"With 68 images including commentary by Jeffrey Banks"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-420), filmography (pages 378-379) and index.

Act one: Coda/overture. A closet, 1993 ; Beginning, 1929-1948 ; War and a life of dance, 1940-1947 ; London, 1948 ; Chorus girl, 1948-1949 ; A star is (not quite yet) born, 1950-1951 ; A single line and Alec Guinness, 1951-1952 ; Discovery by Collette, 1951-1952 -- Act two: What price Hollywood. Roman Holiday, 1951-1953 ; Right girl, right place, right time--the 1950s ; A first love, 1952-1952 ; Sabrina, Bogie, and William Holden, 1953-1954 ; Soul mates, 1953-1993 ; Meeting Mel, 1953-1968 ; Exhibits A-B-C, 1954-1957 ; Bonjour, Paris! 1956-1957 ; Love In The Afternoon, 1957 ; Feature film mistake #1--Green Mansions, 1958-1959 ; The Nun's Story, 1959 ; Feature film mistake #2--The Unforgiven, 1960 ; Motherhood, 1960 ; When Audrey met Holly, 1961 ; From Holly to Karen, 1961 ; Paris when it fizzles, 1962-1964 ; Charade, 1962-1964 ; Home, 1963-1993 ; My Fair Lady, 1963-1964 ; What could go wrong? 1960s ; For the love of animals, 1957-1993 ; A beautiful uncertainty -- Act three: Icon. The nature of the appeal, 1953-1993 ; Fashionista, 1953-1993 ; Once more with feeling, 1966 ; Two For The Road, 1967 ; Alone in the dark, 1967-1968 ; A different Roman holiday, 1969-1970 ; Nine years of silence, 1967-1976 ; As if we never said good bye, 1976 ; What could go wrong, part 2--1970s ; Feature film mistake #3--Bloodline, 1978-1979 ; They All Laughed, 1980 ; Might-have-beens, 1950s through 1980s ; Accept no substitutes, 1987-2002 ; With and without--life with father (and mother), 1929-1984 ; Love Among Thieves, 1987 -- Act four: What matters most. UNICEF, 1988-1993 ; Robbie, 1979-1993 ; Always, 1989 ; A reckoning with Anne Frank, 1990-1991 ; For the love of gardens, 1990-1993 ; Tributes, 1990-1993 ; Solo voce, 1992 ; Somalia, 1992 ; Priorities, 1993 -- Act five: The last golden age star. Announcing the news, 1993 ; Bequests, 1993-2000 ; Protecting the legacy, 1993-2004 ; Generations of activism, 1970-2004 ; Auctioning history, 2017-2018 ; Everything old is new again, 1993-2021 ; The last golden age star ; And in the end, 1929-1993 -- Time tested beauty tips -- Appendix A: Selected honors -- Appendix B: Career scorecard -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

"Academy Award-winning actress, fashion icon, ethereal beauty, wife, mother, World War II resistance activist, UNICEF champion-- Audrey Hepburn transcended her era and became a global idol whose appeal continues to soar in the twenty-first century. Packed with beautiful photographs of the star at her most captivating and supplemented with incisive fashion commentary from award-winning designer Jeffrey Banks, Audrey Hepburn: A Beautiful Uncertainty is a one-of-a-kind exploration of Audrey's glamorous image and remarkable life. Always leading with her heart, Hepburn is shown here fully captured in all her complexity: an often self-doubting but brilliant and genuinely kind woman whose style and activism changed the world. Slipping behind the scenes of Hollywood's Golden Age, author Tom Santopietro details Audrey's personal and professional life, from her legendary dance partnership with Fred Astaire on the classic Funny Face to her love affairs with Albert Finney and William Holden. Throughout, her life and career are juxtaposed with the lasting legacy of her iconic image and unerring fashion sensibility, as she played muse to the brilliant designer Hubert de Givenchy and inspired women from Jacqueline Onassis to Carly Simon"-- Provided by publisher.