To not 'get' Audrey Hepburn?

[MinesaBottle]

That chocolate ad has just been on and it got me thinking...I just don't get her appeal. I know she did fantastic work when older, I'm talking about when she was a film star and everyone seemed to think she was sooooo incredible. I don't get it - but I'm aware it's a subjective opinion - all I see is an annoying, simpering girly girl who also happens to look good in a frock.

I await my flaming from Audrey fans

YABU. Audrey Hepburn is idolised because she is somehow able to convey the mixture of elegance, charm, humour, warmth, kindness, dignity, intelligence, along with a tomboyish spunk which is unique. Many celebs/actresses can have several of the above, but few, if any, all.

Watch Sabrina - both versions, and the comparison will highlight what made Audrey Hepburn so beloved and so copied.

Re-reading the OP - simpering? Oh dear. Really, really not the right word.

I think she is really pretty, but not seen any of her films. Marilyn was really beautiful I thought.
minesabottle: me too about Jackie O - ?? I believe she was a fashion icon of her time, but she did get involved with some dodgy men in my opinion. in a book by Kathy Kelly American author I read years ago, she lifted the lid on the Kennedy family, that was a real eye opener. in the days before the internet people got away with so much more!

I like Audrey Hepburn. She conducted herself with grace.

I thought the weight issue was to do with functional GI disorders to do with her connective tissue disorder.

The TV ad is ridiculous but Audrey Hepburn lead an incredible life. Not sure what's not to get.

She worked for the resistance by carrying notes in her shoes. They knew she was a safe bet as she was so tiny she'd be unlikely to be stopped. She was amazingly brave and was much more than a 'simpering' face in screen.

The ad is truly awful & an insult to her memory, it's just cringeworthy.

Audrey Hepburn amongst everything else was a style icon, I think Posh tries and fails to emulate her.

I'm a huge fan but the chocolate ads make me angry they're awful.

I see on the ads her image is copyright of her sons. I take it that means they gave the ok for them? Slightly crass IMO

The film with Cary Grant is Charade.

I think a big part of her appeal is that she had a look - you know instantly who it is when you see photos. Very stylised.

My favourite of her films is Roman Holiday. I find BaT a bit irritating.

No I never really got Audrey Hepburn. However I do get Judy Garland. I recently saw her in a film called Easter Parade with Fred Astaire. I never realized how absolutely talented she was. What a voice. She really was a Hollywood great.

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She spoke five languages as well: English, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian.

But meh, yeah, don't get the fuss.

Her Cockeny accent in My Fair Lady is as bad as Dick Van Dyke's in Mary Poppins, I don't understand why he gets torn apart for that and she doesn't? And it's not even her singing!

Really Julie Andrew should have played Eliza Doolittle as she created the role on Broadway, but because she wasn't well known enough they gave the film part to Audrey instead. Instead Julie played Mary Poppins(filmed at the same time as MFL) and won an Oscar for it whilst Audrey got nothing.

Who had the last laugh then?

I'd suggest Julie Andrews probably didn't have the 'last laugh', because that would make her look more than a little bitter, and other people probably care more about than she ever did/does.

Besides, given that Audrey won an Oscar, Bafta, Grammy, Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony, she did OK...

Ive never said this before i dont get her either she was a remarkable woman though but we are just bombarded with her image of beauty iyswim she was much more than that

sourcers picture is the real Audrey imo not the face you see on posters

Bi think she is the epitome of chic.

Absolutely beautiful and such a great ambassador .

I would love to look like her.

I think Audrey was stunning, she had beauty that Marilyn etc just didnt have. They were sexy,not beautiful.

When Julie Andrews got the Oscar for Mary Poppins she allegedly told the press "My thanks to Mr. Jack L. Warner, who made this all possible." This is because Jack Warner refused to cast her in My Fair Lady. That suggests it rankled a bit even in the moment of her triumph!

I've never got it either I find her unattractive if I'm honest

Christ, they're really milking the living fuck out of that advert aren't they?

I liked it at first, but after being subjected to it eleventy million times, it soon lost its appeal.

I thought she was beautiful. Not necessarily a great actress*. But there are different types of beauty, aren't there - amongst white women, I think, you have two archetypes: the blonde, voluptuous Marilyn Monroe and the slender, dark Audrey Hepburn. People tend to prefer one or another.

• Also: couldn't sing. Her part in My Fair Lady was sung by Marni Nixon, who also sang many other famous roles such as Deborah Kerr's part in The King and I and Natalie Wood's in West Side Story.

Good grief. I know beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder, but unattractive?

This reminds me of when there was a thread about Helena Bonham-Carter and somebody said they didn't get all the fuss about her, she just looked ordinary. I was gobsmacked.

What do you make of Kristin Scott Thomas? There's another one with beautiful bone structure.

KST is on the top of DH's list.

She is undeniably beautiful.