Latham, Caroline: Audrey Hepburn.

Audrey Hepburn taught movie audiences a new way to think about feminine beauty. Slender , flatchested, with eyebrows thicker than Groucho`s and deflnltely crooked teeth, this child/woman of the Fiftles made us prefer her long neck, her uprlght carrlage, her arlstocratlc bone structure over the mere prettiness of other young actresses of her day. She was the screen`s favourlte Cinderella in Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, Love in the Afternoon; she was the beautlful and splrlted Natasha in War and Peace; and no one eise could have played Rima, the elusive sprite of the forest, In Green Mansions. In the Slxtles — wlth a little help from her frlend French deslgner Glvenchy — she comblned haute couture elegance wlth a contlnued alr of vulnerablllty. She was Holly Gollghtly, wistfully havlng breakfast outslde Tiffany`s. She was the herolne of Charade, fleelng from a klller without ever creasing her designer sult. Wearlng a ravlshlng costume of black lace she planned to steal a milllon wlth Peter O`Toole. She trembled wlth the fear of exposure while wearing the most strlklng dress at Ascot In My Fair Lady. She was voted one of the best dressed women In the world and was pald the compllment of attempted Imitation by countless women — whether or not they possessed the necessary raw materlals for the Audrey Hepburn Look. Caroline Latham, author of Katharine Hepburn and the forthcoming Grace Kelly, traces the career of this star whose fresh new Image Influenced a generatlon of movie goers.