I used to go out with a girl who was infatuated with Audrey Hepburn. She used to pin her hair up like the Belgian-born actress, wear black turtleneck pullovers and diet like crazy to achieve a waif-like figure.
I believe she wanted to be Audrey Hepburn but she wasn't the only one as the late actress touched many young girls' lives.
Hepburn's life was truly a fairytale. Originally a ballerina, she went to the US in the early 1950s in an era dominated by such shapely pin-ups as Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell and Jayne Mansfield.
In her first Hollywood film, she ensured her legendary status by winning an Academy Award for best actress at the age of 23, for her role as Princess Anne in Roman Holiday opposite Gregory Peck.
Further roles in such films as Sabrina, Funny Face, The Nun's Story, My Fair Lady and the classic Breakfast at Tiffany's increased her celebrity. She would eventually garner four Oscar nominations in all.
After 1967, she retreated from public life, preferring to be with her family. When she did make public appearances it was usually to use her celebrity status to campaign for UNICEF. She would only make four more films before dying in 1993, aged 63.
In Two For The Road (Pearl, 9.30pm), Hepburn and Albert Finney play a married couple in the throes of a 12-year marriage. The film follows the bickering couple as they fall in and out of love, taking the same trip from London to the French Riviera on three occasions.
