Hi, Jim, Roman Holiday was Audrey's first "Hollywood" movie (I used quotes, because it was filmed entirely on location in Rome - one of the first movies shot on location). She had bit parts in a few English pics, but this was her first big role.
She did win the Oscar for it. Eddie Albert was a scream in Roman Holiday. He played a freelance photographer. There's a particularly hilarious scene, with him (while driving) popping his head out of the sunroof of a little Italian mini-car (a Fiat?), snapping pics of Peck and Hepburn riding a scooter, with a little 35mm camera - I've never been able to identify the camera, but I'm guessing an old Voigtlander? Albert had quite a wonderful film career before his famous TV role, in particular, playing a psych patient in Captain Newman MD - hey, wasn't that a Peck movie as well? regards, frank Jim Apilado wrote: > I think Audrey Hepburn made her first movie appearance in this film. Can't > recall if got an Academy Award for her performance. A young Eddie Albert was > in it too. He didn't gain fame until "Green Acres" on TV with one of the > Gabor sisters. > -- "What a senseless waste of human life" -The Customer in Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch
