Audrey Hepburn, Secret People (1952) starring Valentina Cortese

Secret People is a 1952 British drama film directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring Valentina Cortese and Serge Reggiani. Audrey Hepburn plays Cortese’s sister and it was her first significant role in a film just prior to her discovery by Hollywood for Roman Holiday. She plays Nora Brentano, a ballerina, making use of her extensive training. The film is set in the 1930s and starred Valentina Cortese as a woman who becomes involved with a group of terrorists and bears responsibility for the accidental death of a bystander during an assassination attempt on the dictator of a fictional European country.

• 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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Audrey Hepburn, Secret People (1952) starring Valentina Cortese
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Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina (1954) starring Humphrey Bogart and William Holden
Audrey Hepburn, War and Peace (1956) starring Henry Fonda and Mel Ferrer
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Audrey Hepburn, Green Mansions (1959) starring Anthony Perkins
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Audrey Hepburn, The Unforgiven (1960) starring Burt Lancaster
Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) starring George Peppard
Audrey Hepburn, The Children’s Hour (1961) starring Shirley MacLaine
Audrey Hepburn, Charade (1963) starring Cary Grant
Audrey Hepburn, My Fair Lady (1964) starring Rex Harrison
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Audrey Hepburn, Two for the road (1967) starring Albert Finney
Audrey Hepburn, Wait until dark (1967) starring Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna
Audrey Hepburn, Robin and Marian (1976) starring Sean Connery
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