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After the war, Hepburn and her mother moved to London, England where she studied ballet, worked as a model, and in 1951 began acting in films, mostly in minor or supporting roles as Audrey Hepburn; her first major performance was in the 1951 film The Secret People, in which she played a ballet dancer. Audrey had trained in ballet since childhood and won critical acclaim for her talent, which she showcased in the film. However, her teachers had deemed her "too tall" to be a professional ballet dancer, since at 5'7" she was talle ...

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For the 1930/31 production year the award was again subdivided, and this one was once again Best Writing, Adaptation. 1930/1931 Cimarron - Howard Estabrook from the novel by Edna Ferber The Criminal Code - Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr. from a play by Martin Flavin Holiday - Horace Jackson from the play by Philip Barry Little Caesar - Francis Edward Faragoli, Robert N. Lee, Robert Lord, Darryl F. Zanuck from the novel by William R. Burnett Skippy - Jo ...

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For 1957 the awards were combined into a single award. 1957 Orry-Kelly - Les Girls Charles LeMaire - An Affair to Remember Edith Head, Hubert de Givenchy - Funny Face Jean Louis, - Pal Joey Walter Plunkett - Raintree County 1958 Cecil Beaton - Gigi Jean Louis - Bell, Book and Candle Ralph Jester, Edith Head, John Jensen - The Buccaneer) Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills - A Certain Smile

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Best Production 1927-28 Wings - Paramount Famous Lasky - Lucien Hubbard The Racket - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes Seventh Heaven - Fox - William Fox Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production also known as "Best Artistic Quality of Production" was only presented in the first year. 1927-28 Sunrise - Fox - William Fox Chang - Paramount - Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack The Crowd - ...

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For 1957 films this award became a single award. 1957 Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley - Sayonara Hal Pereira, George W. Davis, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Funny Face William A. Horning, Gene Allen, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle - Les Girls Walter Holscher, William Kiernan, Louis Diage - Pal Joey William A. Horning, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - Raintree County 1958 William A. Horning, Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F. Keogh G ...

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For 1956 the Category was renamed Screenplay--Adapted: 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days - John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, James Poe from the novel by Jules Verne Baby Doll - Tennessee Williams from his one act plays Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton and The Unsatisfactory Supper Friendly Persuasion - Michael Wilson from the novel by Jessamyn West Note: Originally was ineligible due to Academy bylaws Giant - Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber ...

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Hepburn attended private schools in England and the Netherlands. After the 1935 divorce of her parents, she was living with her mother at Arnhem, Netherlands when the German invasion and occupation of World War II occurred. At that time she adopted the pseudonym Edda Van Heemstra, modifying her mother's documents to do so, because an "English-sounding" name was considered dangerous. This was never her legal name.[1] After the landing of the Allied Forces on D-Day, things grew worse under the German occupiers. During the Dutch f ...

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In addition to the above, Hepburn hosted the 1993 television series, Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn for PBS, a nine-episode documentary series which premiered on the day of her death. She also appeared in an April 1952 episode of CBS Television Workshop entitled "Rainy Day at Paradise Junction" which predates her "official" American debut in Roman Holiday. According to some biographies, Hepburn claimed to have made "several" American and British TV appearances before Roman Holiday, and a poster for a 195 ...

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In the early 1950s she was engaged to a wealthy man named James Hanson. She called it "love at first sight." However, after having the wedding dress fitted and the wedding date set, she decided that since they rarely saw each other (he spent most of his time in England), the marriage would not work. She had the wedding dress given to a poor Italian couple who still have it today. However, Hepburn did marry, twice: to the American actor Mel Ferrer and to an Italian doctor, Andrea Dotti, and had a so ...

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From 1967 onward, after fifteen highly successful years in film, Hepburn acted only occasionally. She attempted a comeback co-starring with Sean Connery in the period piece Robin and Marian in 1976, which was moderately successful, but not up to the usual standards of a Hepburn hit film. Surprisingly, she turned down the seemingly made-to-order role of a former ballet dancer in The Turning Point. Shirley MacLaine got the part, and the successful film invigorated her career. Hepburn made another comeback try in 1979, starring in Sidney Sheldo ...

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She won the 1953 Academy Award for Best Actress for Roman Holiday. She was nominated for Best Actress four more times; for Sabrina (1954 awards), The Nun's Story (1959 awards), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961 awards), and Wait Until Dark (1967 awards). There was Oscar controversy in 1964 when Audrey was not even nominated for her "loverly" performance as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, possibly her best and most beloved performance. This may be due to the fact that her ...

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From 1974 the Category was renamed Screenplay Adapted From Other Material: 1974 The Godfather, Part II - Francis Coppola, Mario Puzo from the novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Lionel Chetwynd, Mordecai Richler from the book by Mordecai Richler Lenny - Julian Barry from his play Murder on the Orient Express - Paul Dehn from the novel by Agatha Christie Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks from the novel Frankenstei ...

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The average length of the month assumed by the calendar is correct within a fraction of a second (although individual months may be a few hours longer or shorter than average). There will thus be no significant errors from this source for a very long time. However, the assumption that 19 tropical years exactly equal 235 months is wrong, so the average length of a 19 year cycle is too long (compared with 19 tropical years) by about 0.088 days or just over 2 hours. Thus on average the calendar gets further out of step with the tropical year by ...

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