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Warrior: Audrey Hepburn, to be published September 28, 2021, is the follow up to biographer Robert Matzen‘s 2019 international bestseller Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II and the first book to focus on the iconic actress’ final chapter, which surpassed the plot twist of any movie.
Warrior: Audrey Hepburn completes the story arc of Robert Matzen’s Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II. Hepburn’s experiences in wartime, including the murder of family members, her survival through combat and starvation conditions, and work on behalf of the Dutch Resistance, gave her the determination to become a humanitarian for Unicef and the fearlessness to charge into war-torn countries in the Third World on behalf of children and their mothers in desperate need. She set the standard for celebrity humanitarians and–according to her son Luca Dotti–ultimately gave her life for the causes she espoused.
Decades before it became cool to care,...
Warrior: Audrey Hepburn completes the story arc of Robert Matzen’s Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II. Hepburn’s experiences in wartime, including the murder of family members, her survival through combat and starvation conditions, and work on behalf of the Dutch Resistance, gave her the determination to become a humanitarian for Unicef and the fearlessness to charge into war-torn countries in the Third World on behalf of children and their mothers in desperate need. She set the standard for celebrity humanitarians and–according to her son Luca Dotti–ultimately gave her life for the causes she espoused.
Decades before it became cool to care,...
- 6/13/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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In stories of doomed World War II gallantry, little is as romanticized as Operation Market Garden. A technical failure by the Allied Powers to defeat the Nazis in 1944, this invasion of the Netherlands left British paratroopers stranded around a bridge in Arnhem, far too removed from their tanks to hold the line. Nevertheless, the bravery of those Airborne “Red Devils” has lived on in pop culture, as have the Dutch resistance fighters who sheltered them. What has been largely forgotten is that among those courageous souls was… a teenaged Audrey Hepburn? For about a week, in fact, the future movie star kept a Red Devil hidden in the cellar.
This image, of wartorn tenacity, is hardly the type associated with Hepburn in the popular imagination. To this day, she’s remembered as the ultimate Givenchy girl, an ethereal presence who took her breakfasts at Tiffany’s, and always in a little black dress.
This image, of wartorn tenacity, is hardly the type associated with Hepburn in the popular imagination. To this day, she’s remembered as the ultimate Givenchy girl, an ethereal presence who took her breakfasts at Tiffany’s, and always in a little black dress.
- 4/15/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
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Audrey Hepburn made less than 20 films during her legendary career, but they were so beloved — Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Sabrina, to name a few — that she became one of Hollywood’s most beloved and enduring stars.
But there was one role she was never able to play: that of Anne Frank.
While Hepburn never met Frank, they lived parallel lives. They were the same age, lived just 60 miles apart, and suffered the horror of the German occupation of Holland, notes Robert Matzen in his new book Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, excerpted exclusively in this week’s People.
But there was one role she was never able to play: that of Anne Frank.
While Hepburn never met Frank, they lived parallel lives. They were the same age, lived just 60 miles apart, and suffered the horror of the German occupation of Holland, notes Robert Matzen in his new book Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, excerpted exclusively in this week’s People.
- 4/5/2019
- by Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
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Audrey Hepburn was the epitome of beauty, chic and grace worldwide, but she was much more than a style icon.
As a new biography Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, excerpted exclusively in this week’s People, reveals, it was her experiences during Germany’s five-year occupation of Holland during World War II that truly shaped her.
While more has come out in recent years about her war experience, Robert Matzen’s book reveals harrowing new details about how a young Hepburn battled severe malnutrition, particularly during what was known as the “Hunger Winter” of 1944-45.
Leading up to that brutally cold winter,...
As a new biography Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, excerpted exclusively in this week’s People, reveals, it was her experiences during Germany’s five-year occupation of Holland during World War II that truly shaped her.
While more has come out in recent years about her war experience, Robert Matzen’s book reveals harrowing new details about how a young Hepburn battled severe malnutrition, particularly during what was known as the “Hunger Winter” of 1944-45.
Leading up to that brutally cold winter,...
- 4/4/2019
- by Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
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Onscreen, Audrey Hepburn‘s life often seemed like a fairytale, but the actress’ real-life story was shadowed by lasting trauma from her experiences during World War II.
It was something she rarely spoke of in detail.
Part of the trauma was rooted in her mother Dutch Baroness Ella van Heemstra’s early Nazi sympathies, which are detailed in a new biography Dutch Girl by Robert Matzen, excerpted by People in this week’s issue.
Says Matzen: Hepburn “feared Ella’s Nazi past would kill her career, but still, they remained close.”
Ella had met Adolf Hitler in 1935 and wrote he...
It was something she rarely spoke of in detail.
Part of the trauma was rooted in her mother Dutch Baroness Ella van Heemstra’s early Nazi sympathies, which are detailed in a new biography Dutch Girl by Robert Matzen, excerpted by People in this week’s issue.
Says Matzen: Hepburn “feared Ella’s Nazi past would kill her career, but still, they remained close.”
Ella had met Adolf Hitler in 1935 and wrote he...
- 4/3/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
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The world fell in love with her doe-eyed beauty and stylish perfection in such films as Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Sabrina, but Audrey Hepburn‘s real-life story was always far more complicated.
“When my mother told us about her life, she never talked about Hollywood or her films,” says her younger son Luca Dotti, 49. “She would tell us stories about the war. And she spoke about good and evil.”
Even as a young boy he says, “I knew from her eyes, her expressions, and her shaky hands that there was more to the story.”
26 years after her death, a new book,...
“When my mother told us about her life, she never talked about Hollywood or her films,” says her younger son Luca Dotti, 49. “She would tell us stories about the war. And she spoke about good and evil.”
Even as a young boy he says, “I knew from her eyes, her expressions, and her shaky hands that there was more to the story.”
26 years after her death, a new book,...
- 4/3/2019
- by Liz McNeil
- PEOPLE.com
TheWrap takes a look at some fun trivia about “It’s a Wonderful Life” directed by Frank Capra, courtesy of Alonso Duralde, IMDb and Old Hollywood biographer Robert Matzen in his new book, “Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe.”
According to Alonso Duralde’s book, “Have Yourself a Very Movie Christmas,” Uncle Billy actor Thomas Mitchell was actually considered to play Mr. Potter, but Lionel Barrymore got the role because of his popularity after radio versions of “A Christmas Carol.”
Jimmy the Raven appeared in Capra’s “You Can’t Take It With You” (1938) and other post-“Wonderful Life” Capra movies.
The film was such a financial disappointment that it busted Capra’s production company, Liberty Films.
“It’s a Wonderful Life” was the first and last time Capra produced, financed, directed and co-wrote a film.
The original screenplay began with a scene in Benjamin Franklin’s workshop in heaven.
According to Alonso Duralde’s book, “Have Yourself a Very Movie Christmas,” Uncle Billy actor Thomas Mitchell was actually considered to play Mr. Potter, but Lionel Barrymore got the role because of his popularity after radio versions of “A Christmas Carol.”
Jimmy the Raven appeared in Capra’s “You Can’t Take It With You” (1938) and other post-“Wonderful Life” Capra movies.
The film was such a financial disappointment that it busted Capra’s production company, Liberty Films.
“It’s a Wonderful Life” was the first and last time Capra produced, financed, directed and co-wrote a film.
The original screenplay began with a scene in Benjamin Franklin’s workshop in heaven.
- 12/24/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven and Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
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