0:00:02 > 0:00:03Won't you join me?
0:00:03 > 0:00:07'Yes, join Audrey Hepburn as you've never seen her before.'
0:00:08 > 0:00:11We all think we know Audrey Hepburn...
0:00:11 > 0:00:12WHISTLES
0:00:13 > 0:00:15..the ultimate style icon,
0:00:15 > 0:00:18the star of Breakfast At Tiffany's.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21An Oscar winner at just 24.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26Audrey Hepburn, the girl who never planned to be an actress,
0:00:26 > 0:00:29found herself here, the new star of Hollywood.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36Beneath the success and glamour,
0:00:36 > 0:00:38there is so much more to Audrey's story.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43I'm Darcey Bussell and this is my journey
0:00:43 > 0:00:47to find out about the Audrey who has always inspired and intrigued me.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54You can see her soul through her eyes.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56And she was gentle.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58And calm.
0:00:58 > 0:00:59And deep.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04As a child, Audrey survived a brutal war.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06I've learned she danced her way to fame,
0:01:06 > 0:01:08escaping the sadness of her past.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12It harks back to her father leaving the household,
0:01:12 > 0:01:14which was one of the biggest shocks of her life.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19From the first time I saw her, Audrey's beauty,
0:01:19 > 0:01:23charm and grace captured my heart.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25As it clearly did for so many.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30And yet, I think Audrey was always searching for love.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Her life story is, in a way, like a fairy tale,
0:01:33 > 0:01:36because real fairy tales are not all about good stuff.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40There's terrible things that happen on the way there.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42It's this other side to Audrey,
0:01:42 > 0:01:45the darkness she encountered at times in her life,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48that I believe is the essence of her story.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Join me in finding the unknown Audrey Hepburn.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12Here in the Alps, high above Lake Lucerne,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15is where Audrey liked to retreat from Hollywood.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19One of the most surprising things about her is
0:02:19 > 0:02:22she spent most of her adult life in Switzerland.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29To understand Audrey, this is the first place I've come to.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33I always felt there was much more to Audrey.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Maybe not just the Hollywood star.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39But happier in Europe, away from the glitz and glamour.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45It's here that I'm meeting Audrey's eldest son, Sean.
0:02:45 > 0:02:50He has given me a private album of his mother's photos and documents.
0:02:50 > 0:02:55They span her whole life, showing me her everyday world.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58A tantalising glimpse of the Audrey we don't know.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01The real person behind the icon.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05She said, "When I started, I didn't know acting, I didn't know this.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08"And I never thought of myself throughout life
0:03:08 > 0:03:10"as very beautiful or special."
0:03:11 > 0:03:13And yet, Audrey was special.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17She burst onto the screen with a star part in a Hollywood movie,
0:03:17 > 0:03:21entirely filmed in one of the most glamorous cities in the world.
0:03:34 > 0:03:40Paramount Pictures sent Audrey to Rome in the summer of 1952
0:03:40 > 0:03:41for her first leading role,
0:03:41 > 0:03:45opposite the legendary Hollywood screen actor Gregory Peck.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47It was a dream come true.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50It's unbelievably impressive, isn't it,
0:03:50 > 0:03:54to think that Audrey was driving around here...
0:03:56 > 0:03:57..in a little moped.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58HORN BEEPS
0:04:00 > 0:04:02I think I needed to get my indicator off!
0:04:07 > 0:04:09I've already met Sean.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12And now I'm meeting Audrey's other son, Luca,
0:04:12 > 0:04:13who lives in Rome.
0:04:13 > 0:04:18His mother told him what it was like to be an overnight sensation.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20How she stayed here, when filming,
0:04:20 > 0:04:23at the Hassler, Rome's most expensive hotel
0:04:23 > 0:04:25in the heart of the city.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31She took to the high life as if born to it.
0:04:31 > 0:04:32And what a high life it was!
0:04:33 > 0:04:34Wow!
0:04:35 > 0:04:36So beautiful!
0:04:38 > 0:04:41I can't believe that is 360 degrees, isn't it?
0:04:41 > 0:04:43And this is the one thing about Rome, the view,
0:04:43 > 0:04:45the view from the roofs.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50And this was exactly the same view my mother had
0:04:50 > 0:04:53when she was staying here at the Hassler.
0:04:53 > 0:04:54So just one floor below? Oh, my...!
0:04:54 > 0:04:55Just one floor below.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58The one thing my mother enjoyed,
0:04:58 > 0:04:59was most surprised at,
0:04:59 > 0:05:02everybody's little garden on the roof.
0:05:02 > 0:05:06She must have been just flabbergasted coming from...
0:05:06 > 0:05:08And I think everybody is, you know, when you come to Rome.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Anybody that would come here.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Beautiful.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16You feel so privileged. So privileged.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18Oh...!
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Roman Holiday is one of my favourite films.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26It tells the story of a titled girl,
0:05:26 > 0:05:30who cuts loose from her old life to run wild in Rome.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33'She's a princess. She's beautiful.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35'And, confidentially, she's a pixie.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37'One night, she's the guest of honour
0:05:37 > 0:05:39'at a glittering state reception.
0:05:39 > 0:05:40'And the very next night...
0:05:40 > 0:05:43You have my permission to withdraw.
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Thank you very much.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49'How did this cute little surprise package wind up in Greg's apartment?
0:05:49 > 0:05:51'That's what he's wondering, too.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53'And wait till you see the princess let her hair down!'
0:05:58 > 0:06:00I think she was so different
0:06:00 > 0:06:03from what any other actress was doing at that time
0:06:03 > 0:06:05or what any other film they were producing at that time.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12Audrey was perfectly cast as a princess in Roman Holiday.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Her own background was aristocratic
0:06:14 > 0:06:17and then the family fell on hard times.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19She, too, was breaking free.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25She always told me that it was like a fairy tale, you know?
0:06:25 > 0:06:29She was struck by the luck of being here, you know?
0:06:29 > 0:06:30It was like...
0:06:30 > 0:06:33And it went very well with the story of the movie.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35So it was like two fairy tales in one.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41It was her first appearance as a star
0:06:41 > 0:06:43and Audrey's charisma was immediate.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47She became one of the most photographed women in Rome.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53I'm on my way to Harry's Bar to meet paparazzi photographer
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Reno "The King" Barillari.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59When Roman Holiday was shooting,
0:06:59 > 0:07:04he waited 15 hours every day to photograph Audrey Hepburn.
0:07:04 > 0:07:05SPEAKS IN ITALIAN
0:07:08 > 0:07:10- INTERPRETER:- Now I'll let you see something lovely.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Look at this photo.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16This photo, not that I did it, but look how amazing it is.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19It was in the Piazza Espana and I was with Audrey Hepburn.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24What was it like photographing Audrey Hepburn?
0:07:24 > 0:07:25REPLIES IN ITALIAN
0:07:28 > 0:07:31- INTERPRETER:- For me, Audrey Hepburn was really important
0:07:31 > 0:07:34from a journalistic and photographic point of view
0:07:34 > 0:07:37because she became sought after all over the world.
