Audrey Hepburn - Late 80s in Vancouver

 In this century, because people can, there is a preponderance of double portraits mostly of actresses that sometimes are underlined, “Remember her? This is what she looks like now. You will gag.”

 For me in that century films were a pleasant escape from reality. I adored Gregory Peck and Grace Kelly. They were in my memory looking at their peak.

So when I faced Audrey Hepburn sometime in the late 80s I made two mistakes. One was to ask her about her former husband Mel Ferrer. She frowned. I then asked her if she had ever had a film partner that was shorter than she was (Hepburn was quite tall when she faced my camera). She said, “Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina.”

My second mistake was that since I did now want to break my memory of how she had been I did not get close with my Mamiya RB-67. Imagine if I had taken a tight portrait of what she looked like then with my heavy duty lights?

And so I can assert that I failed and my only excuse is that I was trying to be well-mannered.