Audrey Hepburn

Answer: False

Her father was English, and her mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra, was Dutch, making her lineage a blend of English, Dutch, and Austrian/German heritage through her paternal grandparents.

Answer: True

Hepburn said she wept when she saw Dutch-Jewish children placed in Nazi cattle trains. Her half-brother was sent to a Nazi labor camp.

Answer:  False

Hepburn won an Oscar for her first starring role in the 1953 film, Roman Holiday. Directed by William Wyler, Audrey plays a runaway princess incognito. Her co-star, Gregory Peck, is a down-on-his-luck reporter who pretends he doesn’t know who she really is, hoping for a big payday with the world aghast with “Where is the Princess.”

The script was written by Dalton Trumbo and John Dighton, though with Trumbo on the Hollywood blacklist, he did not receive a credit, and Ian McLellan Hunter fron

ted for him. Trumbo's name was reinstated when the film was released on DVD in 2003,

Answer:  False

The novella was by Truman Capote, who expressed disappointment with Hepburn cast as Holly Golightly - a naïve, excentric – out to land a millionaire. He had envisioned Tuesday Weld or Marilyn Monroe, actors less glamorous.

Answer:  False

Audrey Hepburn is buried in the cemetery in Tolochenaz, Switzerland, a village near Morges where she lived for the last 30 years of her life.

Her grave is marked by a simple, well-kept stone cross and is a modest resting place surrounded by flowers, reflecting her wish for simplicity.