Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: the Oscar for Best Actress 1954.
After a difficult childhood marked by the Second World War, Audrey Hepburn began working as a model in England. Attracted by a career as a dancer, however, she headed for film sets. Her first major role was – ironically – that of a ballerina, in The Secret People, released in 1952.
Meanwhile, on the set of We will go to Monte-Carlo, Audrey Hepburn is spotted by Colette and shines on the boards of Broadway in the title role of gigi. The triumph of the play then opened the doors of Hollywood to him.
seduced by sound “charm”her “innocence” and his “talent”, as he will declare later (see the screen-test below), director William Wyler offers him his first major role in the cinema, in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday. Audrey Hepburn thus lends her features to Ann, an Italian princess enjoying a moment of escape in the Roman capital, in the company of a journalist camped by Gregory Peck.
Captivated by the performance of his beginner partner, with whom he shares an obvious complicity, the latter also demands that his name appear alongside his on the poster of the film.
Released in 1953, roman holidays definitively launched the career of Audrey Hepburn, who, at the age of 24, found herself crowned Best Actress at the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
Check out Audrey Hepburn’s screen test:
roman holidays by William Wyler with Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert…
Tonight on Arte at 8:50 p.m.