It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?

In Amsterdam Audrey Hepburn studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell before moving to London in 1948 to continue ballet training with Marie Rambert and perform as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions. She met Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti on a cruise and fell in love with him on a trip to Greek ruins. In the 1960s Hepburn would finally locate him again in Dublin through the Red Cross.

She appeared in fewer films as her life went on devoting much of her later life to UNICEF. Born in Ixelles a district of Brussels Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium England and the Netherlands including German-occupied Arnhem during the Second World War. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age.