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gravy train, since even struggling young actresses have to eat. There is nothing base in starting at the bottom with a pretty bottom. Some of Hollywood's most glamorous stars began on the gaudy stage of burlesque, kicking high while lying low, shedding their G-strings while awaiting those big costume roles. CONVENIENT AMNESIA
I don't even think that the aseptic Miss Hepburn herself is ashamed of her role — that was as short as her skirt — in "Sauce Piquante.” No matter how much bashfulness and prudery is now attributed to her in the blurbs, those who know her from those Piquante days aver that bashfulness is not among her character traits.
But somehow Audrey prefers to keep mum about that fleeting phase of her career -in the old Cambridge. She allows, her memory to lapse conveniently whenever she is reminded of it. And she suffers from expedient amnesia when the name of Cecil Landeau, her first impresario, is mentioned. He was the genius who discovered her and gave her that chance in "Sauce Piquante,” long before Paramount’s top-ranking talent scouts penetrated to that artistic talent within her soul.
Come on, Audrey! Americans can take it! Didn't that calendar of Marilyn Monroe become a bestseller?
Audrey made the grade with "Sauce Piquante” after a troubled and often hectic childhood that was further disturbed by the second World War. Her mother is now introduced as the Baroness Ella van Hemmstra, granddaughter of the former royal governor of Dutch Surinam, once a familiar figure at Queen Wilhelmina’s sedate court. In fact, Audrey was born after the Baroness had married J. A. Hepburn-Ruston, the father who is (Continued on Page 49)
Little Audrey coyly rubs cheeks with mother, the Baroness van Hemmstra. As for her father, admirer of Sir Mosley’s Fascists — the less said about the subject, the better!
Once again the arrow points to the “Sauce Piquante” chorus girl Hollywood is now trying to build up as a “typical teen-age type”. If this 24 year old slice of spice is a typical teen-age type, the average teen-age boy in this country must feel he’s sure been missing the boat! During the war, Audrey used to raise money for the Dutch underground by dancing behind drawn shades in private houses in the Netherlands.