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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961)
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Release date: October 5th 1961
Audrey's character: Holly Golightly
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 1 hr, 50 min
Summary:
Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New
York apartment
building
and
becomes intrigued
by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly.
Holly's
lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in
public she
flits through parties with
a
sexy,
sophisticated air, but when they're
alone she changes into a sweetly
vulnerable
bundle of neuroses.
CAST
Holly Golightly - Audrey Hepburn
Paul 'Fred' Varjak - George Peppard
2-E (Mrs Falenson) - Patricia Neal
Buddy Ebsen -
Doc Golightly
Martin Balsam -
O.J. Berman
Mickey Rooney - Mr Yunioshi
José da Silva Pereira - José Luis de Villalonga
Mag Wildwood - Dorothy Whitney
QUOTES
"I'm crazy about Tiffany's"
"Doc, stop calling me that! I'm not Lula Mae anymore!"
"I've got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can't go
to Sing Sing with a green face."
"I'm like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs
to us. We don't even belong to each other. "
"Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab
and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud
look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a
real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some
furniture and give the cat a name! "
"You could always tell what kind of a person a man thinks you are by the
earrings he gives you. I must say, the mind reels."
TRIVIA
Audrey felt that she was miscast as Holly Golightly in although it was one of
her most popular roles.
Henry Mancini said of her: "'Moon River' was written for Audrey. No one else
had ever understood it so completely. There have been more than a thousand
versions of 'Moon River', but hers is inquestionably the greatest".
Her famous "little black dress" , designed by Hubert de Givenchy,
was sold at a Christie's auction for approximately $920,000 in December
2006.
John Frankenheimer was hired to shoot the film with Marilyn Monroe. When the
producers suddenly moved to Switzerland and Audrey Hepburn replaced Monroe,
she said she had never heard of Frankenheimer and insisted that he be paid
off and another director be hired.
Elements of Holly's character in the original novel, such as her flirtation
with bisexuality, were omitted to make the part more suitable for Audrey.
Although it's never explained why Holly is wearing a bed sheet at her
cocktail party, an earlier scene (cut before release) established she'd been
taking a bath and had to improvise a gown on the spur of moment. The cut
scene was featured in Life magazine pictorial shortly before film was
released.
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