0:07:37 > 0:07:38In America.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39In Spain.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40In Switzerland.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42In England.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44You could always sell a photo of her,
0:07:44 > 0:07:47even when she was out and about shopping.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Those photographs always sold.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56SPEAKS IN ITALIAN
0:07:57 > 0:07:59- INTERPRETER:- Wherever she went, people stopped and stared.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Even the girls that worked in the shops
0:08:05 > 0:08:07would come out and look at her.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12When she was walking around,
0:08:12 > 0:08:15there was this gorgeous perfume trailing after her.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22She would always greet us. She was very approachable.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29And in the photographs, she became something even more.
0:08:29 > 0:08:30She was beautiful.
0:08:30 > 0:08:31She was fantastic.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33She looked like a Madonna.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43And yet, behind the dazzling public triumph
0:08:43 > 0:08:46was an astonishing tale of abandonment,
0:08:46 > 0:08:48courage and heartache.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55The journey to stardom began with trauma.
0:08:58 > 0:09:03Audrey's blissful childhood was marred by betrayal and tragedy,
0:09:03 > 0:09:05which would shape the rest of her life.
0:09:07 > 0:09:12Audrey was born in Belgium in 1929, to Ella,
0:09:12 > 0:09:14from a well-to-do Flemish family,
0:09:14 > 0:09:17and Joseph, an Anglo-Irishman.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20She liked to spend time with her father.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24He was joyous. Maybe not a warm father, but a joking father.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27He had his horses
0:09:27 > 0:09:29and spoke 13 languages,
0:09:29 > 0:09:30would take her gliding.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33He was a wonderful gliding pilot.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37And then everything changed.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40When she was six, Audrey's father walked out.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43He left like in those terrible stories
0:09:43 > 0:09:47where he goes out for cigarettes and he never came home. Almost.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53It was the major first blow in her emotional life.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57It played a vital role
0:09:57 > 0:09:59in making her probably more insecure
0:09:59 > 0:10:01than she needed to be.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06From then on, Audrey's childhood was unsettled.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12She was packed off to school in a small village in Kent.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Her mother decides it might be a good idea for her to learn English,
0:10:16 > 0:10:19so they sent her to boarding school.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23Although a British passport holder through her father,
0:10:23 > 0:10:26it was difficult for Audrey to fit in.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29And she feels like an outsider, but she learns English.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32And very soon the war is declared.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37And...the mother leaves for Holland,
0:10:37 > 0:10:39which is a neutral country.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51On the outbreak of war, Audrey's mother, Ella,
0:10:51 > 0:10:54sent for Audrey to join her and the extended family
0:10:54 > 0:10:58here in the Dutch market town of Arnhem.
0:11:05 > 0:11:10They were taken in in this house by Audrey's wealthy grandfather.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Wow! Beautiful room!
0:11:15 > 0:11:17So grand!
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Oh, she would've loved this space.
0:11:20 > 0:11:25And, apparently, all the furniture here, what I've been told,
0:11:25 > 0:11:26is all original.
0:11:26 > 0:11:27So, she would've had all this furniture
0:11:27 > 0:11:29while she was here as a child.
0:11:29 > 0:11:30And there's a piano.
0:11:30 > 0:11:35So I can imagine her dancing as a child in this room to music.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39No wonder she must've come here and just thought,
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Oh, I'm going to be fine here, I'm going to love this space.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Lovely sliding door.
0:11:45 > 0:11:51And you walk into what looks like a very Dutch room.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55A gentleman's room here. It's like a study.
0:11:55 > 0:12:00Maybe even her grandfather sat here, doing his paperwork.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04There's the most beautiful views out.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07No wonder, when she arrived, thinking,
0:12:07 > 0:12:10"Oh, this is the place. I'm going to feel so safe."
0:12:18 > 0:12:21It might have seemed the right thing.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24But Ella made the wrong choice bringing Audrey here.
0:12:25 > 0:12:30Audrey was uprooted, she didn't speak the language
0:12:30 > 0:12:34and the long shadow of war would soon reach her and her family.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40Within a year, the Nazis turned against the Dutch.
0:12:41 > 0:12:46In May 1940, they crossed the border and marched into Holland.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53I came across this in Audrey's own words.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57"All civilians were ordered to remain indoors
0:12:57 > 0:13:00"and to close their shutters.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02"Naturally, we peeped.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05"We saw the grey uniforms of German soldiers on foot.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09"They all held machine guns.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12"The next thing we knew, they had taken control of the town."
0:13:15 > 0:13:20And she talked about the fact that, from one day to the next,
0:13:20 > 0:13:23literally, everything you took for granted was gone.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26Your freedom to cross the street. I mean, your most...
0:13:26 > 0:13:29The things you would never think about.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31"OK, it's eight o'clock. Let's go to dinner."
0:13:31 > 0:13:32Gone.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34"Would you run out and get some milk?"
0:13:34 > 0:13:35Gone.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39And then there's no heating.
0:13:40 > 0:13:41And there's no school.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44And then there's no food.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Arnhem would not be liberated for five years.
0:13:53 > 0:13:58Audrey and her family were trapped in a brutal Nazi regime.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03The Hartenstein Museum here in Arnhem
0:14:03 > 0:14:05records some of what happened.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10200,000 Dutch civilians,
0:14:10 > 0:14:14including three-quarters of the Jewish population,
0:14:14 > 0:14:16would perish or disappear.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24It must have been terrifying for Audrey and her family.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Where they thought they were going to be safe,
0:14:28 > 0:14:30everything around them fell apart.
0:14:30 > 0:14:31The insecurities,
0:14:31 > 0:14:34the shortages of food...
0:14:35 > 0:14:37It must have been pretty scary.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43No Dutch family would escape German occupation.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49Audrey's two half-brothers were much older than she was.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Before the war, they played charades together.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Now one was in a German labour camp,
0:14:56 > 0:14:58the other in the Dutch resistance.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02They would survive the war.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Audrey's uncle would not.
0:15:05 > 0:15:10Historian Ismee Tames is a specialist in wartime Holland.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16We know that Audrey's uncle, Otto, was rounded up and actually shot.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Do you know anything about that?
0:15:19 > 0:15:21People were rounded up
0:15:21 > 0:15:25and either taken as hostages or they were killed.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28They were just, like, executed.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30And I think that's what happened to Audrey's uncle,
0:15:30 > 0:15:34that he was picked up as a...as a kind of revenge act
0:15:34 > 0:15:38for a deed by the resistance.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42Reprisals against innocent civilians
0:15:42 > 0:15:45were followed during the last winter of the war
0:15:45 > 0:15:47by the worst period of all.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51So that last year, that last winter,
0:15:51 > 0:15:53why was it called "the hunger winter"?
