The Sedalia Democrat from Sedalia, Missouri • Page 33

Audrey walks on the set, everybody stops using four-letter words. You find yourself putting your talk through a mental sieve even though you know no Even Shirley Maclaine succeed in making Audrey ease up. had plenty of qualms when we met for the first rehearsal for Children's she recalled. took me quite a while to thaw her three hours. From then on, it was one big kick.

Audrey and I had a running gag all through the picture; she was supposed to be teaching me how to dress, and I was supposed to be teaching her to cuss. Neither of us The attitude of all the people I talked to about Audrey was similar in several ways; they had nothing really detrimental to say about her; their criticism, if any, was guarded, their protectiveness absolute. What is the relationship between Audrey and the No. 1 man in her life, husband Mel Ferrer? A close acquaintance of told me; is very concerned about success. Any man would be.

why Mel, to my mind, works harder and is more aggressive about his own career than anybody I have ever known. trying very hard to be a director and to do everything without his wife. Audrey tries to help by catering to him as few wives seen proof of this on many occasions, particularly in the way she provides a home for him wherever they are. OTELS and boardinghouse living have been the rule for me since I was a little she once told me. I married Mel, it mattered little; I was young and ambitious and dedicated to my work.

But when 1 became Mrs. Mel Ferrer, I wanted to make a home for my husband under whatever circumstances we had to live. And since we have a permanent home anywhere except for our rented, furnished, two-bedroom chalet in Switzerland, I learned to make the best of life in a hotel How she went about it was obvious to me a few years ago when they moved into the Rafael Hotel in Paris. Within an hour after she and Mel arrived, Audrey had cleared from their suite all typical hotel items such as ashtrays decorated with the Arch of Triumph, pamphlets listing various hotel services, and picture postcards of the bar and party room. Then she unpacked personal belongings, including silver candlesticks, records, books, pictures, and enough other paraphernalia to fill two trunks.

She had packed it all herself. Once before, when she had left the packing to someone else, Mel had needed his cuff links on the night of their arrival and she had to go through six huge trunks before she located them. think this was fair to she told me. considered it my responsibility not to let it happen Her next task was to rearrange the furniture. Not being the type who stands around in the corner directing traffic, she chose a time when Mel was out and personally helped move heavy pieces around until everything was placed where she wanted it.

Then she remembered a little Audrey is visited by husband Mel Ferrer on the set of Fair L4idy. dressed as a poor flower girl. table that had been in their suite during their previous visit. She called the concierge to get it for her. sorry, Mrs.

he apologized, piece is in another afraid the other suite will just have to do without she said politely but firmly. She got the table. When Mel walked into their suite later that night, a big grin formed on his face. see done it he said and then bussed Audrey on the cheek. Evidence of thriftiness is apparent in every phase of her life.

Although she is considered one of the best-dressed women in the world, she owns only one fur, a mink lining which can be inserted in several coats. It was made from a mink coat acquired in 1951. Most of her dresses can be worn for several occasions. In a weak moment, she once ordered three dresses at the same time from one of the better Paris couturiers. Upon their delivery, she hastily hung them in a closet so she be reminded of the money she had splurged.

It took her another week to get adjusted to the idea; then she took out one dress at a time. This tendency is apparent in her presents for Mel. Henry Rogers told me, will give him a sweater, sandals, or a sports jacket. Always something Audrey once told me that one of her chief aims in life was to have she just referring to dollars and cents. Considering the disturbing and frightening years of her childhood and adolescence, this is understandable.

Audrey was born Audrey Kathleen Hepburn- Ruston in Brussels, on May 4, 1929. Her father, J. A. Hepburn-Ruston, has variously been described as an English businessman, a bank- Audrey appears with another perennially popular star, Cary Grant, in the romantic suspense comedy, V. March 8, issi er, and an Irish promoter.

At any rate, he was the third husband of the former Baroness Van Heemstra, who is Dutch. The Baroness had two sons, Ian and Alexander, by her first marriage. parents were divorced when she was six, and she has never seen her father since. When World War II broke out, the Baroness decided to move her family from Belgium to Holland because she felt they would avoid the brunt of the fighting there. But it was like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

Bombing attacks on Amsterdam soon drove them from that city to home in Arnhem was promptly occupied by the Germans. Because Audrey was a British citizen and particularly vulnerable to imprisonment, she stayed off the streets as much as possible. Her older half brother, Ian, was imprisoned in a German slave-labor camp. Her younger half brother, Alexander, joined the underground. One of her uncles was seized as a hostage by the Nazis and shot in reprisal for a blown-up troop train.

Audrey herself carried messages for the underground on the way to school and gave dance recitals to raise money for the resistance. HE GOT ALONG without milk, butter, eggs, and sugar; meat was a luxury. And so the girl who, by her own description, was already very plain and bony thin, became a shadow of her former self. She spent most of her formative years bewildered and afraid but always too proud to show her feelings or panic. For Audrey, one of the most frightening moments of the war occurred after the battle of Arnhem was over.

Because a German squad had set up a radio transmitter on the upper floor of the house in which she was living, the British suspected her family to be collaborators. They burst through the front door and pointed their machine guns at the frightened, undernourished 15-year-old who stared at them with big eyes out of hollow cheeks. Audrey managed to stutter out an explanation just in time to save her life. The war lasted only a few months longer, but her family had already lost all their possessions. Audrey went to England and enrolled in a ballet school.

To support herself and her mother, she worked as a $13-a-week model and later as a dental assistant. After making the rounds for months, she was Anally accepted into the chorus of a stage musical and, following that, got a bit part in a movie on location on the Riviera. It was in Monte Carlo that she was spotted by the famous French writer, Colette, who decided that Audrey was the right girl to play the title role in the New York production of From there she stepped into William opposite Gregory Peck, which proved the beginning of a career which has made her the second-highest-paid actress in the world (Elizabeth Taylor is first). appeal is easy to account for, but is not so apparent. Could it be that, even in this age, the average woman yearns to be a that the average man has an unfashionable, but unquenchable, admiration for such suppcmedly outdated beauty? Family Weekly, March.