Hepburn and her mother moved to London in December 1948 so that the 19-year-old could study ballet at Rambert Dance Company. They settled in a small apartment in Mayfair, where Hepburn's mother got a gig as an apartment manager. With Hepburn's rising success and the financial security that followed, they eventually upgraded to a larger unit within the complex.
After dozens of films over a storied six-decade career, Jodie Foster is trying something new, playing the lead role in a French film for the very first time. There's hardly a trace of an American accent in Foster's turn as Parisian therapist Lilian Steiner in A Private Life (Vie privee) and she appears to be very much at home. The character she plays is an American woman who built her career in France.