Aiming to reveal the real Audrey that fans don’t know, Coan (whose last doco Chasing Perfect focused on designer Frank Stephenson) has gathered together friends, family and biographers to offer up a soup-to- nuts trawl through her much-storied life. Those hoping for a clip-heavy walk through her screen career will be sorely disappointed, scenes from her most famous performances are used sparingly, as Coan aims to hammer home the point of just how unhappy Audrey’s life was at times. You’ll learn how the Belgian woman born Audrey Kathleen Ruston’s pro-Hitler father pretended to be an aristocrat and then abandoned his wife and daughter to go and live in the UK. That, as war broke out just after she arrived in Amsterdam in 1939, young Audrey was convinced it would only last a week, only to have to spend part of the next few years living in a cellar and slowly developing malnutrition. And, after entertaining the Dutch resistance (and smuggling hidden messages in her shoes), post-war she started out in UK musicals, subsequently appearing in a string of Ealing comedies, before landing her breakout role in a Broadway production of