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Jeremy played the brother of Natasha Rostov (Audrey Hepburn) -- a role he won because filmmaker King Vidor spotted his photograph in a British stage directory and thought he resembled Hepburn. In regard to this, Jeremy recalled in a 1967 magazine article: "I still have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about my looks, largely because I suspect they got me some of my early parts. The most striking example of this was soon after I had crashed my way into repertory at Manchester and someone who saw my picture in the stage directory picked me out of the blue for the part of Audrey Hepburn's brother in the film of War and Peac simply because I looked like her." He certainly liked the way Audrey looked, too, as accounted for in a book called Audrey Hepburn, by Barry Paris. In spring of 1955, Jeremy visited the Ferrers (husband-and-wife War and Peace co-stars Mel Ferrer and Audrey Hepburn) at their house in Albano, 20 miles outside Rome. He is quoted in the book as saying, "When I arrived at their house, Mel met me and under his right arm popped a little girl with no makeup who looked about 16 years old -- an exquisitely delicate, porcelain doll. I was spellbound. I remember swimming with them and banging my head on the side of the pool because I was so busy looking at her." In filming War and Peace, Jeremy spent six months filming at Rome's Cinecitta Studios, with some location filming in the Italian Alps. -- The Brettish Empire Some movie trivia from IMDb: In the hunting scene, Jeremy is the only actor riding a real horse. IMDb page // Wikipedia page // Answers.com summary and review New York Times review from 1956 // Review at Napoleon.com Full text of Tolstoy's novel online DVD available: Amazon U.S. // Amazon U.K. |
War and Peace