Happy Birthday Audrey!

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others." — Audrey Hepburn
I really wanted to blog about this yesterday because her birthday was yesterday but lets celebrate it today since I was unbelievably busy yesterday. Why I love this woman, she is by far my FAVORITE classic hollywood actress. I fully believe there has not been anyone since Audrey who has been as classy or as lovely as she was. The Real Audrey Hepburn story begins with a little girl who experienced the cruelty and consequences of World War II and who never forgot what liberation felt like or the images of aid arriving to her and thousands like her in Holland.Although she had dreamed of becoming a prima ballerina since childhood, the war had rendered her physically incapable of it. Instead Audrey turned a lost dream into the next best thing; she took modeling jobs where she learned to work in front of the camera, used her training to compete with 4,000 dancers for one of ten spots in a chorus line and eventually, found herself in front of a motion picture camera.

(her style in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's gave us the infamous little black dress, and is actually the movie that made Rayban sunglasses famous)

Within three years the whole world would come to know Audrey as Princess Anne in Roman Holiday. And that is how we came to know her, be captivated by her, and why we are still in love with her. Within over 25 movies to her credit, there is no doubt that Audrey achieved a rarefied position as beloved actress and icon of style. Yet Audrey always considered her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador her greatest role. And that is the beauty of Audrey's legacy; that we have the opportunity to know and appreciate her gifts, both as an actress and as a devoted humanitarian. (http://www.audreyhepburn.com/)