Audrey Hepburn and the deer that loved her.

In 1958, Audrey Hepburn starred in her husband’s directorial debut, Green Mansions. It was on set that she was given a baby deer that would become her most iconic companion.

Green Mansions was an IOU from MGM Studios, which had promised Hepburn’s then-husband Mel Ferrer that he could direct a movie with Hepburn as star. Instead of writing his own script, Ferrer hired screenwriter Dorothy Kingsley to adapt the bizarre, utopian turn-of-the-century novel by W. H. Hudson, Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest.

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