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William Holden embodied everything Hollywood once celebrated in a leading man. He was masculine, virile, magnetic, and effortlessly desirable. But that image began to fall apart the moment he found himself standing before Audrey Hepburn.
On a summer night in 1953, the man who seemed to have everything was forced to confess a painful secret to the woman he loved. He could never give her the home or the children she wanted. A vasectomy performed while he was still in his twenties, at his wife’s insistence and with the studio helping arrange matters, had left William Holden with no control over one of the most personal choices of his life.