Hepburn came out of war-torn Belgium with an abiding sense of the crevasse beneath the high wire, and a very odd bloodline: Her mother was a baroness, her father an emotionally remote fascist.
I assure you, she does.
She played a musical hall burlesque star who becomes a World War I spy.
In one chapter she talks about a dinner party she and her husband, Blake Edwards, attended in 1971 that had people doing lines of drugs for dessert and fellow party-goers pressuring the Mary Poppins star to partake.
Newly inspired by the thing that most producers learn in Hollywood on day one, he convinces the studio and his clean reputation wife and lead actress Sally Miles Andrews that what will save the film is an edit job to turn it into a soft-core pornographic musical, in which she will appear topless.
Andrews, then 28, admits she was shaking at the prospect of their on-screen love-making.