Audrey Hepburn Google Doodle from May 4, 2014
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Audrey Hepburn, a worthy choice to be sure. She was one of the most respective actresses of her time, ranked by the American Film Institute as the third greatest female screen legend in the history of American cinema, she is one of the few people to have won an Grammy, Tony, Emmy, Oscar, BAFTA, and numerous other accolades for her work as an actress.
She was also a fashion icon, but she may be most worthy of honor for her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She first did work for UNICEF in the 1950s, but it wasn’t until 1988 that she began work in an official capacity. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992, only a year before she died of cancer at the age of only 45.
She’s a worthy subject of honor, to be sure, but I’m curious what criteria Google chooses. Around this time two years ago the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace launched an effort to ask Google to dedicate a Doodle to Pearl S. Buck.
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She is most known for these topics, but she was outspoken on topics such as women’s rights, immigration, racism, democracy, the rights of children with special needs, and war. She was enormously prolific, writing hundreds of books, articles, and other works, but she was also a woman of action. She was involved in action on these causes, too.
In 1949, outraged that existing adoption services considered Asian and mixed-race children unadoptable, along with James A. Michener, Oscar Hammerstein II and his second wife Dorothy Hammerstein, Buck co-founded Welcome House, Inc., the first international, interracial adoption agency, Welcome House. In 1964, to support children in Asia, Buck established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation (now called Pearl S. Buck International) to “address poverty and discrimination faced by children in Asian countries.”
Click here for a list of the awards she’s received for her work. I’d like to take this opportunity to renew my call for a Doodle to be added to this list!