18 September, 2016

Audrey Hepburn and the Nazis: How wartime tyranny turned a Hollywood icon into a humanitarian - Mirror Online

Audrey Hepburn and the Nazis: How wartime tyranny turned a Hollywood icon into a humanitarian - Mirror Online:

Her mum sent her to ballet classes in their home town Arnhem and the pupils began giving ­secret dance shows to raise money for the resistance.
Performances were staged in ­houses behind closed curtains while Nazi patrols roamed outside. To avoid ­being discovered, ­audiences never clapped.
Later the movie icon, who enthralled millions, said: “The best audience I ever had made not a single sound at the end of my performance.”


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