Audrey Hepburn Fun Facts:
Director Frank Capra had originally optioned Roman Holiday (1953) in 1949, with aspirations of casting Elizabeth Taylor and Cary Grant in a reworking of his 1934 Academy Award-winning classic, It Happened One Night, but plans fell through due to
financial problems.
Certain elements in Truman Capote’s novel, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, such as Holly’s bisexuality, were excised for the screen version.
Audrey Hepburn’s iconic Givenchy-designed black dress worn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) sold for an astronomical $807,000 at a December 4, 2006 Christie’s Auction, which made it one of the most expensive pieces of movie memorabilia ever sold, second only to the Gone with the Wind (1939) Academy Award for Best Picture.
According to Audrey Hepburn, roughly 90% of her singing in My Fair Lady (1964) was dubbed by singer Marni Nixon.
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