Audrey Hepburn in Ondine

Audrey Hepburn starred alongside Mel Ferrer in Ondine at the 46th Street Theatre. The show opened on February 18,1954, and earned Hepburn a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Ondine is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, based on the 1811 novella Undine by the German Romantic Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué that tells the story of Hans and Ondine. Hans is a knight-errant who has been sent off on a quest by his betrothed. In the forest he meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man. The subsequent marriage of people from different worlds is, of course, folly. By turns comic, enchanting, and tragic, Ondine is considered by some to be Giraudoux's finest work.

14" x 11" original silver print with Halsman's stamp on the reverse. Dated 1954.