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

i think she was beautiful, she looked very different form other actresses of the time, she was elegant and stylish

she turned her back on Hollywood and worked at what she thought was important that was giving much of her time to UNICEF

not many are willing to give up their fame and desire to be idolised and she was

Kirsten scott thomas is stunningly beautiful Its ok to not find the same people attractive I have never liked her looks

What makes someone attractive is subjective as well though. I personally don't think Kate Moss is all that special, all I see when I look at her is wonky eyed, half starved scruff bag.

Well yeah, if we're judging the woman on her looks alone then of course she's not going to appeal to everyone. No one does.

Exactly I have no idea what she is like as have never met her so am only talking about looks

I've never got her. In her young acting days she just always seemed so wet and passive. And when she wasn't being wet and passive she seemed self congratulatory and smug.

I think she was an ok enough actress (for the roles she had), and I really admire her charity work etc. But, like Marilyn Monroe, she's been turned into an irritating emblem of a face printed on t-shirts, banal quotes (probably incorrectly) attributed to her on Facebook 'yeah so true hun' type posts, and a constant idea of grace or glamour that advertising campaigns beat us over the head with. So whilst I admire Audrey the person, I don't like Audrey the icon.

I didn't know her at all really until I saw The Nun's Story. She was amazing in that, absolutely brilliant.

Love Audrey Hepburn. So beautiful and gracious and came across just such a lovely person (even in her acting). I know this is cringey and I never get all doey eyed or star struck at all but I thought she was fantastic. Just been listening to her singing Moon River from BAT, beautiful.

I get Audrey Hepburn far more than I do Marilyn Monroe. The former did geniune good in her life, both pre-fame during the war and afterwards as a UNICEF Ambassador, long before it was "cool" for famous people to be involved in such things. The latter really was nothing more than a pretty face.

Katharine Hepburn is another interesting Hollywood star of old. Though the media mostly just like to talk about her relationship with Spencer Tracey/whether she was a lesbian.

YANBU I don't get Audrey either

I don't get the whole Audrey Hebpurn thing either. I can't bear Breakfast at Tiffany's awful and dated.

I think Helena Bonham-Carter is i remarkable looks wise!

I thin Audrey Hepburn is wonderful! Looks wise, as an actress and as an ambassador. I think she is an icon, and rightly so.

I also love HBC, she looks like a lot of fun

I get Marilyn much more. Her entire life was horrific, just a litany of fear, pain and abuse from birth. She literally turned something into nothing. It was tragic that she couldn't escape her demons.

Hepburn was a privileged woman who remained privileged. Both her parents were Nazis and it's likely her supposed involvement with the resistance is a sanitised studio construct.

HBC is great. I worked with a relative of hers in the early 90s and she used to meet him for lunch, she was so timid. It's nice to see she's confident these days.

Wow, I thought everyone loved Audrey, have never met anyone who didn't
She's beautiful, a great actress, love her timeless style and as well as all this was a lovely gracious woman who devoted many of her years to charities.
Roman holiday is one of my favourite films as is funny face and breakfast at Tiffanys deserves its reputation as one of the all time classics. So yes, I think YABVU!

Love Audrey Hepburn. Roman Holiday is probably my favourite film of all time. I think she was very attractive but in a striking, atypical gamine sort of way, not at all like the cookie cutter lookalikes we usually see onscreen. And she was an excellent actress too.

Alisvolatropolis
Marilyn Monroe has been attributed with helping Ella Fitzgerald start her singing career. In the 1940s no-one would give her a gig because she was black, and Monroe told the owner of an LA nightclub that if he gave Fitzgerald the gig, she'd be in the front row every night.
He couldn't turn down the publicity, Fitzgerald got the gig and the rest is history.
So, not just a pretty face - a woman ahead of her time.

Aermingers, I have never heard that about AH. Do you have any sources? I always understood she suffered under the Nazis, nearly died of starvation, worked for the resistance. I am interested to read the other side.

Agree with you, OP. I also don't get Olivia Coleman and she's been pretty much canonised on MN.

Reading the thread now; I also prefer Marilyn Monroe, I think she had far more mystique and presence, even with all of the scandal that followed her.

There are lots of very clever women that were and their impact isn't well known; Hedy Lamarr for another one.

Tbh i bet most of mn are more attractive than hepburn to their husbands.

Personally i love the beauty of a lady or gentleman who has lived a good life, has children, grandchildren who love them, lines on her face from their experience and has stories to tell. Now that is beauty from deep within the person. The eyes sparkle as the stories are told as eyes never lie about the persin within. Hence why i love working with the elderly. (Not saying people on mn is elderly, different comments..).