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Lot Essay
Hepburn as Susy Hendrix wears the shearling jacket over a simple beige turtleneck sweater and brown belted cords during an early scene in the movie, in which she takes out the rubbish and chats to her young neighbour outside their Greenwich Village apartment building. According to biographer Barry Paris, filming began in New York City in early 1967 and Mayor John Lindsay helpfully agreed to block off traffic in the Village for the ten-day shoot, as thousands of gawkers crowded the barricades for a glimpse of Audrey. While on location in New York, photographer Howell Conant captured Audrey wearing the jacket in a series of haunting publicity portraits taken on the New York docks. One of the images is offered for sale here as lot 214.
Audrey's costumes for Wait Until Dark were not meticulously planned and designed as in her previous productions. Terence Young remembered:
She went somewhere like Saks and bought her meager two costumes off the peg… We settled on the most ordinary ones - she was blind and the colours weren't important. Givenchy was obviously not right for this particular epic.
Nevertheless, Hepburn was enormously proud of her performance as the vulnerable blind girl Susy Hendrix, and cherished this jacket over the years as a reminder of the part, which earned Audrey her fifth and final Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
Audrey's costumes for Wait Until Dark were not meticulously planned and designed as in her previous productions. Terence Young remembered:
She went somewhere like Saks and bought her meager two costumes off the peg… We settled on the most ordinary ones - she was blind and the colours weren't important. Givenchy was obviously not right for this particular epic.
Nevertheless, Hepburn was enormously proud of her performance as the vulnerable blind girl Susy Hendrix, and cherished this jacket over the years as a reminder of the part, which earned Audrey her fifth and final Oscar nomination for Best Actress.