5 movies to remember Audrey Hepburn

On January 20, 1993, one of the film muses of the 1950s, Audrey Hepburn, died at the age of 63 due to a peritoneal pseudomyxoma at her home in Switzerland. That day he took a little of the history of cinema, of one of the highest valued actresses and one of the muses of the seventh art.In his legacy, the American Film Institude named the actress as one of the three most influential of all times, only compared to other muses such as Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gadner or Greta Garbo. There were many films in which she participated, but it was in the 50s and 60s when the actress who lived one of the golden ages of cinema most shined from Hollywood and was a recognized activist for UNICEF. We remember five of her best films on the anniversary of her birth, May 4, 1929. Vacation in Rome Although it was not her first film, and she already had almost a dozen entries, ‘Vacation in Rome ‘marked the definitive take-off for one of Hollywood’s most beloved faces. Under the orders of another directorial colossus like Billy Wilder, and seconded by the magnificent Gregory Peck, the romantic comedy won three Oscars, one d and them for Audrey Hepburn as Best Leading Actress One of the great films of the 50s Sabrina A year later, in 1954, the actress was again nominated for an Oscar for ‘Sabrina’, another of the great comedies of all time Again with Billy Wilder in the direction, this time the heartthrob was Humphrey Bogart, in a comedy that has had several sequels years later.Breakfast with Diamonds Although if there is a film that defines the filmography of Audrey Hepburn, that is undoubtedly ‘Breakfast with diamonds. ‘In 1961 the Belgian actress was placed under the command of director Blake Edwards to develop one of the most remembered films in Hollywood. The film was one of the great bets of comedy during the 60s Charada, but the muse of cinema was not only the protagonist of romantic comedies. With Stanley Donen’s ‘Charada’, Audrey Hepburn showed that she was an actress with great power in front of the camera despite having by her side a whole sex symbol of the time, the actor Cary Grant. camera outside of more bearable movies and comedies, he proved it with his eternal performance in ‘Alone in the dark’ directed by Terence Young in 1967, a drama that earned him a new nomination for the Oscars of that year.