Audrey Hepburn’s life was a series of ups and downs. She went from Broadway shows featuring her amazing ballet skills, to movie sets in hollywood, that were followed by many movie premieres and award shows. She was born on May 4, 1929, and died on January 20, 1993. (audrey1). At age 5, Audrey was sent to boarding school in england, and about year later, at age 6, her dad left her and her family. (audrey1). A time audrey described as “one of the worst moments in her life.” (audrey1). In 1941 she began her first major ballet training at the Arnhem School of Music, 3 years later she began teaching ballet to young people in her school. (audrey1). When WWII began, Audrey and her family moved to Arnhem, in hopes of being safe from the Germans. (elegant) There she started to get back into training in ballet, and studying the standard school curriculum.(elegant) When Nazis invaded in 1940, she changed her name to ‘edda’ because having a ‘british sounding name’ was very dangerous to have at the time (elegant). Around 4 years later people considered her as a proficient ballerina.(elegant) Audrey began to dance secretly for certain groups of people to collect money for the dutch resistance (elegant). Towards the end of the war, Audrey had lived the past couple of years lacking proper nutrition, which then stopped her from being …show more content…
He Feels she has potential to be a big time model, so he takes her to france and photographs her against iconic parisian backgrounds, and many tourist attractions (imdb). During time in france the two fall for each other in the city of love (imdb). Critics say “... Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn in a delightful balmy romance.” many also say it's “... a sporadically engaging, yet hopelessly erratic old school
Queen Latifah is a Grammy Award- winning rapper, record producer and actress. She was born on March 18, 1970, in Newark, New Jersey. Her real name is Dana Elaine Owens, she got her name “latifah” from her cousin which is a Muslim but Latifah means delicate and sensitive. Latifah start singing in the choir of Shiloh Baptist Church in Bloomfield, New Jersey, her first performance was at St. Anne’s parochial school she had sung a song name Home.
Betty Marie saw herself as just a “typical normal Indian girl”. Born in 1925, she grew up at an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. She was a shy introvert, but something helped her get out of her shell. When she was four, she started to take Ballet lessons from a local instructor. She became a local hit, and preformed at various events, such as fairs and rodeos. Later, she realized that despite her talent, she could still improve.
Ruth Denis was born on the 20th of January, 1879 on a family farm located in Newark, New Jersey. Ruth lived with both her two parents, Ruth’s father was a persistently unemployed machinist. Ruth St Denis’s mother (Ruth Emma Denis) on the other hand was a physician, renowned for being Ruth’s motivation. She taught Ruth the basic foundations of ballroom and skirt dancing and at the age of 10, Ruth performed her first solo performance produced by her mother. Denis then began truly committed herself to dance, including training of Delsarte technique, ballet lessons with the Italian ballerina Maria Bonfante, social dance forms and skirt dancing.
Debbie Allen was born to Vivian Ayers and Arthur Allen on January 16, 1950. At age three she started dancing and at age four she knew she wanted to be a professional dancer. Her parents divorced in 1957, and her mother was Debbie and her siblings were encouraged to be creative and independent. In 1960, Vivian Ayers took her children to Mexico. When they came back to Texas, Debbie auditioned for the Houston Ballet School but was denied because the color of her skin. A Russian teacher at the school saw Debbie perform and secretly enrolled her. When she was sixteen, she auditioned for the North Carolina School of the Arts but was rejected because her body was “unsuited” for ballet. While she was in high school she put her studies first and went
Betty Marie Tallcheif was born in 1925. As a child,she would always listen to her grandmother tales about being a Osage and her heritage.She suddenly found herself as a regular Indian girl shy, calm,introverted, and obiendent. Betty Marie started ballet lessons at the age of four years old. She suddenly found out that ballet was her thing.
