she flies with her own wings

Hair and makeup tests for Audrey Hepburn’s character, Natasha, in War and Peace, Rome, Italy, 1955.

Audrey photographed by Milton H.Greene on the set of War and Peace,1955

Hair and makeup stills of Audrey Hepburn on the set of the War and Peace, Rome, 1955. (From the Personal Collection of Audrey Hepburn.)

I want to discover… Everything! I want to discover why I know what’s right and still do what’s wrong. I want to discover what happiness is, and what value there is in suffering. I want to discover why men go to war, and what they really say deep in their hearts when they pray to God. I want to discover what it is that men and women feel when they say they love.

War and Peace (1956) dir. King Vidor

LILY JAMES Downton Abbey (2010 - 2015), Cinderella (2015), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), War & Peace (2016), The Exception (2016), Darkest Hour (2017), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

If she looks back at me and smiles on the next turn, she’ll be my wife. — War and Peace (1956) dir. King Vidor

Every Period Drama Ever!

White Oleander, Janet Fitch

Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

Whisteling Swans, Mary Oliver

If I were a man, I’d be down there, riding a terrible black horse… waving a sword! ( Audrey Hepburn as Natasha Rostova in War and Peace, 1956 )