Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentTo celebrate Variety’s 115th anniversary, we went to the archives to see how some of Hollywood’s biggest stars first landed in the pages of our magazine.
Read more from the archives here.On July 5, 1950, Variety reviewed the floor show at Ciro’s London, mentioning “a nice dance routine by Diana Monks and Audrey Hepburn.” When you think of nightclub dancers, Hepburn is not the image that comes to mind.
But three years before “Roman Holiday,” she was a struggling performer, after having studied ballet in the Netherlands and London. (She was born in Belgium and her family, like many others, was profoundly affected by WWII, both in the U.K.
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