Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Director:

Blake Edwards

Writers:

Truman Capote (novel)
George Axelrod (screenplay)

Release Date:

5 October 1961 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Audrey Hepburn plays that daring, darling Holly Golightly to a new high in entertainment delight!

Plot:

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building.

Plot Keywords:

Apartment | Party | Writer | Neighbor | Drunkenness

Awards:

Won 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 7 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Fri. Feb. 19

8:00 PM

TCM

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Audrey Hepburn	...	Holly Golightly
George Peppard	...	Paul 'Fred' Varjak
Patricia Neal	...	2-E (Mrs. Failenson)
Buddy Ebsen	...	Doc Golightly
Martin Balsam	...	O. J. Berman
José Luis de Villalonga	...	José da Silva Pereira (as VilAllongA)
John McGiver	...	Tiffany's salesman
Alan Reed	...	Sally Tomato
Dorothy Whitney	...	Mag Wildwood
Beverly Powers	...	Nightclub Stripper (as Miss Beverly Hills)
Stanley Adams	...	Rusty Trawler
Claude Stroud	...	Sid Arbuck
Elvia Allman	...	Librarian
Mickey Rooney	...	Mr. Yunioshi
Orangey	...	Cat

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Portuguese

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | Hungary:14 | Canada:G (Ontario) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | South Korea:12 | Canada:PG (Canadian Home Video rating) | Finland:K-16 | Netherlands:AL | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:Unrated | West Germany:12 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

171 East 71st Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Jurow-Shepherd

Trivia:

In the French post-synchronized version of the film, the actors are dubbed by: Jacqueline Carrel (Audrey Hepburn); Roland Ménard (George Peppard); Sylvie Deniau (Patricia Neal); Georges Hubert (Buddy Ebsen); Michel Gudin (Martin Balsam); Georges Riquier (John McGiver); André Valmy (Alan Reed) and Pierre Trabaud (Mickey Rooney).

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Holly and Mr. Pereira come from a dinner/party, he brings a banderilla (from the Spanish and not Brazilian folklore) and says "Ole", in Spanish. (Brazilians speak Portuguese).

Quotes:

[first lines]
Sid Arbuck: [seeing Holly enter her building] Hey!
[he chases her inside]
Sid Arbuck: Hey, baby, what's going on here?
Holly Golightly: Oh, hi!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in It's So Audrey! A Style Icon (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

Moon River

A lot of fun, Audrey was a true beauty and actress of her time

Breakfast At Tiffany's is a pretty famous movie, it's recommended in my movie books and is usually on a top film critic's list as a classic. Before Roman Holiday, I had never seen an Audrey Hepburn film, and I have to say that I am becoming more and more of a fan of her's. She was so beautiful and very talented, not to mention she seemed like a very classy and elegant lady. But the film itself was a pretty good one, this was the movie that made romantic comedy clichés, so that's why I let it go so easily. It seemed like this film had what a lot of romantic comedy films steal now a days.

Holly is a huge socialite in her grand world, she finds happiness and joy in the jewelery store, Tiffany's. She is also being paid 100 dollars to visit a drug Mafia leader in prison to make his day. But things begin to change when a very handsome man moves in down stairs from her, Paul, but she calls him Fred since he looks like her brother. He's also in a similar situation where his "Decorator" is paying him for a good time. But together they find themselves helping one another and realizing they may need each other.

Breakfast at Tiffany's is an elegant classic that I would rate up with Seven Year Itch starring Marilyn Monroe. It has great humor and sizzling romance that anyone could fall in love with. Audrey Hepburn took on a role which the character could have been neuritic and annoying, but she made Holly into someone every woman would like to be. Her and George were great together, I would highly recommend Breakfast at Tiffany's, it's a great classic.

8/10