0:15:53 > 0:15:55To many people in the Netherlands,
0:15:55 > 0:15:57during the last months of the occupation,
0:15:57 > 0:15:59it felt like they were under siege.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01There was no food.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03There was no fuel.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05And they didn't know when to be liberated.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07I mean, especially for Audrey,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10knowing as a young child what it would have been like
0:16:10 > 0:16:13going to bed totally hungry
0:16:13 > 0:16:15and had no food that day...
0:16:15 > 0:16:17When you look at Audrey's family
0:16:17 > 0:16:22who, of course, well, had a kind of status in the Netherlands,
0:16:22 > 0:16:25they were used to, you know, a kind of luxury.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29And they were definitely not used to shortages of food.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32It was not just the agonising feeling of the hunger
0:16:32 > 0:16:37but, also, this feeling of being so vulnerable as a child.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45Audrey and her mother lived on potatoes and gruel.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Sometimes not even that.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Is it true that
0:16:51 > 0:16:53they had to actually grind down
0:16:53 > 0:16:56the tulip bulbs
0:16:56 > 0:16:57into a flour to eat?
0:16:57 > 0:16:59That's what actually happened,
0:16:59 > 0:17:03that people were making a meal out of tulip bulbs.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Audrey's health would never fully recover
0:17:07 > 0:17:09from her wartime malnutrition.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12And yet, her spirit shone through.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15We're talking about resilience.
0:17:15 > 0:17:20We're talking about the ability to go onto the next thing, regardless.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21That's resiliency.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24That's wit and survival to live.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29We may think of Audrey as an iconic actress.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34But she made her performance debut by dancing in wartime Holland.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40As I found out from this interview she gave
0:17:40 > 0:17:42for her Roman Holiday screen test.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46I didn't know how long the war was going to last,
0:17:46 > 0:17:48so I went to the ballet school and learned to dance.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54And in about 1944,
0:17:54 > 0:17:56about a year before the end of the war,
0:17:56 > 0:17:59I was quite capable of performing.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03And it was a sort of, some way in which I could...
0:18:06 > 0:18:08..make some contribution and...
0:18:08 > 0:18:13I did give performances to collect money for the underground,
0:18:13 > 0:18:14which always needed money.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17And what about the Germans, what did they do about it?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19They didn't know about it!
0:18:19 > 0:18:21You can see, actually,
0:18:21 > 0:18:24how serious it was to her what happened during the war.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31And... But, then, how kind of naughty she is, as well.
0:18:31 > 0:18:32Because it says,
0:18:32 > 0:18:34"Well, we were never going to let the Germans find out!"
0:18:34 > 0:18:35I just love that.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38And that grin that just suddenly lights up for the camera.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Now I've come to Arnhem's Municipal Theatre
0:18:51 > 0:18:56to be on the same stage where Audrey danced in defiance of the Nazis.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08I have a programme,
0:19:09 > 0:19:13which actually was a performance that Audrey did here in the theatre.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15There we are now.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19And she has quite a couple of solos,
0:19:19 > 0:19:21which is all part of the performance
0:19:21 > 0:19:25that she did to raise money for the resistance.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30That was her first true connection
0:19:30 > 0:19:33to what it means to perform
0:19:33 > 0:19:34and to be good.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36And in that case, we're talking about survival.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39We're talking about helping people to get through
0:19:39 > 0:19:40a pretty dark moment.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46After the war ended, Audrey carried on her ballet training.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49She dreamt of taking her dancing further.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52But her family lost everything in the war
0:19:52 > 0:19:54and there was no money left.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59So Audrey planned a leap into the unknown.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02She applied for a scholarship to come to London.
0:20:11 > 0:20:16In 1948, Audrey left the ruins of post-war Europe
0:20:16 > 0:20:21to take up a place at the Rambert Ballet School in Notting Hill.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25I have here a letter of Audrey's passport out.
0:20:25 > 0:20:26It says here,
0:20:26 > 0:20:28"To whom it may concern,
0:20:28 > 0:20:32"Miss Audrey Hepburn is known to me as a British subject.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36"She has been for some time a student of ballet dancing
0:20:36 > 0:20:38"and is proceeding to the United Kingdom
0:20:38 > 0:20:42"to study at the Rambert School Of Ballet Dancing."
0:20:43 > 0:20:47And it's amazing because, actually, it's dated the 10th April 1948.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51Which means that she was 19 at this time.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56And Audrey's mother came along as well.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Once she, too, hoped to go on stage,
0:20:58 > 0:21:01but her parents objected.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04Now her energies were poured into Audrey.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07And in a way, we have to accept
0:21:07 > 0:21:10that she was the great mastermind
0:21:10 > 0:21:14behind the original invention of Audrey Hepburn.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18And yet, Ella's masterminding of Audrey
0:21:18 > 0:21:21would always be tinged with envy.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24They kept this daily pressure on each other.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27There definitely was a bond there.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Close is not the way to describe it.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33They were tied to each other.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Ronald Hynd knew Audrey at ballet school.
0:21:42 > 0:21:46They took classes here, once the Rambert rehearsal rooms,
0:21:46 > 0:21:47now a private house.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51- It's looking very different.- Yes.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55- But all I can recognise are the three arched...- Yes.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57They were doors leading to the boys' dressing room
0:21:57 > 0:21:59and the girls' dressing room.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- She appeared out of the end archway...- The girls' dressing room.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06..and, suddenly, this beautiful girl with the long neck,
0:22:06 > 0:22:09beautiful shoulders, sleek hair,
0:22:09 > 0:22:10adorable face...
0:22:10 > 0:22:12- Yes.- Tallish.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16And do you remember her in rehearsal?
0:22:16 > 0:22:18She'd just arrived from Holland.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Well, she was an outsider. She was foreign.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23You know, for then, at that time, just after the war,
0:22:23 > 0:22:25that was strange.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27And then we saw her
0:22:27 > 0:22:30and occasionally I would have my hands round her waist...
0:22:30 > 0:22:33- OK...- Partnering her like this. - In the pas de deux classes.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35In the pas de deux class, yes.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37- Little lift with her.- Oh...
0:22:37 > 0:22:38I bet she was rather easy to lift.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Going through the war and probably not having the nutrition...
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- Oh, exactly.- ..and knowing she really suffered through the war...
0:22:45 > 0:22:48- Yes. Yes. - ..and through malnutrition and...
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Oh, yes. I mean...
0:22:50 > 0:22:53- Somehow, dancing makes you strong. - Yes.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56However weak you are, dancing toughens you up
0:22:56 > 0:22:58and gives you something.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05After six months and whilst still taking class with the Rambert,
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Audrey was dancing professionally.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09But not as a ballerina.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Her first job was as a chorus girl
0:23:13 > 0:23:16in a musical called High Button Shoes,
0:23:16 > 0:23:18earning £9 a week.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Audrey went on to two more hit shows,
0:23:24 > 0:23:25Sauce Piquante
0:23:25 > 0:23:27and Sauce Tartare.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32London's National Portrait Gallery is putting together
0:23:32 > 0:23:35an exhibition of Audrey's photos from that time.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41I've come to meet the curator, Terence Pepper,
0:23:41 > 0:23:44to find out if Audrey stood out even then.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53And these are her, what, first pictures as a chorus girl.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55She's dancing with her partner, Marcel Le Bon here.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58- Her first boyfriend. - Yeah, her first boyfriend.
