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Audrey Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Ixelles, Belgium in 1929. Her father was a wealthy English banker, and her mother was a Dutch baroness. She had dual citizenship, and she spent much time in England growing up. In 1935, her parents divorced (her father was a Nazi sympathizer) and she went to a school in England for three years. In 1938 her mother moved to the Netherlands, and she went to school there and studied ballet. In 1940, the Netherlands were occupied by the Nazis, and Hepburn spent the rest of the war living in a Nazi occupied country. After the war, she lived in Amsterdam and continued studying and performing ballet. But she could not earn much money, and in 1948 she started acting as well, and also modeling. She appeared in several minor roles over the next few years. In 1951 she played the lead in in the Broadway play Gigi, and the following year she had her best film role to date in Secret People. The next year she starred in Roman Holiday opposite Gregory Peck, and that made her an international star and won her the Oscar for Best Actress. After she filmed Roman Holiday she returned to New York and starred in Gigi for another eight months! The following year she starred in Sabrina, opposite Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. After filming, she returned to the stage and starred in Ondine, and won a Tony Award, at the same time she was receiving her Oscar for Roman Holiday! She followed with a long string of hits, including Breakfast at Tiffany's and My Fair Lady (she did not know until after signing to star that she would not sing in the movie). She did not star in the movie version of Gigi because she wanted to star in Funny Face instead, because she had been a professional dancer and she got to dance with Fred Astaire. In 1967 she starred in the fine thriller Wait Until Dark, and she decided to retire at the peak of her career and devote her time to her children, something few actors have ever done. She came out of retirement for the wonderful Robin and Marian in 1976 (opposite Sean Connery) and then made four more movies over the next 13 years, and passed away in 1993. Just as Marilyn Monroe was THE female icon of the 1950s, Audrey Hepburn was THE female icon of the 1960s. Will there ever be another actress who has this much impact on the world? I doubt it! AND Rex Harrison was born Reginald Carey Harrison in Lancashire, England in 1908. He decided to become "Rex" while still a boy, because it is the Latin word for "king"! He started acting on the London stage at 16. He had some success, but his breakthrough role came twelve years later in French Without Tears, a comic farce which was the first play by Terence Rattigan. After that, he continued to appear in plays, but he also appeared in major English films, including Major Barbara and Blithe Spirit. He came to the U.S. after Blithe Spirit, and made three movies, and then made Anna and the King of Siam (the non-musical precursor of The King and I), and quickly followed it with four more movies the following two years. But tragedy struck in 1947, because of Harrison's very active love life! He had divorced his first wife in 1942 and married German actress Lilli Palmer. In 1947, still married to Palmer, he had an affair with Carole Landis, and she committed suicide, and he discovered the body. He attended the funeral with Palmer in an attempt to smooth things over, but the scandal was too great, and Harrison's contract was dissolved and he left Hollywood. For most of the next decade he stayed on the stage, in both London and New York. In 1956, he was Henry Higgins in the first production of My Fair Lady, and it was one of the most successful shows of all time. Harrison played the role in the 1964 film version, and won the Best Actor Oscar (the year before he had played a lead role in Cleopatra). He appeared in a number of big budget movies over the next few years, including The Agony and the Ecstasy and Doctor Dolittle. He mostly retired from movies in the late 1970s, but continued to act on stage the rest of his life. He was married a total of six times and he was nicknamed "Sexy Rexy"!

Important Added Info: Note that this item has been personally autographed (signed) by BOTH Audrey Hepburn AND Rex Harrison! It is a menu from Continental Airlines for their "Gold Carpet Service", and the menu itself is really amazing (what you would find in a really fine restaurant). Someone, likely the stewardess, got both stars to sign the back of the menu, and they added the date of the signing, which was October 24, 1964, which was three days after the New York premiere and four days before the Hollywood premiere of "My Fair Lady", so it would seem a certainty that the stars were flying from New York to Hollywood on the 24th. Our consignor has no certificate of authenticity, but everything fits for this being authentic (and where would one get a menu from Continental Airlines from 1964 if one wanted to make a fake!), but please compare the signatures to known examples of these two great stars before bidding on this item. THE HIGH BIDDER ON THIS AUCTION WILL HAVE 30 DAYS AFTER THE END OF THE AUCTION TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE KEEPING IT, AND AFTER 30 DAYS, THERE WILL BE NO RETURN ABILITY ON THIS ITEM.

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