" She was obsessed with the success of her maternal grooming: "Come, August, we shall reply to the king at once."Rocky thanked Dixon for their incredible fight: "You""re a great champion.You""ve got heart.Thanks for the opportunity.Good man." Robert congratulated his father: "That was the greatest thing I""ve ever seen." And Rocky told Paulie: "The beast is gone now.The beast is out." Before the scorecard results were announced, Rocky left the ring with his entourage, applauded by the appreciative, chanting audience..Look at your daughter.She""s going to a big party tonight.And she""s got to wear a dress that""s two years old.How do you expect her o get anywhere?In reality, Alice has a modest, middle-class upbringing and poor family without, in her opinion, proper social graces, but she is supportive of her father""s self-pitying plight and sympathetic o the affliction brought on him by her status-conscious mother.[Her dual role as the creator/author of the tale and as the created creature, he Monster Bride, is symbolic of how evil, monstrous forces lie within all of us.The film received a phenomenal ten Academy Award nominations for a comedy.It won a Best Actress Oscar for its under-experienced British (Belgium-born) actress named Audrey Hepburn - it was her first American film, although she had previously appeared in six European movies (includingLaughter in Paradise (1951, UK),The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, UK), andSecret People (1952, UK)), and on Broadway in an adaptation of Colette""sGigi.