0:23:58 > 0:23:59Her first serious boyfriend, yes.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Who she was going to go on tour with and so on,
0:24:02 > 0:24:05but something went wrong and they split up.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10A lot of people sort of referred to her as "the girl with the eyes".
0:24:10 > 0:24:13She had this sort of magnetic look.
0:24:14 > 0:24:15Her personality came through.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17I think it's because her eyes, the whites of the eyes,
0:24:17 > 0:24:19just stand out straightaway.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21She obviously knew how to use her eyes.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Yes, she really sort of fixed her eye on to you.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Because they're beautiful girls as well, but they just don't stand out.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29You immediately go to her, don't you? Yeah.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32I think this is lovely because she is quite cheeky,
0:24:32 > 0:24:34- you know, like a little pixie in this.- Exactly, yes.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36But this is Sauce Piquante.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40She is representing champagne, according to the caption.
0:24:40 > 0:24:41Bubbly and bright.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Terence, I've got something to show you.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Thanks for showing me such an amazing collection.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48- Wow, what have you got? - I have here a letter.
0:24:48 > 0:24:54"Dear Miss Hepburn, I saw you in Sauce Piquante last night
0:24:54 > 0:24:56"and I think you were marvellous.
0:24:56 > 0:25:01"I wish I were a rich man instead of a butcher's assistant.
0:25:02 > 0:25:07"But I feel you will pardon liberty if I ask you
0:25:07 > 0:25:10"could you please send a photograph that I may keep?"
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Oh, that's wonderful to have a fan letter
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- that's survived all those years. - I know. I know.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17And, obviously, that she kept, that she was very proud of.
0:25:17 > 0:25:18Gosh. Wow.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32There was admiration from her peers as well.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34British actress, Vanessa Redgrave,
0:25:34 > 0:25:35also studied at The Ballet Rambert
0:25:35 > 0:25:38before going to drama school in the '50s.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Vanessa, I heard that you wanted to be a dancer
0:25:42 > 0:25:45and you actually trained with Audrey Hepburn.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48- Well, Audrey was older than me.- Yes.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51And a vivid memory.
0:25:51 > 0:25:52Absolutely merry face.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55Looking at her from my own point of view...
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Wow!
0:25:57 > 0:26:01What a lovely-looking, vivacious, friendly face.
0:26:02 > 0:26:07And then other girls around were saying,
0:26:07 > 0:26:09"You know who that was?"
0:26:09 > 0:26:11And I was listening, "Who's that? Who's that?
0:26:11 > 0:26:14"I didn't know who that was. No. Who is it?"
0:26:14 > 0:26:15And then somebody said,
0:26:15 > 0:26:18"Audrey Hepburn. She just got a part in a film."
0:26:21 > 0:26:24Audrey was scouted by the British film industry
0:26:24 > 0:26:27while dancing on stage in Ciro's Nightclub.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Film and fashion historian Pamela Church Gibson
0:26:32 > 0:26:35has studied Audrey's early film career.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40So, Pamela, what were the first British films that Audrey played in?
0:26:41 > 0:26:46Well, she had small parts in a lot of forgettable films,
0:26:46 > 0:26:50but she had a bit part in the Lavender Hill Mob,
0:26:50 > 0:26:52which was an Ealing Comedy.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Ealing Comedies were really popular in Britain in the early '50s.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59And when she appears, she looks like Audrey Hepburn in this tiny clip.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Oh, Chiquita, Chiquita.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04You little princess, you.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09You run along and get yourself another birthday present.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Oh, but how sweet!
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Thank you.
0:27:19 > 0:27:20It's extraordinary.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23She's, what, only 22 in her first appearance in a British film.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25I can't actually...
0:27:25 > 0:27:28She's already got the style of Audrey Hepburn
0:27:28 > 0:27:30from the very, very beginning
0:27:30 > 0:27:32of her career in films.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Just a few tiny British film roles were a springboard
0:27:39 > 0:27:42to Audrey's international stardom.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48In 1951, a famous French writer was seeking a leading lady
0:27:48 > 0:27:52for a stage version of her best-loved novel,
0:27:52 > 0:27:54when she spotted Audrey Hepburn.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59She was making a film in Monte Carlo.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03And Colette, the novelist, who, of course, wrote Gigi,
0:28:03 > 0:28:05was being pushed across the hotel lobby.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07She was very old by this time.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10And she saw this very pretty young girl,
0:28:10 > 0:28:13you know, who was off duty,
0:28:13 > 0:28:15sort of kidding about with, you know,
0:28:15 > 0:28:17a group of people near a piano.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21And she saw instantly that this was the embodiment of Gigi
0:28:21 > 0:28:23and she famously said, "I've found my Gigi!"
0:28:25 > 0:28:29Colette recognised Audrey was the perfect person to play Gigi,
0:28:29 > 0:28:31a young, carefree courtesan.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36Audrey was to take America by storm.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41Gigi opened to packed houses on Broadway.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44By the time the play finished,
0:28:44 > 0:28:47Audrey was under contract to Paramount Pictures.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52She made it seem easy.
0:28:52 > 0:28:53You know, it was a dream.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56At the same time, she was terrified.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58She always said to us, you know,
0:28:58 > 0:29:02"People are going to wake up one day and I'll be fired."
0:29:02 > 0:29:05So she would wake up at four-thirty, five o'clock in the morning
0:29:05 > 0:29:08to read her parts, to be spot on.
0:29:13 > 0:29:17Audrey's unique image was recognised very early in her film career
0:29:17 > 0:29:20while she was making Roman Holiday.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23She came here to Cinecitta,
0:29:23 > 0:29:25the studio complex outside Rome.
0:29:31 > 0:29:35This is where make-up artist Nilo Jacopini was based.
0:29:35 > 0:29:39I've asked him to show me how the Audrey Hepburn look was born.
0:29:43 > 0:29:49Do you remember, Nilo, what colour Audrey Hepburn's eyes were?
0:29:49 > 0:29:50SPEAKS IN ITALIAN
0:29:51 > 0:29:53- INTERPRETER:- The colour was just like yours.
0:29:53 > 0:29:55The iris was the identical colour.
0:29:55 > 0:29:57They were grey and dark brown.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02I call mine khaki.
0:30:02 > 0:30:04Shitty-colour eyes!
0:30:06 > 0:30:12Do you think they really changed her look or she had her own style from the very beginning?
0:30:12 > 0:30:15- TRANSLATION:- Well, in fact,
0:30:15 > 0:30:20there was a special way of doing make-up just for her.
0:30:21 > 0:30:25She had such an individual look.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28They were then able to create a unique way of making her up
0:30:28 > 0:30:30to suit her.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36Do you believe that Audrey's dark eyebrows,
0:30:36 > 0:30:41her dark eyes, was a very contemporary look she had for her time in the 1950s?
