# Audrey Hepburn vs. Grace Kelly! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audrey-hepburn-vs-grace-kelly/196014 "2003-08-18T18:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audrey-hepburn-vs-grace-kelly/196014/21 "2003-08-19T03:36:26Z")
Orson Welles called Audrey Hepburn the “Patron Saint of anorexics,” but IMHO, he wasn’t saying she was anorexic herself (I believe her excruciating thinness was the result of a childhood disease), only that many female fans might acquire the disorder in a desire to emulate her. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audrey-hepburn-vs-grace-kelly/196014/22 "2003-08-19T06:40:02Z")
Audrey was NOT an anorexic, nor a bulemic. Her weight was the result of malnutrition during WWII, and a bout of colitis (which eventually manifest itself as the colon cancer that killed her). That and she was a dancer, and a smoker, and came from a long line of thin, tall people. Audrey would win. She wasn’t as pampered as Kelly-I mean, Audrey was going into the jungle and handling sick, starving children-all while she was getting sick. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audrey-hepburn-vs-grace-kelly/196014/23 "2003-08-19T06:46:33Z")
What are the conditions of the battle? Pool cues? Flintlocks at twenty paces? Tag team cage match where the gamine lovelies are paired with David and Peter Paul? ---
**Author:** ![Necromancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@Necromancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necromancer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audrey-hepburn-vs-grace-kelly/196014/24 "2003-08-19T08:09:20Z")
I’d say Audrey. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audrey-hepburn-vs-grace-kelly/196014/25 "2003-08-19T08:23:40Z")
Audrey Hepburn ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audrey-hepburn-vs-grace-kelly/196014/26 "2003-08-19T13:09:11Z")
Who says Kelly has the size advantage? IIRC, Hepburn, although she appeared petite, was actually 5’9". Given Kelly’s deceptive nature and love of control (see her sneak-attack kiss of Cary Grant in _To Catch a Thief_ as evidence), I say that if there is a point where they are expected to come out and shake hands before engaging in battle, Grace could lull Audrey into a trap. If, on the other hand, Audrey is well prepared, she would do the damage - especially if armed with a guitar, as she was in _Roman Holiday_… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audrey-hepburn-vs-grace-kelly/196014/27 "2003-08-19T13:36:37Z")
Umm, Grace Kelly is an American. Audrey Hepburn is from Belgium. **USA! USA! USA! USA!** ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audrey-hepburn-vs-grace-kelly/196014/28 "2003-08-19T13:39:20Z")
Both of the broads have great gams, tho. That dame kelly, had gams to die for. Grace Kelly, broad of the century. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audrey-hepburn-vs-grace-kelly/196014/29 "2003-08-19T17:12:50Z")
Grace: From a line of rowers, bricklayers, and Philadelphia politicians. Audrey: From a line of ? No contest. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audrey-hepburn-vs-grace-kelly/196014.md?page=1)