Our Fair Lady: The Films of AUDREY HEPBURN
July 8 - September 7

The coltish movements, the big eyes, the dazzling smile, the throaty voice with its exuberant sing-song cadence - there has never been anyone like her. Alternately embodying waifish naiveté and height-of-fashion international sophistication, she incarnated roles in ways that made any other casting unimaginable. The definition of charm and elegance, her signature films - from SABRINA to BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S to MY FAIR LADY - have become part of the cultural vernacular, inspiring pop songs, fashion trends and swoons around the world.


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CHARADE

A critical and box office smash for Donen, mixing romantic comedy with a thriller. Back in Paris from a skiing holiday, Audrey Hepburn finds herself newly widowed, apartment-less and the target of thieves, including a hookhanded George Kennedy and a Southern–accented James Coburn - and then, everyone, including solicitously helpful stranger Cary Grant, starts switching identities! In their only pairing, Grant and Hepburn redefine charm and sophistication amid witty remarks, frantic chases and the most romantic boat ride ever.

DIR/PROD Stanley Donen; SCR Peter Stone. US, 1963, color, 113 min. NOT RATED

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Friday, August 11, 4:30
Saturday, August 12, 7:15
Sunday, August 13, 3:00

 

TWO FOR THE ROAD

A road movie par excellence, criss-crossing the 10-year marriage of Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney - via flashback and flashforward - through good times and bad, during the couple's five road trips in the South of France. An editing marvel - remarkably fluent for its daring construction - that rhymes its time-traveling cuts to visual, verbal and emotional themes shared in the life of the couple. Donen's most passionate film, with entrancing turns by the stars and great comic support from William Daniels, Eleanor Bron and a zesty Jacqueline Bisset.

DIR/PROD Stanley Donen; SCR Frederic Raphael. UK, 1967, color, 111 min. NOT RATED

Tickets reserved and purchased online must be retrieved in person at the AFI Silver box office. The same credit card used online must be presented to the cashier to redeem your tickets.

Friday, August 25, 7:00
Saturday, August 26, 7:10, 9:30
Sunday, August 27, 2:45
Tuesday, August 29, 7:00
Wednesday, August 30, 7:00

 

FUNNY FACE

Greenwich Village bookworm Audrey Hepburn is whisked off to Paris and turned into a top model by fashion magazine editor Kay Thompson and photographer Fred Astaire. Endlessly inventive musical numbers include Thompson's brassy credo Think Pink, Astaire's title song, sung to his model's developing image in his darkroom, and Hepburn's touching How Long Has This Been Going On? The famous photoshoot montage, with a Givenchy-adorned Hepburn posing against Paris landmarks, dances with color and wit.

DIR Stanley Donen; SCR Leonard Gershe; PROD Roger Edens. US, 1957, color, 103 min. NOT RATED

Tickets reserved and purchased online must be retrieved in person at the AFI Silver box office. The same credit card used online must be presented to the cashier to redeem your tickets.

Friday, August 4, 7:00
Saturday, August 5, 5:00
Sunday, August 6, 2:30
Monday, August 7, 4:30
Tuesday, August 8, 4:30
Wednesday, August 9, 4:30
Thursday, August 10, 4:30

 

#4 on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Passions
ROMAN HOLIDAY

In her breakout role, Hepburn plays a Central European princess who skips out on her official schedule to enjoy Rome incognito, with undercover reporter Gregory Peck and photographer Eddie Albert. Ten Oscar nominations, including five-time nominee Hepburn's lone win for Best Actress, and the legendary Edith Head's win for Best Costume Design.

DIR/PROD William Wyler; SCR John Dighton and Dalton Trumbo. US, 1953, b&w, 118 min. NOT RATED

Tickets reserved and purchased online must be retrieved in person at the AFI Silver box office. The same credit card used online must be presented to the cashier to redeem your tickets.

Friday, July 7, 4:20
Sunday, July 9, 2:30
Wednesday, July 12, 4:20

 

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

Hepburn is at her best and most iconic as Holly Golightly, a madcap gal-about-town living on dreams as she serial-dates the wealthiest men in New York City. Neighbor George Peppard, a kept man by a married Patricia Neal, is an aspiring writer who struggles with writer's block and longs for Holly.

DIR Blake Edwards; SCR George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote; PROD Martin Jurow and Richard Shepherd. US, 1961, color, 115 min. NOT RATED

Tickets reserved and purchased online must be retrieved in person at the AFI Silver box office. The same credit card used online must be presented to the cashier to redeem your tickets.

Friday, July 21, 7:10
Saturday, July 22, 6:00
Sunday, July 23, 6:15
Thursday, July 27, 7:00

 

SABRINA

Hepburn sparkles in the title role as the chauffeur's daughter who pines in secret for wealthy playboy William Holden. She's packed off to Paris to forget her heartbreak and returns a fashionable woman of the world - and Holden takes notice. So, too, does his responsible brother Humphrey Bogart, who intends for his kid brother to make a good marriage with a wealthy heiress. Running interference, Bogie steps out with Sabrina himself - and into a comic-love triangle.

DIR/PROD/SCR Billy Wilder; SCR Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman, from the play by Taylor. US, 1953, b&w, 113 min. NOT RATED

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Friday, July 14, 4:30
Sunday, July 16, 2:20
Thursday, July 20, 7:05

 

MY FAIR LADY

Hepburn is Eliza Doolittle, the cockney flower girl who becomes the project of snobbish linguistics professor Henry Higgins (Oscar-winning Rex Harrison), who wagers that he can transform her into a polished lady in six months time but doesn't count on falling in love with her in the process. Hepburn replaced Julie Andrews from the Broadway smash musical (Andrews instead starred in the screen version of MARY POPPINS that year and won the Oscar). Winner of eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for George Cukor, winning on his fifth and final nomination.

DIR George Cukor; SCR Alan Jay Lerner, from his stage musical and the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw; PROD Jack L. Warner. US, 1964, color, 170 min. RATED G

Tickets reserved and purchased online must be retrieved in person at the AFI Silver box office. The same credit card used online must be presented to the cashier to redeem your tickets.

Friday, July 21, 4:00
Sunday, July 23, 3:00
Monday, July 24, 7:30