Audrey Hepburn, Green Mansions (1959, Mel Ferrer) starring Anthony Perkins

Green Mansions is a 1959 American romantic adventure film directed by Mel Ferrer. Based upon the 1904 novel Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson, the film starred Audrey Hepburn (who at the time was married to Mel Ferrer) as Rima, a jungle girl who falls in love with a Venezuelan traveller played by Anthony Perkins. Also appearing in the film were Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakawa and Henry Silva. The score was by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Bronislau Kaper.

The film was intended to be the first of several projects directed by Mel Ferrer and starring Audrey, but ultimately this was the only one released. It was one of the few critical and box office failures of Hepburn’s early career. Vincente Minnelli had originally been slated to direct the film, but delays in the project led MGM to choose Mel Ferrer to direct it.

• This post is part of the Celebrating Audrey Hepburn series, wich contains 350 high resolution pictures of the film icon Audrey Hepburn, including movie posters, stills, on-set pictures and fashion photoshoots (21 posts, 290 Mb) :
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