Stroboscopic photographs of the New York City Ballet’s production of Jewels, 1969. Photographed by Gjon Mili.
the only thing more powerful than a weird little girl is a weird middle aged woman. the only thing more powerful than a weird middle aged woman is a weird old lady. and the only thing more powerful than a weird old lady is a weird little girl. thus the world is balanced.
She painted little hearts on everything. She had no other logo.
Ted Hughes, describing his wife Sylvia Plath in "Birthday Letters"
Louise Glück, from "Vespers" in The Wild Iris
Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer in Mayerling, 1957
"She seemed so terribly different and very angelic and very ethereal, like some kind of fairy book person."
- Harry Belafonte
"Her life really is like a fairy tale because fairy tales are not just about good stuff. There are terrible things that happen on the way."
- Sean Hepburn Ferrer
The winged swan, ca. 1940 - by Josef Klíma, Czech
lily rose depp for nosferatu (2024) press ⋆. 𐙚 ̊
Newly arrived in the U.S. from Europe to star in the Broadway play Gigi, Audrey Hepburn takes in the sights of New York's Times Square, photo by Lawrence Fried, 1951.
