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CHEVALIER

WAS THE MOST ABSOLUTE

JOY SAYS AUDREY HEPBURN

I'

By

-

RALPH COOPER

"My husband is a man-not a Svengali!" Audrey Hepburn rose to her feel,

and with arms outstretched she faced me, eyes blazing.

She was alarmed about the unchecked stories which have been giving her and her husband, American actor Mei Ferrer, a reputation for being difficult and unco operative,

Mel, in particular, has been made out to be the big bad wolf dominating Audrey's career-to is detriment.

"For D start,"

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her on really started It was to- 1 asked Autrey about tho

the

big other men in her lkie-the ones she is acting with Just now. her tospired casting has given Maurice Chevalier for a father, a private detective whose busi-

shoots up every Lanc Amerlenn big business tycoon. Gary Cooper, arrives in Pario.

When I met Audrey

post dressing

tit the Paris words the end of 'my studios where she is making year" "the yoor she wen

with Oscar for "Roman Holiday," the "Love in the Afternoon" Gary Cooper,

Maurice year of "Gigi" and "Ondine " and Chevalier, i usked her how fur

wonder- this "domination!

"These awards are Woe true

ful, but you have to be physical- saud Audrey, jly very strung to keep up with with "we love each other-very much, the publicity which goes

And them on top of all simple as that

usual when you are h Jove it isternands on your time natural to share things,

"Mel and 1 had to appear at THEY WERE WRONG! En big charity ATRIC In New York. We had to ride round When we got married people the na en black horse- said Met would ruin me, and why at exhaustion polat My they also said, though not so doctor had told me to give up often, that P'd run Mel. Well, everything. We arrived, after "When I told him how won-

prove two strenuous performances

of dertul it was for រាង to ba that one wrong for u startand our play, round about midnight|neting with him-do you know I've never been

huppier-orta be greeted by n tremencious what that man said to healthier-in my life."

asked Audrey.

we've hnd thine now to

battery of cameras.

To work with Chevalier, she sald, was an absolute joy. "His Haning is so perfect, Comedy scenes go with a rhythm' with him--and that is a talent that not all great actors and actresIES With him it is insting-

possess. tive.

NO TRICKS

107"

Audrey looked 11. Gone, with "They went on and m, anel Jay the hair style that swept the the end I said 'Could that be world, are the urchin look and enough, I must sif de wn before Chevalier, Thes international the strain that marked

her I get on that horse. And that artist, once highest paid in the during the year she first hit the was the first Loc tlant Mel world, 68 recently, said to hendlines. Bock, with a feminino nudd: 'Stop! That's enough! He star of two pictures: hair-do and a new air of assur-took me many, put me in a room, ance, is the cuchunting

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young locked the dour

gle of "Roman Holiday" | guard! outside. little more mature perhaps, but she's the Audrey the world first fell in love with.

stood

NATURAL REACTION

Which was why she shook me minution, he's done it plenty of "And," she added with deser.

when I asked her

why she'd ber changed replied: "A change."

tho

"Well.

don't

have

whal about ine? You know how much this means to me, For sixty years 1 worked-for Únis” big break. This

hair style. Shemnes niñce. Surely it's a natural actor-not

woman neexts. IL

This is my

pari,

th69

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could he for me, the If I could get two parts like this a year. as

as Chevaller-naybe me wouldn't have to work so hard

the stage natural that Uring.

reaction for him to sicer

crowds und look It was the "woman" Through the

me?

the IL's that camo oddly from this elfin after

reaction of a man, and my hus band is a

and 11t Svengali:

stip of a girl,

"It is natural that Mel and 1 should discuss things,' Audrey "and that includes went on.

But Met bas been. Careers

fair. If scrupulously rends him a script and suggests he I might be interested, too, has always written buck. 'Please ask Audrey about it through her

#gen!.'

HOW IT STARTED

anyone

Bul

on

"I12 this

And

1

Aud

picture, Maurice, "I work hard, I want so much to be good in 11-with

of 11:0 uld Chevalier tricks."

nnne

HIS TRIBUTE

"If we led terrible lives, It Moi bont mc. or if we

came home drunk every night I could understand some of the stories that get around about us. we don't. We live

4 normal

If he had said aelors' trieks' accepted it would have been remarkable," life, according to the

Perhaps that's what divommented Audrey, "but to say codes.

he would throw nway his own apprints some people.'

tricks, the ones he fas been NIGHTLY CALL

Mel wasn't with Parts. He's making

"

| using. depending on all his

lfre

Ju Audrey

a m

"He didn't read the script of

read this one because I didn't

10 Chevalleria hibute to Audrey it myself unit got to Paris to make the film. And 1'ê ngreed the South of France. "It's our hongs on her dressing table. A telegrami 10 do it for Billy Wilder before longest separation," said Audrey, first day of shooting

night.in which he says, quite simply: Mel. when

"but be rings me every were making 'Sobrina Fair"." He is the most wonderful, kind "How proud I would

husband, "1 think I and coraldomte

and full of love I would be, Audrey poused,

really had a doughter like you." know when this talk of domina- I'm very, very happy."

I'd ever met

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