Painfully thin!

Audrey was only a thin woman, I read that she was malnourished as a child so maybe she had a good metabolism that allowed her to eat and not gain a lot of weight.

Considering Twiggy was a top model in 1967 and ''thin was in'' when the movie was made, Audrey Hepburn didn't seem so skinny at the time. But after watching this movie again all these years later, I'd have to agree - she seems painfully thin.

Even by Hepburn's usual slight standards, she was very thin in both of her 1967 movies, TWO FOR THE ROAD and WAIT UNTIL DARK.

She was going through hard times in her marriage to Mel Ferrer during filming. Apparently, this movie (which he produced) was kind of a last-ditch attempt to salvage their marriage, but they ended up divorcing in 1968. She was also feeling guilty about working and not being with her son, who was in Switzerland with grandparents (I believe) while she was filming WAIT UNTIL DARK in Burbank.

So yeah, she dropped some pounds from the stress. Plus, WAIT UNTIL DARK itself is not the most cheerful movie in the world-- I'm sure playing an insecure, terrified woman did not ease her pain.

With longer hair and about twenty more pounds on her, she would have looked spectacular. As she was, she looked like she just got up from a very long illness.