We're finishing up our series on Audrey Hepburn with one of her last roles, in Peter Bogdanovich's They All Laughed (1981).

Hepburn plays Angela, the wife of a wealthy European businessman who has hired John Russo (Ben Gazarra) to spy on her out of suspicion of infidelity. Russo and Angela wind up becoming involved, however, which parallels Russo's colleague Charles (John Ritter) falling in love with the woman he is tailing, Dolores (Dorothy Stratten). All manner of other hijinks ensue, in a film that mixes screwball comedy with hardboiled noir and brings the trappings of Classic Hollywood to the 1980s.

They All Laughed marked the tail end of Bogdanovich's most creative run, which began in the 1960s, and also coincided with the end of the 1970s halcyon period in which filmmakers were afforded an unprecedented level of freedom. It buckled under the burden of the tragedy that befell Stratten prior to the film's release, but in recent years and has been rediscovered as a minor classic. It's a key film for Bogdanovich, and Hepburn, despite not having a lot of screen time, brings a huge amount of gravitas and understated melancholy to her role.