Audrey’s acting career was flourishing. She earned a Theatre World Award for her debut of “Gigi” , on Broadway in New York. Not long after her performance, Paramount pictures signed her onto a seven-picture contract. Audrey is one of three women who won an Academy award and Tony award for best actress. In 1955 she received the Golden Globe for World Film Favorite, but also was a major fashion influence. After her acting career slowed down a bit Hepburn joined the UNICEF. Audrey was involved with many different charities, and some believe it was because of what she suffered through when she was younger. Her first field mission for UNICEF was to Ethiopia in 1988. Only a few years later she was diagnosed with abdominal cancer. Being told the cancer was inoperable, Audrey later died in 1993.
Mary-Kate Olsen was born on June 13, 1986, in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California. She has a twin sister Ashley Olsen. They both started off their famous acting career at a very young age. They were nine months old when they started their acting debut on the ABC family sitcom, Full house. They shared the role as Michelle Tanner. Child labor was a big deal so them being twins led the sitcom to air longer because the girls could share the amount of hours and work longer. This show went on for eight years and during this time, their career took off. However, during the first two years the show was being aired, it did not even make the top thirty list of most watched television shows. Fortunately, the following year, it made the top fourteen. In the 1991-1992 the season peaked at number seven. At the age of five, a producer, Robert Thorne, realized how little the girls were being paid and asked the parents if he could represent them. The girls were getting paid minimum wage which amounted to be $4,000 per episode. After Robert started to represent them
Julie Andrews was born Julia Elizabeth Wells on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. She is a born natural at performing, and she loves the stage. She made her first stage appearance at the very young age of two, as a fairy. Her aunt, Joan worked for dancing school where her mother, Barbara provided piano accompaniment for classes and performances, and her father, Ted made the stage sets. It was all too natural for her to come to be on the stage. Due to her mother’s stage ambitions for her, she was home taught and as her father was a teacher, it became convenient.
Louise Brooks grew more and more popular with every dance performance until she was fired for endangering the dance company she worked for co-founder’s job. This led her to her most prominent
Her teacher saw Copeland’s ability and encouraged her to take ballet classes. She took classes at a local dance club Copeland and was shortly moved to pointe. Copeland was thriving at dance, but her family life was difficult. She moved in with her dance teacher where she was able to train and perform. Copeland was offered many opportunities to perform in “The Chocolate Nutcracker,” and charity events.
I have always been in favour of strong, independent, uncompromising women. Women who go through life with a head held high, women who embrace their positive and negative sides, women who do not measure themselves against men, but are instead a unit of measure in themselves. Women who walk proud through life, face difficulties with courage and determination, don't walk away or give up even when there knees are trembling with fear.
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Anna Pavlova, a prima ballerina, was born in Russia. At a very young age she developed an interest in dancing. As a result, her mother took her to see "The Sleeping Beauty”. At the age of nine she auditioned at the Imperial Ballet School. However, she was not granted admission because she was too small and sickly looking. At the age of ten Anna was finally accepted. Her first appearance on stage was in Marius Petipa’s Un conte de fees (A Fairy Tale). Pavlova had difficulties in training because classical ballet was not her specialty. To make matters worse, she had arched feet, thin ankles, and long limbs. To compensate, she practiced extremely hard and took lessons from noted teachers of the day. Upon graduation, she performed at the Mariinsky
Audrey Hepburn has once said in her lifetime,“as you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” Seeing those words cover my webpage, I perceived that though Audrey Hepburn and I might not have much in common, we both hold a similarity. That similarity is finding great importance in helping others, and that’s where my passion comes about.
Audrey Hepburn had a arduous childhood, many events happening but make her a perseverant person. First and foremost, “A native of Brussels, Hepburn spent part of her youth in England at a boarding school there. During much of World War II, she studied at the Arnhem Conservatory in The Netherlands.” Education was the simplest thing in her life at the time as she was going through the war and family change, but manages to keep an education unlike maybe some others. Furthermore, Audrey Hepburn also had been alive during the time of World War II and her childhood had been affected greatly because of such dramatic changes. “After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Hepburn used the name Edda van Heemstra, because an ‘English-sounding’ name was considered dangerous during the German occupation.” Also, “Her family was profoundly affected by the occupation, with Hepburn later stating that ‘had we known that we were going to be occupied for five years, we