Audrey Hepburn - Ultimate Collection [DVD]

A collection of 'golden oldies' starring Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn. Includes the films: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, FUNNY FACE, PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES, MY FAIR LADY, ROMAN HOLIDAY, and SABRINA.

Breakfast At Tiffany's - The free-spirited gamine darts about New York, feted by wealthy men drawn to her megawatt charm and elegance, hoping that the party will never end. After shopping in front of Tiffany's window, she meets aspiring writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard), and they begin a platonic friendship. Sponsored by an older woman (Patricia Neal) whose interest in the young man is more than literary. But she seems to need little protection from such friends as incarcerated mob boss Sally Tomato (Alan Reed), who pays her to carry messages to Sing Sing. With her infectious joi de vivre, she helps Paul break through a paralysing case of writer's block. But when the genial Doc Golightly (Buddy Ebsen) appears in New York in search of Holly, the sources of her gossamer lifestyle suddenly become clearer.

Funny Face - 'Think pink!' commands Miss Prescott (Kay Thompson), head of Quality Woman fashion magazine, and American women obey--all except Jo (Audrey Hepburn), an intellectual young woman who tries to prevent Miss Prescott from staging a photo shoot in her bookshop. Photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) sees something interesting in Jo's "funny face," and soon he's lured her to Paris to model during the day and discuss philosophy in smoky cafes at night. Modelling Givenchy clothes, Hepburn steals the colour in every scene, and her funny face enchants all, including Dick and, unexpectedly, the dark and handsome philosophy master whose theories Jo adores. The musical numbers are primarily duets--Jo and Dick glide together in each other's arms, Jo and Miss Prescott find unexpected solidarity in womanhood, and Dick and Miss Prescott cavort in the philosopher's salon--but the most engaging scene is when the three come to Paris, plead exhaustion to one another, then secretly race around the city, singing and dancing and revelling in being tourists.

Paris When It Sizzles –  The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.

My Fair Lady - Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really star wattage that keeps My Fair Lady exciting--that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night".

Roman Holiday - A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. 

Sabrina - Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) is the daughter of a Long Island chauffeur, almost a member of the extended family of her father's employer. Linus and David Larrabee are the sons in the wealthy family, and Sabrina has harbored a crush on David (William Holden), the younger and more freewheeling of the sons. When Sabrina goes to Paris for two years, she leaves as a girl and returns as a young woman, consequently receiving the attention she desires from David but also the attention of Linus (Humphrey Bogart), the more serious and hard-working brother. 

• Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Robert Flemyng, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, Humphrey Bogart
• Directors: William Wyler, Billy Wilder, George Cukor, Stanley Holloway, Blake Edwards
• Format: Box set, PAL
• Language English
• Region: Region 2
• Number of discs: 7
• Classification: PG
• Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
• Run Time: 701 minutes

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