AUDREY HEPBURN & GREGORY PECK THEIR UNENDING Love Story

THE STARS OF ROMAN HOLIDAY SHARED A WARM, SUPPORTIVE RELATIONSHIP THAT LASTED UNTIL THE END OF THEIR LIVES

- Louise A. Barile

In the 1953 film Roman Holiday, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck’s characters visit The Mouth of Tr uth, an ancient sculpture in Rome. “The legend is that if you’re given to lying, you put your hand in there, it’ll be bitten off,” says Gregory as American journalist Joe Bradley. When Joe tries it, he fakes losing his hand, shocking Audrey’s Princess Ann before causing her to erupt in laughter at his joke. Gregory later revealed that he hadn’t told Audrey what he was going to do and her reaction in the film was genuine.

Despite sweltering heat and crowds of gawkers, the filming of Roman Holiday in the summer of 1952 marked the beginning of a long, warm friendship between its stars. “Everyone on the set of Roman Holiday was in love with Audrey,” said Gregory. “We did that one picture together, and I think it was the happiest experience I ever had on a movie set.”