I don't like her...


...and I can't put my finger on it.

I've seen all of her biggest movies: Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady, Sabrina, Charade, How to Steal a Million, Roman Holiday, and perhaps one more I'm forgetting, so it's not because I haven't seen her enough.

Perhaps it's because I don't understand the obsession that especially young women have with her; what makes her so iconic.

I don't feel like she paved the way for new ideas, or showed how women can be strong. She was elegant, but shallow in my mind. I'm not saying that she is shallow, but that's how I can't help but feel about her.

Does anyone else feel the same way? Any thoughts? I'm having a hard time understanding myself, to be honest.

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I watched again "Charade" last week and also cannot comprehend the obsession. She was very pretty indeed but I don't find that she was a very good actress.
Of course, I am going to get blasted for that one since you can't have your own opinion on IMDB. But that's what it is... just MY opinion.

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Exactly the same here. I'm so glad I'm not alone!

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Nope, I love her.

I SAY GOOD DAY.





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I agree with you. I don't see what was so special about her. I just watched Funny Face last night and was not in the least impressed. I thought the pairing of her and Fred Astair was creepy. He was way older than her. I just kept thinking the whole time "eat a burger Audrey" you look anorexic! I disliked her in My Fair Lady. That should have been Julie Andrews who can act AND sing. She played the role on broadway, she should have played it on the big screen. The only role I kind of liked was Wait Until Dark.

"Well, make something up!"/RG

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I dont like Funny Face either. Fred Astaire was way too old for her. And it just wasn't the best movie at all. i dont even really like it. But unfortunately i bought it because i thought "well i love audrey hepburn so i must love this!". Nope.

Honestly i love HER, not her acting or fashion "icon". I like her as a person. See, i think its different for me because i read books on her and learned about how she suffered through World War 1 and that she never even wanted to be an actress (she wanted to be a ballet dancer) but she ended up doing acting for money reasons. She was always optimistic, even during the War World 2 and cancer, so yeah...thats why i love her.

Ok that was a really long post about my love for audrey. Sorry...lol

"I bet your wondering what a place like this is doing in a girl like me" -The Mummy

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Ok - I was a bit harsh on her. SHE was amazing and I would have liked to've known her in person - I just was not impressed with her as an actress. I am sure there are many, many actresses out there who are better at their craft, but are miserable excuses for human beings.

"Well, make something up!"/RG

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I just kept thinking the whole time "eat a burger Audrey" you look anorexic!
Well...she looked anorexic because she was anorexic. Shirley MacLaine said she used to eat a hardboiled egg for lunch, and when Patricia Neal dined at her house she was offered steamed fish, and that was it.

Marjorie Rosen wrote in her classic cinema study Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies & the American Dream that it was Hepburn's extreme (and unnatural) slenderness that made women think back to that time in adolescence when they felt safe, before they started to develop. And this made them bond with her.




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So, how did Ms.Rosen reach her conclusion?

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