0:30:43 > 0:30:46TRANSLATION:
0:30:46 > 0:30:49It was a very innovative look.
0:30:49 > 0:30:52It was the first time make-up was done in this way.
0:30:54 > 0:30:58It was a completely new way of making up the face to suit
0:30:58 > 0:31:02her facial structure and characteristics.
0:31:07 > 0:31:10I can't believe I have doe eyes like Audrey Hepburn now.
0:31:13 > 0:31:17The signature Audrey look crafted in Europe was a complete
0:31:17 > 0:31:21departure from American movies of the time.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25After Roman Holiday, a string of successful films followed -
0:31:25 > 0:31:28alongside Hollywood's greatest leading men.
0:31:28 > 0:31:32Sabrina with Humphrey Bogart, Funny Face with Fred Astaire
0:31:32 > 0:31:35and My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40In each, Audrey played a young girl transformed by good
0:31:40 > 0:31:43fortune from rags to riches.
0:31:46 > 0:31:50How is Audrey Hepburn so different from the Hollywood bombshells?
0:31:50 > 0:31:53You think about '50s women with their stilettos and roll-ons -
0:31:53 > 0:31:56their panty girdles. It's the antithesis of that.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59Totally different from these very womanly Hollywood stars,
0:31:59 > 0:32:02even if, like Marilyn, they're vulnerable.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05They've got these womanly bodies which
0:32:05 > 0:32:08rampage around the screen out of control.
0:32:08 > 0:32:11Audrey wasn't just different to the bombshells,
0:32:11 > 0:32:14she was beating them at their own game.
0:32:16 > 0:32:20In 1961, Audrey, now with eight Hollywood films to her name,
0:32:20 > 0:32:24won against Marilyn Monroe for the biggest part of her career.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29It was the role that would turn her into an icon.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32And every time I watch this film, I love it.
0:32:42 > 0:32:44Won't you join me?
0:32:44 > 0:32:47Yes, join Audrey Hepburn as you've never seen her before,
0:32:47 > 0:32:49kicking over the traces and bringing to life
0:32:49 > 0:32:52Truman Capote's Breakfast At Tiffany's.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54SHE WHISTLES
0:32:54 > 0:32:56I never could do that.
0:32:56 > 0:32:59I think what she does in Breakfast At Tiffany's especially is
0:32:59 > 0:33:03you see her as this incredibly elegant woman in European
0:33:03 > 0:33:06couture clothes in New York
0:33:06 > 0:33:09and at the beginning of Breakfast At Tiffany's with
0:33:09 > 0:33:12the canyons between the skyscrapers
0:33:12 > 0:33:15when she gets out of the yellow cab,
0:33:15 > 0:33:18that made New York look very attractive as a fashion backdrop.
0:33:20 > 0:33:24You have a special invitation to attend Audrey Hepburn's open
0:33:24 > 0:33:27house on the wildest night New York ever knew.
0:33:27 > 0:33:29Three actresses from the legendary party scene
0:33:29 > 0:33:32in Tiffany's are still living in Hollywood.
0:33:36 > 0:33:39I have come to California to find them
0:33:39 > 0:33:42and get their impressions of Audrey Hepburn.
0:33:44 > 0:33:49There I am in the back drinking, as usual! There I am.
0:33:49 > 0:33:53- Oh, yeah.- There's Audrey.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55I love that hairdo.
0:33:58 > 0:34:02I knew she was a dancer, not only because I knew she had done it but
0:34:02 > 0:34:06you could see the way she moved and walked, the way she carried herself.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09That's me!
0:34:09 > 0:34:13- In your gold.- In my gold lame suit.
0:34:13 > 0:34:14There I am!
0:34:14 > 0:34:18Lying on the sofa.
0:34:18 > 0:34:24- That was me.- And do you remember Audrey in those scenes?
0:34:24 > 0:34:27Oh, yes.
0:34:27 > 0:34:31Many of the big stars don't come and sit around.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34They usually just come on the set as they shoot,
0:34:34 > 0:34:35but she used to sit around a bit.
0:34:35 > 0:34:39Not a lot, but she did sit around with everyone, yeah.
0:34:39 > 0:34:43Anything you asked, "Yeah, sure." And she was so nice.
0:34:43 > 0:34:45Like you were saying, she would sit around and talk to us
0:34:45 > 0:34:47in between shots.
0:34:49 > 0:34:54Audrey mixed with everyone on set and yet her talent set her apart.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59Audrey was amazing.
0:35:01 > 0:35:06You could see her soul through her eyes and she was gentle
0:35:06 > 0:35:11and calm and deep.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13And very much herself.
0:35:15 > 0:35:20- SEAN FERRER:- Maybe that's why, in the end, the public connected to her
0:35:20 > 0:35:24because they felt down deep inside and that you cannot make up.
0:35:24 > 0:35:29You can have a beautiful career like the Elizabeth Taylors, but in the
0:35:29 > 0:35:34way you can't really pull the wool over the fact of who you really are.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37I'd marry you for your money in a minute.
0:35:37 > 0:35:41- Would you marry me for my money? - In a minute.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43So I guess it's pretty lucky neither of us is rich, huh?
0:35:44 > 0:35:47Please, darling, don't sit there looking at me like that.
0:35:47 > 0:35:50- Holly, I am in love with you. - So what?
0:35:50 > 0:35:54So what?! So plenty.
0:35:54 > 0:35:58- I love you, you belong to me. - No, people don't belong to people.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01- Of course they do.- I'm not going to let anyone put me in a cage.
0:36:10 > 0:36:14There's definitely a sadness in Breakfast At Tiffany's.
0:36:15 > 0:36:20Audrey's character, Holly Golightly, believes love is a bad thing.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26She's a kid from the country who thinks love will hold her
0:36:26 > 0:36:28back from having fun.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33It's a very tender and sweet journey.
0:36:37 > 0:36:42Everything about Audrey in Breakfast At Tiffany's has become iconic.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47In 2006, the famous costume from the film was put
0:36:47 > 0:36:49up for auction by Christies.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52Sarah Hodgson was part of the team.
0:36:52 > 0:36:56For a long time I'd wondered where this little black dress was
0:36:56 > 0:36:58and it's obviously the costume most associated with
0:36:58 > 0:37:00Audrey from that film.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02It's the first thing you see her wearing in the film,
0:37:02 > 0:37:06and for a lot of women, it's reached iconic status.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09So when I first heard it was available for auction,
0:37:09 > 0:37:10I was incredibly excited.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13You talk about the material it was made of,
0:37:13 > 0:37:16because it was very unusual, wasn't it?
0:37:16 > 0:37:19It was an amazing Italian satin.
0:37:19 > 0:37:22You can't get it any more, apparently, but it was incredible
0:37:22 > 0:37:26because the dress almost stood up on its own. It was so...
0:37:26 > 0:37:28So luxurious.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30What was the atmosphere like in the auction room?
