, Audrey Hepburn was in New York and by December she was the coming actress of the year.

Her name went up on the theater marquee. Nighty, the audience was full of talent scouts from Hollywood. Daily, the press carried her picture and stories about her. One play did it. She doesn't know when she felt that the stage was more her metier than either the ballet or chorus line.

But sometime during her days in England the stage bug bit her, and she began studying drama. So she was ready when Collette spotted her. Sooner or later she will marry. Her friends say she's the marrying kind. She is now only 25, far from an old maid.

She likes children. She isn't particularly domestic, but a home even if it's only a city apartment is decidedly on her list of "things to do sometime." First, though, comes success. Most people would say that she's achieved success already and, in terms of public notice, she has. But success to her means something else. It means perfection in her trade.

She wants to be the best actress that she can possibly be, and she doesn't think she is yet. So, first things first. After that, marriage. She won't have finding a man. any trouble TVpw Si arc; Jean Sook an(J Teddy Roman are now icu-s featured in acro-adagio numbers of "Ice Vogues," which will have a five-day engagement at Phoenix Municipal Stadium, starting Sept.

4. Rock's Problem Is Betty 4-, I tall man in the crowd and commanded, "Take a picture of me with that woman's camera, please." And' she posed carefully and smiled. There was a tear in her eye as she smiled. And this is Audrey Hepburn, too: The night "Ondine" closed, she and her co-star, Mel Ferrer, announced they were having a party for the cast and crew at Dinty Moore's. Before the party began, they told the Dinty Moore management to be sure to close the bar and announce curfew by 12:30.

And they arranged that the show would end 10 minutes later than" usual, so the party actually ran only about an hour. The guests were somewhat miffed. THESE TWO STORIES illustrate one basic part of Audrey Hepburn's make-up that many people nowadays overlook she's a human being, with good features and bad just like anybody else. Since her smashing triumphs on stage and screen, many of her fans have somehow reached the conclusion that she is something superhuman, half sprite, half woman. She isn't.

She's very real. She has her likes and dislikes, her love affairs, her weak points, her strong points. Those wrho know her best say she's about the most normal person around. For Audrey Hepburn is being hailed by critics as the most promising actress of this era. Some day she may be classed with Sarah Bernhardt and El-eanore Duse.

Actually, she's at the beginning of her career, yet she is the most sought after performer in the business today. She has had only two decent-sized roles in movies, yet her studio. Paramount, considers her their prize. She has had only two decent-sized roles on the stage, yet Broadway is at her feet. SHE'S WON AWARDS top awards in both.

She's packed them in at the box office. She's had fabulous offers in dozens of different fields. She could have her pick of suitors. She is just now reaching the large money and ahead of her loom years of fat checks. She's a lucky girl.

When you talk to Audrey Hepburn's friends and associates, it isn't easy to form a good Saroyan Returns NEW YORK (UP) William Saroyan. who w-as quite a writer in the theater for a few seasons before the war but has had little to do with Broadway since, is back in the news again. His agent, Harold Matson, reports that the author and George Abbott, the veteran producer-director author, will co-author a musical play based on an outline by Saroyan. It. has no title as yet.

but it is known to be a story built around San Francisco, Saroy-an's favorite city. The producing team of Frederick Brisson, Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince, which struck pay-dirt the first time out with the current "The Pajama Game," hopes to have the Saroyan Abbott script for presentation in the fall of 1955. Abbott was co-author and co-director of "The Pajama Game." Beauty Crowning To Be On Video NEW YORK (UP) The Philco Corp.

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To complicate this mixture, 1 he marriage was unhappy, and her parents were divorced when she was 10. Even earlier, she had been leading a split life winters at school in England, summers at her father's estate in Belgium, where she was born. Then there was another complication, the war. It began when she was 10. She had been in England, in comparative safety, but, curiously, her mother took her to the family home in Holland.

So, for six years, she lived under the Nazis. The turning point in her life came one day in 1940. She was 11, living in Arnheim, Holland. The Sadler's Wells ballet troupe made one of its last appearances on the continent, and little Audrey Hepburn was in the audience. When the performance was over, she'd made up her mind.

She was going to be a ballet dancer. WITH THE END of the war, ballet became her life. She studied rigorously, and her long legs grew more and more skillful, more and more shapely. Shapely enough, in fact, to land her a chorus girl spot in a London production of "High Button Shoes" after she moved back to England for ballet studies. It was the lure of more money in the chorus line than in ballet, that took her to that audition.

And from the chorus it was just a hop, skip and high kick to the other jobs nightclubs, revues, small movie parts. In one of these, she played a bit part with Alec Guinness in "The Lavender Hill Mob." In another, she was shipped to Monte Carlo for location shots. There she was spotted by the French author, Collette. Collette's novel, "Gigi," had been made into a play by Anita Loos, and the fabulous French WOOD Y'S FEATURING The Finest of MEXIGAN FOODS also STEAKS CHICKEN SHRIMP Open Sundays 4 P.M. to 10 P.M.

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Now the question is: Can a big, masculne film star run about with a girl as attractive as Betty and no romance? Has someone repealed the law of propinquity? Do you exchange glances all day with a friend? Hold hands with a friend? Kiss a friend? Indubitably, said Rock but not in so many syllables. Of course, said Betty. make it axxmity Affair ire. (M showblace of HONK Mwfn A I Cookd by fefrigetstion! A M-l AM- (Son.from XI) BuizMary Helen Dublin Youfc Host hosted Sl'N'DAY SPF.rlAT. Chirken and diimplini: like grandma used to make.

DUBLIN (UP) Rock Hudson, has a problem these days. He wants to stay good friends with the pirl everybody in the world seems to want him to marry. Her name is Betty Abbott, I Oth BIG WEEK! free porVmg for conche room gyetH THREE says something to her about an award or a big honor of any sort, she'll generally say, "Oh not yet wait until I get as big as Jean Simmons." Miss Simmons, the beautiful young English actress, is a performer Audrey Hepburn admires tremendously. Of the veteran actresses, she stands in particular awe of 1 Lynn Fon-tanne, Katherine Cornell and Vivien Leigh. Audrey Hepburn's mysterious quality of being simultaneously down-to-earth and out-of-this-world may spring from her curious background.

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