A true icon of cinema, Audrey Hepburn remains to this day one of the ... Two years later, the diarist Anne Frank, who was just six weeks younger than Audrey, went into hiding in concealed rooms ...

Celebrated for her doe-eyed innocence and iconic chic, there was another side to Audrey Hepburn ... The photo above, which shows Hepburn with Anne Frank’s father, Otto, was taken in Bürkenstock ...

Anne Frank and Audrey Hepburn lived just miles away from one ... according to a new biography by Robert Matzen. Though Otto Frank himself requested that Hepburn play his daughter, the actress ...

Audrey Hepburn starred in a constellation of memorable ... although she met with Frank’s Holocaust survivor father, Otto Frank. According to the book, she also declined the role out of fears ...

Audrey’s never were. Audrey meets Fritzi and Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank, in 1957. Courtesy of Robert Matzen / Anne Frank House To Hepburn, Hollywood stardom was a fortuitous turn of ...

Relative normalcy was shattered in 1942 when Hepburn’s uncle, Otto van Limburg ... like Anne Frank. His presence brought the war home “to Audrey in a way a 15-year-old could never have ...

Audrey Hepburn made less than 20 films during her ... turned Frank’s diary into a movie in 1959, Anne’s father Otto Frank — the family’s sole survivor — asked Hepburn to play his late ...

Editor’s Note: This article is one in a series we’re publishing in conjunction with Playing Anne Frank, our podcast about how The Diary of Anne Frank changed the lives of the people who ...