0:37:30 > 0:37:33The build-up to the sale was fantastic and on the day,
0:37:33 > 0:37:37people were booking phone lines, they were leaving commission bids.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40It was frantic. Absolutely frantic.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43And did you believe it was ever going to go for what it went for?
0:37:43 > 0:37:47I was telephone bidding with a client who desperately wanted it
0:37:47 > 0:37:49and the bidding went quite quickly initially
0:37:49 > 0:37:52and then things started to slow down a little bit.
0:37:52 > 0:37:55It was getting higher and higher and higher
0:37:55 > 0:37:58and my client dropped out at about £350,000.
0:37:58 > 0:38:02He said, "I can't go on any more" and the eventual buyer,
0:38:02 > 0:38:05when the hammer went down at 400,000, there was literally
0:38:05 > 0:38:09a second of completely stunned silence and then applause.
0:38:09 > 0:38:11The black cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast
0:38:11 > 0:38:16At Tiffany's has gone under the hammer in London for £410,000.
0:38:16 > 0:38:19Frenzied bidding pushed the price far beyond Christie's'
0:38:19 > 0:38:21estimate of £70,000.
0:38:22 > 0:38:26A 45-year-old frock made the ten o'clock news.
0:38:27 > 0:38:31And not just the dress from Tiffany's has lived on.
0:38:31 > 0:38:36Audrey began the era of celebrities endorsing products.
0:38:37 > 0:38:41Her sunglasses in the film were made by Oliver Goldsmith.
0:38:41 > 0:38:44Claire Goldsmith is part of the family firm.
0:38:45 > 0:38:50This is our family archive. This room isn't open to the public.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52You can't come in here off the street.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55In here we house the full complete Oliver Goldsmith collection.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58It is one of the most complete ones in the world.
0:38:58 > 0:39:00Audrey Hepburn had a unique face
0:39:00 > 0:39:05and we describe it as an elfin face because it was small and we have a
0:39:05 > 0:39:09frame here that we used to do a fitting for her
0:39:09 > 0:39:11and it is minuscule.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14- Could I try it?- Absolutely.
0:39:14 > 0:39:18But that frame was a prototype in order to make a frame
0:39:18 > 0:39:21she wore in a film called Two For The Road.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24- OK, that's this picture. - Yeah, exactly.
0:39:24 > 0:39:29Here I think this is what made Audrey Hepburn iconic is
0:39:29 > 0:39:33Breakfast At Tiffany's - those glasses. These aren't the originals, are they?
0:39:33 > 0:39:37No, a replica of the originals, but they are probably
0:39:37 > 0:39:41one of the most iconic pair of sunglasses in the world, really.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44- I've never known something to be copied as much.- Yeah.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47- Can I try them on? - Please, try them on!- Wow!
0:39:51 > 0:39:55How do you think... Do you think it's me? They are so pretty.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00My grandfather had a diary and when he first met her he wrote,
0:40:00 > 0:40:03"I met a young lady today, her name is Audrey Hepburn.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05"They tell me she's going to be a really big thing."
0:40:05 > 0:40:07- And you sort of think...- Aw!
0:40:07 > 0:40:12Even then, he felt there was something about her that was
0:40:12 > 0:40:13warm and likeable, you know.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16All the things we love about her, really.
0:40:17 > 0:40:22Audrey earned 750,000 for Breakfast At Tiffany's -
0:40:22 > 0:40:25nearly 6 million today.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28Enough never to work again.
0:40:30 > 0:40:34She was at the top of her game, and yet for all its magic,
0:40:34 > 0:40:38Audrey spent as much time as possible away from Hollywood.
0:40:39 > 0:40:43- SEAN FERRER:- She never really moved to Hollywood -
0:40:43 > 0:40:45not the place nor the state of mind.
0:40:45 > 0:40:48She would go there, work very hard
0:40:48 > 0:40:52and once she was done with the publicity tour she would leave.
0:40:55 > 0:40:58Aged 30, Audrey was ready to put down roots
0:40:58 > 0:41:04and start a family with her partner actor Mel Ferrer - one of her
0:41:04 > 0:41:08Broadway co-stars who supported and guided her early career.
0:41:09 > 0:41:12My father was the one who really helped her to select the material
0:41:12 > 0:41:16and the crews and the best writers and directors and...
0:41:17 > 0:41:19You can't do it alone.
0:41:20 > 0:41:24They came here to the beautiful Swiss lakes
0:41:24 > 0:41:28looking for happiness and a refuge from fame.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30I think it was my father,
0:41:30 > 0:41:34realising she had gone from the war to a lot of hard work
0:41:34 > 0:41:38and she was literally exhausted wanting to find a place
0:41:38 > 0:41:43where they could come in between these long films.
0:41:43 > 0:41:48Lots of fresh air, beautiful climate, dry.
0:41:48 > 0:41:49Sunshine.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52Big walks in the fields.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55It's like Sound Of Music and then winters with the real snow
0:41:55 > 0:42:00and complete silence and wonderful food and chocolate and milk
0:42:00 > 0:42:02and you're...
0:42:02 > 0:42:06One of THE couples of the Hollywood golden era.
0:42:09 > 0:42:12Audrey and Mel married in the mountain village of Burgenstock -
0:42:12 > 0:42:16a film star wedding in the Alps.
0:42:17 > 0:42:22Peter Frey, who lives locally, was a page boy.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25Tell me in this picture what's happening.
0:42:25 > 0:42:29That's the moment they are walking out of the church after the wedding.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32You see the photographers here and the people standing by.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35There was quite a crowd although it was a foggy day
0:42:35 > 0:42:40and I was nine years old at the time but it was a very great day to me,
0:42:40 > 0:42:43because it was the first wedding I went to,
0:42:43 > 0:42:46and it was the wedding of Audrey Hepburn.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49- It's lovely to see Audrey's face. - Beautiful, the way she looks at us.
0:42:49 > 0:42:50Isn't it beautiful?
0:42:50 > 0:42:55Yes, Audrey's face smiling at your sister as she is throwing
0:42:55 > 0:43:00- petals on the floor.- Yes. - You look very good-looking.- Yes!
0:43:00 > 0:43:01Very good-looking.
0:43:03 > 0:43:06The plan as soon as they married was to have children right away,
0:43:06 > 0:43:10and yet this would be another source of heartbreak.
0:43:10 > 0:43:14- Was it easy for your mother to have children?- It was not.
0:43:14 > 0:43:20She lost several pregnancies before me, one of them almost
0:43:20 > 0:43:26about half term, which was a very painful experience. It was a little girl.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29Difficulties conceiving
0:43:29 > 0:43:34and two miscarriages caused great sadness for Audrey -
0:43:34 > 0:43:37until Sean was born in 1960.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40Audrey now limited her film commitments to no more than
0:43:40 > 0:43:45one movie a year to focus on being a mother.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49And for the best part of a decade, it worked.
0:43:49 > 0:43:51These were happy years.
0:43:51 > 0:43:54I do remember them putting candles on at night,
0:43:54 > 0:43:59my father putting on some wonderful record and she wearing a long
0:43:59 > 0:44:02house dress, they used to call those in those days.
