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A retrospective look at the much loved actress' dazzling career, including some rarely seen gems.

And to celebrate the centinnery of Errol Flynn, the GFF invites you to share "two of his swashbuckling greats."

View other Glasgow Film Festival Films by strand: European Cinema, Frightfest, Galas, Glasgow Shorts Film Festival, Great Scots, Happy Birthday Errol Flynn!, It's a Wonderful World, Music and Film, Stranger Than Fiction, The State Of Independents, Viva Mexico!, Youth Film Festival

The Unforgiven and The Children's Hour

The Adventures Of Robin Hood (Country: US; Year: 1938; Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; Writer: Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I Miller; Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Melville Cooper, Ian Hunter, Trigger)

Classic version of the outlaw tale.

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Breakfast At Tiffany's (Country: US; Year: 1961; Director: Blake Edwards; Writer: George Axelrod, based on the book by Truman Capote.; Stars: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Martin Balsam, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, José Luis de Villalonga), Trailer

A writer falls for his mysterious socialite neighbour. Re-issue.

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Captain Blood (Country: US; Year: 1935; Director: Michael Curtiz; Writer: Rafael Sabatini, Casey Robinson; Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Robert Barrat, Hobart Cavanaugh, Donald Meek)

Swashbuckling tale of mutiny, starring Errol Flynn.

The Children's Hour (The Loudest Whisper) (Country: US; Year: 1961; Director: William Wyler; Writer: Lillian Hellman; Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter, Karen Balkin)

Two teachers' lives are ruined by accusations of lesbianism.

Full Review See: Diary article about the Glasgow Film Festival 2009

Charade (Country: US; Year: 1963; Director: Stanley Donen; Writer: Peter Stone; Stars: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy), Trailer

The widow of a thief is pursued by men who may be after his fortune.

Sabrina and Funny Face

Funny Face (Country: US; Year: 1957; Director: Stanley Donen; Writer: Leonard Gershe; Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Dovima, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng), Trailer

A fashion photographer discovers a sales girl's ability as a model and makes her a star.

Full Review See: Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel - and evening with director Lisa Immordino Vreeland

My Fair Lady (Country: US; Year: 1964; Director: George Cukor; Writer: Alan Jay Lerner, based on his own book, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw.; Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett), Trailer

An aristocratic professor takes on a bet that he can pass off a humble flower girl as a high society lady, but falls in love with her in the process.

Roman Holiday (Country: US; Year: 1953; Director: William Wyler; Writer: Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter; Stars: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams), Trailer

A journalist falls in love with a beautiful stranger without realising she's a princess.

Sabrina (Country: US; Year: 1954; Director: Billy Wilder; Writer: Samuel A Taylor, Billy Wilder, Samuel A Taylor, Ernest Lehman; Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, John Williams, Martha Hyer, Joan Vohs, Marcel Dalio, Marcel Hillaire, Nella Walker)

Rags-to-riches meets ugly-duckling story.

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The Unforgiven (Country: USA; Year: 1960; Director: John Huston; Writer: Alan Le May, Ben Maddow; Stars: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Charles Bickford, Lillian Gish, Albert Salmi, Joseph Wiseman, June Walker, Kipp Hamilton)

Gritty John Huston western about heritage and race.

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