{"product_id":"bob-willoughby-audrey-hepburn-photographs-1953-1966","title":"BOB WILLOUGHBY AUDREY HEPBURN Photographs 1953-1966","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBob Willoughby’s\u003c\/strong\u003e tender \u003cstrong\u003eAudrey Hepburn\u003c\/strong\u003e portfolio is an unrivalled record of one of the 20th century’s great beauties. At once an enraptured admirer and trusted friend of the starlet, Willougby captured Hepburn’s elegance on and off set, from her Oscar-winning debut in \u003cem\u003eRoman Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e to the dizzy heights of global fame.\n\nIn his distinguished career as a Hollywood photographer, Bob Willoughby captured \u003cstrong\u003eMarilyn Monroe\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJane Fonda\u003c\/strong\u003e, but remains unequivocal about his favorite subject: \u003cstrong\u003eAudrey Kathleen Ruston\u003c\/strong\u003e, later Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, best known as Audrey Hepburn. Willoughby was called in to shoot the new starlet one morning shortly after she arrived in Hollywood in 1953. It was a humdrum commission for the portraitist often credited with having perfected the photojournalistic movie still, but when he met the Belgian-born beauty, Willoughby was enraptured. “\u003cem\u003eShe took my hand like... well a princess and dazzled me with that smile that God designed to melt mortal men’s hearts,\u003c\/em\u003e” he recalled.\n\nAs Hepburn’s career soared following her Oscar-winning US debut in \u003cem\u003eRoman Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e, Bob Willoughby became a trusted friend, framing her work and home lives. His historic, perfectionist, tender photographs seek out the many facets of Hepburn’s beauty and elegance, as she progresses from her debut to her career high of \u003cem\u003eMy Fair Lady\u003c\/em\u003e in 1963. Willoughby’s studies, showing her on set, preparing for a scene, interacting with actors and directors, and returning to her private life, comprise one of photography’s great platonic love affairs and an unrivalled record of one of the 20th century’s touchstone beauties.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59644013609246,"sku":"BOBWH","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/bob-willoughby-audrey-hepburn-photographs-1953-1966","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}