0:44:02 > 0:44:05And they would dance in the living room
0:44:05 > 0:44:07and I would be shooed off to bed.
0:44:09 > 0:44:13Why was it so important for Audrey to start a family?
0:44:14 > 0:44:19I think it was part of the healing from her father having left
0:44:19 > 0:44:22the family when she was so young.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27Around this time,
0:44:27 > 0:44:31Audrey finally felt ready to make contact with her long absent father.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36She tracked him down in Ireland.
0:44:36 > 0:44:42I think she really hoped that, like in a fairy tale, that he
0:44:42 > 0:44:45would jump from that seat in the hotel in Dublin
0:44:45 > 0:44:48and run to her with tears in his eyes.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53That that somehow would make up for what had happened.
0:44:55 > 0:44:59Instead, Audrey's father barely acknowledged her.
0:44:59 > 0:45:03She knew the minute she saw him, even before she got close to him...
0:45:03 > 0:45:06She wasn't going to have that relationship with her father again.
0:45:06 > 0:45:08I think she was devastated.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10I think she was devastated.
0:45:13 > 0:45:17Audrey's mother stayed close, coming often to Switzerland,
0:45:17 > 0:45:21although she always made Audrey feel not good enough.
0:45:21 > 0:45:25Ella said to Audrey, "Considering you have no talent,
0:45:25 > 0:45:27"it's amazing how far you got."
0:45:27 > 0:45:31I think my mother hated that and yet she was trapped with the fact
0:45:31 > 0:45:33that you have to do the right thing and this is the woman that
0:45:33 > 0:45:38carried me all the way here and I'm going to carry her all the way.
0:45:43 > 0:45:47The girl without a father who craved a better relationship with
0:45:47 > 0:45:51her mother wanted a happy marriage more than anything.
0:45:53 > 0:45:57And yet there were growing tensions with her husband.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00While Audrey was in a position to turn down work,
0:46:00 > 0:46:03Mel was struggling to find any.
0:46:04 > 0:46:09Audrey was now the star of 18 films, the winner of an Oscar,
0:46:09 > 0:46:12two Golden Globes and three BAFTAs.
0:46:12 > 0:46:17She no longer relied on Mel Ferrer for advice or support.
0:46:19 > 0:46:23In 1968, Audrey's marriage ended.
0:46:32 > 0:46:36After the breakdown of her marriage, Audrey looked for answers
0:46:36 > 0:46:40in the place where she first found true happiness.
0:46:40 > 0:46:44I think Audrey came back to Rome in the '70s because she knew
0:46:44 > 0:46:48she could be a mum here and not a film star and
0:46:48 > 0:46:52she had many friends that she could connect to.
0:46:56 > 0:47:00One set of friends invited Audrey on a Mediterranean cruise
0:47:00 > 0:47:02recorded here.
0:47:02 > 0:47:05I'm excited to be shown rarely-seen home movie
0:47:05 > 0:47:08footage restored by Luca.
0:47:10 > 0:47:14The man behind the camera is Audrey's future husband -
0:47:14 > 0:47:18young Italian doctor Andrea Dotti.
0:47:19 > 0:47:23- Here they are in Turkey... - On holiday.
0:47:23 > 0:47:26They just met. That was their first cruise.
0:47:26 > 0:47:30That's where they fell in love and there's a scene there
0:47:30 > 0:47:33where my mother on camera says "te amo" - "I love you".
0:47:36 > 0:47:41Quite romantic. And what was she blown away with?
0:47:41 > 0:47:44The one thing she would mention was the sense of humour.
0:47:44 > 0:47:50My father was very young, 28 or 29, and he was a doctor,
0:47:50 > 0:47:54but still studying and things.
0:47:55 > 0:47:58And my mother was a full-blown star already.
0:48:01 > 0:48:03They were nine years apart.
0:48:05 > 0:48:09Andrea and Audrey married and Luca was born in 1970.
0:48:11 > 0:48:15Two handsome sons and a warm southern Italian family was
0:48:15 > 0:48:18everything Audrey wanted.
0:48:18 > 0:48:23After years of looking for love, she found contentment.
0:48:23 > 0:48:28- She just loved that family life.- And she was happy being Senora Dotti.
0:48:28 > 0:48:32- That's something she called herself. - Oh, really?
0:48:32 > 0:48:37There is a very funny episode being stopped by some journalist
0:48:37 > 0:48:41asking me how is it being the son of Audrey Hepburn?
0:48:41 > 0:48:44And genuinely I answered, "There must be a mistake.
0:48:44 > 0:48:49"My mother is called Dotti, not Hepburn. It's not me."
0:48:51 > 0:48:55Over the next ten years, Audrey abandoned her career.
0:48:55 > 0:48:56She took her husband's name,
0:48:56 > 0:49:00she picked up her children every day from school.
0:49:00 > 0:49:05To the outside world, the Dottis were a happy united family.
0:49:05 > 0:49:10And then, Andrea began having affairs with women his own age.
0:49:10 > 0:49:13Audrey was devastated by the betrayal.
0:49:13 > 0:49:17She left Andrea and went back to Hollywood.
0:49:17 > 0:49:19Even after years of living away,
0:49:19 > 0:49:23it must have been good to know she was still in demand as an actress.
0:49:26 > 0:49:31Audrey now worked with a new generation of directors,
0:49:31 > 0:49:34such as Peter Bogdanovich and Steven Spielberg.
0:49:38 > 0:49:43And then, in 1980, Audrey finally met someone who shared her
0:49:43 > 0:49:47early life experiences and who would stay with her until the end.
0:49:48 > 0:49:52She was introduced to the Dutch actor Robert Wolders over
0:49:52 > 0:49:56dinner here with her friends at this house in Beverly Hills.
0:49:56 > 0:50:01Audrey came up to me and I remember so well how she struck me
0:50:01 > 0:50:05with a wistfulness and her fragility.
0:50:05 > 0:50:08Actually, one of the first discoveries that Audrey
0:50:08 > 0:50:10and I made about one another is that we each
0:50:10 > 0:50:15lived in Holland during the war - survived the war
0:50:15 > 0:50:21which created a very solid base for our relationship, you know,
0:50:21 > 0:50:26having lived through the war we have the same sentiments about...
0:50:26 > 0:50:27Certain things.
0:50:27 > 0:50:30This photograph is taken when Audrey
0:50:30 > 0:50:33and I first dared to go out together in public.
0:50:33 > 0:50:36You can tell how much she's basking in the...
0:50:36 > 0:50:40in the attention she is getting because people were
0:50:40 > 0:50:43so enthusiastic to see her.
0:50:43 > 0:50:45I look scared to death, of course!
0:50:50 > 0:50:55The year she met Robert was also a year of great personal loss for Audrey.
0:50:55 > 0:50:57Her father was now dangerously ill.
0:50:58 > 0:51:03They barely saw each other after reconnecting in the '60s.
0:51:03 > 0:51:07And yet Audrey wanted to give him one last chance.
