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4 unusual facts about Hepburn


Blowhole Diversion Tunnel

The Blowhole diversion tunnel is located on the Sailors (or Jim Crow) Creek, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia.

Jean Hepburn

Jean Hepburn, Lady Darnley, Mistress of Caithness, Lady Morham (died 1599) was a Scottish noblewoman and a member of the Border clan of Hepburn.

MS Batory

After these incidents, she was withdrawn from the North Atlantic route, refurbished at Hepburn for tropic service, and sailed in August 1951 from Gdynia and Southampton to Bombay and Karachi, via Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, and Suez.

Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes

Returning to politics in 1945, Buchan-Hepburn became Deputy Whip and then, in 1948, Chief Whip.


Akaitcho

Besides Franklin, the expeditionary group consisted of John Richardson, doctor and naturalist, Midshipmen Robert Hood and George Back, and Ordinary Seaman John Hepburn.

Alistair Hepburn

Hepburn studied as a chartered surveyor and valuer at Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology in East Sussex before joining the Royal Artillery during World War II.

Barton Hepburn

This was not a stageboard for huge success for Hepburn and he returned to theatre, with a number of appearances at Broadway, until the 1940s when he appeared in a number of films, such as Hi Diddle Diddle (1943), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944), and A Song for Miss Julie (1945).

Black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn

In 1961, Givenchy designed a little black dress for the opening scene of Blake Edwards' romantic comedy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, where Hepburn plays a leading role alongside actor George Peppard.

Bob Crockett

Robert Maxwell Crockett (1863 in Hepburn, Victoria – 11 December 1935, at Footscray, Victoria), was an Australian Test match umpire.

Charles A. Hepburn

Charles A. Hepburn (1891 – 16 July 1971) was a Scottish businessman, a joint founder, along with Herbert Ross, of the Hepburn and Ross whisky blending company, which was the first to blend the popular Red Hackle whisky (blended today by Lang Brothers).

Christopher Strong

An image of Hepburn in Christopher Strong wearing her aviator's suit was used on the poster for the Led Zeppelin North American Tour 1975.

Desk Set

A Canadian radio program, Bunny Watson, was named for and inspired by Hepburn's character.

Fork Church

From 1893 to 1903, Fork Church's rector was the Reverend S. S. Hepburn, grandfather of actress Katharine Hepburn.

Funny Face

Besides her duet with Hepburn, she performs the solo number "Think Pink!" in the presence of a dance chorus, and Thompson and Astaire perform a comic dance duet to "Clap Yo' Hands." Kay Thompson is perhaps best known today as the author of the popular series of books concerning the spoiled rich girl, "Eloise".

Hepburn Act

Along with the Elkins Act of 1903, the Hepburn Act, named for its sponsor, eleven-term Republican William Peters Hepburn, was a subset of one of President Theodore Roosevelt's major goals: railroad regulation.

Hepburn Heights bushland

Hepburn Heights is the name used to describe Crown Land Reserve No. 33286, located in the City of Joondalup suburb of Padbury, about 25 kilometres north-west of the Perth city centre.

In Name Only

However, the disastrous reception of Bringing Up Baby led to Hepburn being considered "box office poison" and Lombard being cast instead.

Jamie Hepburn

Whilst a student, Hepburn ran the unsuccessful campaign for Alasdair Gray to become the Rector of the University of Glasgow and was the Senior Vice-President at the Glasgow University Students' Representative Council, a post once held by his SNP Parliamentary colleague Alasdair Allan.

Educated at Hyndland Secondary School and the University of Glasgow, Hepburn graduated with a Politics and History degree.

Joe Brandy

He then founded radio station WSLB and operated it until the late 1950s, at which time he became president of the board at Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center.

John Hepburn

John Herspolz (died 1485/7), bishop of Dunblane, also known as John Hepburn

Karl E. Case

Karl Case is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States, where he held the Coman and Hepburn Chair in Economics and taught for 34 years.

Kate Remembered

Cynthia McFadden,executor of Hepburn's will and estate also had the same feelings and did not like the book.

Kunrei-shiki romanization

In addition The Japan Times, the Japan Travel Bureau, and many other private organizations used Hepburn instead of Kunrei-shiki.

Laughter in Paradise

The filming of the scene in which Hepburn appears (somewhat against her later "type") was later recreated in the 2000 biopic The Audrey Hepburn Story starring Jennifer Love Hewitt.

This was Hepburn's first professional appearance on film (save for a brief role in a 1948 Dutch film entitled Dutch in Seven Lessons).

Lucille Carroll

In 1942, Hepburn signed a contract with MGM to appear in a picture, Woman of the Year, the first of many in which she appeared with Spencer Tracy.

Melliodora

Melliodora, Hepburn Permaculture Gardens, demonstration property of David Holmgren, founder of Permaculture and Su Dennett, at Hepburn Springs, Victoria, Australia

Monte Carlo Baby

Most Hepburn biographies indicate that it was during the filming of this movie that Hepburn was first discovered by the playwright Colette and chosen for the lead role in the play Gigi, which would lead to Hepburn launching her acting career in Hollywood.

Norman H. Baynes

Professor Norman Hepburn Baynes (1877–1961) was a noted 20th century British historian of the Byzantine Empire.

Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes

Sir Patrick Hepburn of Dunsyre, 1st Lord Hailes (died 1483) was the feudal lord of Hailes and its castle in East Lothian and a Lord of Parliament.

Ralph Hepburn

In 1946, at the age of fifty, Hepburn qualified Novi Governor Special at

Rees Bradley Hepburn

In addition, Rees Bradley Hepburn is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).

Sally Lapiduss

Lapiduss is a 1974 graduate of Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh and worked at the Pittsburgh Public Theater in the late 1970s when she was "discovered" by Katharine Hepburn when she arrived in town to see a production of the Seagull, Lapiduss became Hepburn's assistant.

The Children's Hour

Its film adaptations, These Three (1936) starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, and The Children's Hour (film) (1961), with Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner.


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