Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn. Kelly, Grace Monroe, And Grace Kelly

Hepburn was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1929. Despite Audrey was born into an aristocratic family, during the wartime struggles she suffered malnutrition and respiratory problems. She studied ballet, but these health issues did not allow her to have a professional future as dancer. Then it was when she began her career in musicals in London. After that, Audrey Hepburn started to act in films, her first big success was The Roman Holiday, movie in which she won her first Oscar. She had a variety of roles and always attracted the public’s attention for her innocence. She is a synonym of elegance. Her most successful film was Breakfast at Tiffany’s and thanks to that role Audrey Hepburn became the face of Givenchy. She was married twice and had two children. Audrey dedicated part of her life to the humanitarian work and died of cancer in 1993 when she was sixty three years old.

This paper was prepared for Introduction to Film History, Module 1 Homework Assignment, taught by Professor Stephanie Sandifer.

Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gatsby from The Great Gatsby, June from The Joy Luck Club, and Edna from The Awakening

college. Even though she might have grown up with a hard life, she fought for different ways to

Based on Filmsite.org, a website that interprets and explains the history of cinemas, mentions that cinemas in the 1960s had more daring films with darker themes, horror, violence, rock ‘n’ roll and crime. There were also an influx of foreign movies and british movies. This decade in film history, was a period struggling to stay afloat as there was a decline in movies. There was a spike in reinvention of cinemas - change of styles to keep up with television and social changes.

Finally, she decided to go to John Murray Anderson drama school when she moved to New York (tc).these schools she hoped would get her where she wants to be. All of it really did helped her big time of her dream but it never helps when people don’t want you to be there in the easy way. She was not considered “beautiful” so no one thought of what she could accomplish.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was born July 28, 1929 in Southampton, NY . She lived a

Television journalist. Born September 25, 1931, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of nightclub impresario Lou Walters (owner of New York 's swanky Latin Quarter) and his wife, Dena. In 1937, Lou Walters expanded his business, which caused his family to adopt an itinerant lifestyle, moving from Boston to New York to Miami Beach.

Films are also treasures of culture, filled with clues and insights into the attitudes and perceptions of the people of the day. While documentary films obviously present a historical record of people and events, dramatic fictional movies can also reveal the same. Comparing the main characters in Hitchcock's 1934

-Born the second child of 8 children. She went to the Nine Partners School and became a teacher after graduation.

Everyone in America, even the most troubling of poverty families attended movies. With a movie to watch, Americans sought refuge in a fantasy world. Films during this time were a perfect distraction. Not only for audiences but also for the artist creating their work. It was extremely

She was also a child prodigy in art, music and was able to speak several languages. Cassatt was able to learn French and German as a child and then, later on, went to study at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at the age of sixteen. During Cassatt time at the academy women were not allowed to use live models instead they learned from casts. Both women were able to get a jump start to their career by having the fortune of having a painter as a father who was able to educate Kauffman and a wealthy family to be able to send Cassatt to a schooling for

page three her mother slapped her and accused her of being ungrateful. In addition as her piano

Films and movies hold much than we can guess, they reveal a lot of vices and rots that are happening in society. Others give a history of a particular society, its beliefs, culture and their standard of living in the society. Films are used to disclose the social responsibilities in a given season and customs, moral values, societal worries and other cultural practices.

She wasn’t ever afraid of what other people thought of her, one of her most admirable traits. She simply does what she believes is best for her and truly brings the most meaning to what it means to live one’s life to the fullest.