0:51:07 > 0:51:11It was very hard because he was on his deathbed.
0:51:12 > 0:51:15Audrey went into see him, came out very disheartened
0:51:15 > 0:51:18and said that he had really nothing to say.
0:51:19 > 0:51:22And then he asked to see me.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24But then, and this was so miraculous,
0:51:24 > 0:51:27he proceeded to talk to me about Audrey,
0:51:27 > 0:51:34how proud he was of her and he knew, of course, that I was the conduit
0:51:34 > 0:51:39and that I would tell her later on, which I was more than happy to do.
0:51:40 > 0:51:45- SEAN FERRER:- She realised in that moment that he was an emotional invalid,
0:51:45 > 0:51:49that he couldn't... He just didn't have the ability
0:51:49 > 0:51:53and she accepted it, and I think that created closure.
0:51:55 > 0:52:00In 1984, Ella, Audrey's mother also died.
0:52:00 > 0:52:03It was the end of a complicated relationship.
0:52:04 > 0:52:07They had been to war together.
0:52:07 > 0:52:12And when you go through something like that with whomever - brother,
0:52:12 > 0:52:17father, friend, whether Vietnam or World War II and you've lived,
0:52:17 > 0:52:20you are for ever sharing that for the rest of your life.
0:52:23 > 0:52:28From early in her career, Audrey was a supporter of UNICEF -
0:52:28 > 0:52:30the United Nations children's fund.
0:52:31 > 0:52:36And in 1988, UNICEF asked her to be a goodwill ambassador.
0:52:37 > 0:52:41This was the big chance to unite both parts of her life -
0:52:41 > 0:52:44the Hollywood superstar and the woman who saw
0:52:44 > 0:52:47so much suffering as a child.
0:52:49 > 0:52:53She really lived a philosophy of putting others before herself,
0:52:53 > 0:52:59which made her determined to the end of her life to use her celebrity for
0:52:59 > 0:53:03the benefit of others, especially for the benefit of children in need.
0:53:03 > 0:53:06Audrey could at last express the gratitude
0:53:06 > 0:53:10she felt for the Allied food parcels which saved the lives of
0:53:10 > 0:53:13so many in Holland at the end of the war.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17The discipline Audrey applied to her own career was now
0:53:17 > 0:53:20focused on helping others.
0:53:20 > 0:53:25We did, for about five years, we did at least seven months either
0:53:25 > 0:53:29doing field trips, fact-finding trips
0:53:29 > 0:53:33plus fundraising events all over the world.
0:53:33 > 0:53:37- SEAN FERRER:- She spoke about the emotional hunger of children,
0:53:37 > 0:53:41an emotional hunger she knew also so well.
0:53:41 > 0:53:45The right to be a child, to have a real youth,
0:53:45 > 0:53:50nutrition, education, love, affection,
0:53:50 > 0:53:52time to be a kid, to play.
0:53:52 > 0:53:57No, no! Come on! Hello. Very nice to meet you.
0:53:58 > 0:54:00Have you all met my Robert?
0:54:00 > 0:54:03No. Robert. Caroline, pleased to meet you.
0:54:07 > 0:54:11Nowhere was the devastation caused to young children by war more
0:54:11 > 0:54:16apparent than when Audrey visited Somalia in 1992.
0:54:21 > 0:54:27I have something here that Audrey wrote about her experiences.
0:54:31 > 0:54:33"I walked into a nightmare.
0:54:36 > 0:54:40"So much worse than I could possibly have imagined.
0:54:40 > 0:54:43"I wasn't prepared for this.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45"And you see the villagers
0:54:45 > 0:54:50"and the earth is all rippled around these places like an ocean bed.
0:54:53 > 0:54:59"And I was told these were graves. There are graves everywhere."
0:55:02 > 0:55:05The Somalia trip was Audrey's last.
0:55:06 > 0:55:10On her return, she was rushed to hospital in Los Angeles with
0:55:10 > 0:55:12stomach pains.
0:55:12 > 0:55:16It was cancer of the appendix. The outlook was grim.
0:55:18 > 0:55:22Vanessa Redgrave happened to be in Hollywood at the time.
0:55:22 > 0:55:26She recalls one of Audrey's last public appearances.
0:55:26 > 0:55:30I remember being at one of those big hotels where all the award
0:55:30 > 0:55:33ceremonies are always held
0:55:33 > 0:55:37and saw her come to the stage
0:55:37 > 0:55:43and I knew then, and I guess everybody did, that she had cancer -
0:55:43 > 0:55:48that she couldn't live long.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51What struck me was...
0:55:51 > 0:55:54Again that...
0:55:56 > 0:55:58She was very, very humble.
0:56:03 > 0:56:06Audrey was taken home to Switzerland to die -
0:56:07 > 0:56:11to the house she found when she was still married to Mel Ferrer.
0:56:11 > 0:56:16This was also where Sean grew up, full of childhood memories.
0:56:18 > 0:56:21Colours exactly the same as they were then.
0:56:21 > 0:56:24She spent two thirds of her life in Switzerland.
0:56:24 > 0:56:27She lived half of her entire life in this home.
0:56:27 > 0:56:31And so it really was home and it's understandable that she would
0:56:31 > 0:56:34have wanted to come home at the end.
0:56:34 > 0:56:35Yeah.
0:56:35 > 0:56:40This is one of the last pictures she and I took together.
0:56:40 > 0:56:43We were standing right here where you and I are standing
0:56:43 > 0:56:48and this garden ended up being just what she had hoped for -
0:56:48 > 0:56:51a place where she would take careful walks during the day, which is
0:56:51 > 0:56:54when we took this photograph.
0:56:56 > 0:56:58When it was only a few days before Christmas
0:56:58 > 0:57:03and she couldn't go out and shop and get something and so she went in
0:57:03 > 0:57:08her closet and found something that was hers to give to each one of us.
0:57:08 > 0:57:14She said, it has been the best Christmas of my life.
0:57:14 > 0:57:16And that made it so touching.
0:57:16 > 0:57:18So magical.
0:57:29 > 0:57:34Audrey Hepburn died on 20th January 1993.
0:57:36 > 0:57:41At her funeral here in Switzerland, 25,000 people lined the streets.
0:57:43 > 0:57:48Behind the glittering legend was a woman who overcame much pain
0:57:48 > 0:57:54and suffering to find what she was looking for more than anything else.
0:57:54 > 0:57:56She came home.
0:57:56 > 0:58:00I think she spent a large portion of her life thinking that she
0:58:00 > 0:58:02wasn't worthy of the affection and the love
0:58:02 > 0:58:07and maybe by feeling that, we all gathered around her at this time,
0:58:07 > 0:58:10she finally believed us.
0:58:12 > 0:58:15It was a very special thing for her to come back here.
0:58:16 > 0:58:20Although Audrey was admired all over the world,
0:58:20 > 0:58:23I now realised the love of her family mattered the most.
0:58:25 > 0:58:30As a mother and an icon, she will never be forgotten.