"loosely based on the novella by Truman Capote. Changes were made to fit the medium of cinema and to correspond to the filmmakers' vision. Capote, who sold the film rights of his novella to Paramount Studios, wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly Golightly, whom he had described perfectly in the book. Barry Paris cites Capote's own comments on the choice of actress: ""Marilyn was always my first choice to play the girl, Holly Golightly."" Screenwriter Axelrod was hired to ""tailor the screenplay for Monroe"". When Lee Strasberg advised Monroe that playing a ""lady of the evening"" would be bad for"
"and sky. Later on, when Joel tussles with Idabell (Aubrey Dollar), a tomboyish neighbor who becomes his best friend (a character inspired by the author Harper Lee), the movie has a special force and clarity in its evocation of the physical immediacy of being a child playing outdoors. Notes Bibliography Archival sources Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote (; born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"""
"Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) Breakfast at Tiffany's is a novella by Truman Capote published in 1958. In it, a contemporary writer recalls his early days in New York City, when he makes the acquaintance of his remarkable neighbor, Holly Golightly, who is one of Capote's best-known creations. In autumn 1943, the unnamed narrator befriends Holly Golightly. The two are tenants in a brownstone apartment in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Holly (age 18–19) is a country girl turned New York café society girl. As such, she has no job and lives by socializing with wealthy men, who take her to clubs"
"my generation,"" adding that he ""would not have changed two words in ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"""". The novella was loosely adapted into the 1961 movie ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" starring Audrey Hepburn and directed by Blake Edwards. The movie was transposed to 1960 rather than the 1940s, the period of the novella. In addition to this, at the end of the film the protagonist and Holly fall in love and stay together, whereas in the novella there is no love affair whatsoever—Holly just leaves the United States and the narrator has no idea what happened to her since then, except for a"
"Sundays at Tiffany's Sundays at Tiffany's is a romance novel by the authors James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet released on April 29, 2008. It has also been adapted into a Lifetime Television original movie that premiered on December 6, 2010. The book opens with Jane Margaux and her imaginary friend, Michael, spending a Sunday at the St. Regis Plaza in New York City eating ice cream together, which they do every Sunday. Michael is an imaginary friend who is randomly assigned to children who need extra support and guidance. However, he is called away from the children when they become"
"Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote (; born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958) and the true crime novel ""In Cold Blood"" (1966), which he labeled a ""nonfiction novel"". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from his work. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations. He had discovered his calling as"
"Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack from the 1961 movie ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" starring Audrey Hepburn. The tracks were re-arranged parts of the film music composed and conducted by Henry Mancini. At the 1962 Academy Awards, Mancini and lyricist Johnny Mercer won Oscars for Best Original Song for ""Moon River"", while Mancini picked up a second statue for Best Original Score. The album also stayed on Billboard's album charts for over ninety weeks. Because of his success with title themes, such as the hit theme to the"
"Valley Days"". Then a neighboring widow and baker, (Amzie Strickland), enters the picture. Adams died in 1977 as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 62. His suicide has been attributed to severe depression as a result of a back injury, sustained earlier in the decade. Apart from the obvious pain, it would almost certainly have limited his employment opportunities. Stanley Adams (actor) Stanley Adams (April 7, 1915 – April 27, 1977) was an American actor and screenwriter. He appeared in many television series and films, notably ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961). Born in New York City,"
"Capote's original book. I. Y. Yunioshi I. Y. Yunioshi is a fictional character in Blake Edwards' 1961 American romantic comedy ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", which was adapted for the screen by George Axelrod based on Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same title. The character in the film is significantly different from the character as presented in Capote's original novella, and the film version of Mr. Yunioshi, as portrayed by Mickey Rooney, has been the subject of extensive critical commentary and review since its theatrical release. In the early 1960s and before, racially charged humor was acceptable in American culture, although"
"commented on the pivotal impact of Hepburn's portrayal of Golightly: ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" set Hepburn on her [19]60s Hollywood course. Holly Golightly, small-town Southern girl turned Manhattan trickster, was the naughty American cousin of Eliza Doolittle, Cockney flower girl turned ""My Fair Lady"". Holly was also the prototype for the Hepburn women in ""Charade"", ""Paris When It Sizzles"", and ""How to Steal a Million"": kooks in capers. And she prepared audiences for the ground-level anxieties that Hepburn characters endured in ""The Children's Hour"", ""Two for the Road"" and ""Wait Until Dark"". ""The New York Times"" called the film a ""completely"
"I. Y. Yunioshi I. Y. Yunioshi is a fictional character in Blake Edwards' 1961 American romantic comedy ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", which was adapted for the screen by George Axelrod based on Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same title. The character in the film is significantly different from the character as presented in Capote's original novella, and the film version of Mr. Yunioshi, as portrayed by Mickey Rooney, has been the subject of extensive critical commentary and review since its theatrical release. In the early 1960s and before, racially charged humor was acceptable in American culture, although this general attitude"
"Sportsman of the Year, Woodruff Cup, Viking Rowing, Rings: NY Giants (2007, 2010) NO Saints (2009) SF Giants (2010, 2012) USA Basketball (2010, 2012) LA Kings (2012, 2014) LA Galaxy (2012) Seattle Seahawks (2012) The retailer has earned mentions in various works, most notably in the title of the 1958 Truman Capote novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", famously adapted as a 1961 film of the same name starring Audrey Hepburn, which in turn prompted a 1966 musical flop. The Hepburn film was later invoked in the refrain of a 1995 alternative rock song. In the 1974 song ""Hotel California"" by the"
"Sundays at Tiffany's (film) Sundays at Tiffany's is a 2010 made-for-TV romance film directed by Mark Piznarski. Originally airing on Lifetime, the film based on the novel of the same name by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet, and stars Alyssa Milano, Eric Winter, Ivan Sergei and Stockard Channing. In 1990, ten-year-old Jane Claremont (Emily Alyn Lind) is infauted with her imaginary friend Michael (Gage Munroe), to the disappointment of her mother Vivienne (Stockard Channing), who thought that her daughter is not normal and even sends her to therapy because of her relationship with Michael . Michael knows that he has"
"at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, starring Anna Friel as Holly Golightly and Joseph Cross as William 'Fred' Parsons. The second version was written by Richard Greenberg for a 2013 Broadway production at the Cort Theatre, starring Emilia Clarke as Holly Golightly, Cory Michael Smith as Fred, and George Wendt as Joe Bell. The Greenberg play was produced in the UK in 2016, called ""a play with music"". It ran at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the West End in June to September 2016. Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) Breakfast at Tiffany's is a novella by Truman Capote published in"
"for the Holly Golightly character in Truman Capote's novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". She was twice married to Pulitzer Prize-winning writer William Saroyan over an eight-year period. The couple had two children: Aram Saroyan, an internationally known writer, and the late actress Lucy Saroyan, who died in 2003. She subsequently married actor Walter Matthau on August 21, 1959. The couple remained wed until his death on July 1, 2000; they had one son, Charles. She had a wide social circle and was known for her wit and good company. In 1955 she published a novella based on her experiences as a"
"required to play an extrovert. ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" was received positively at the time, and won two Academy Awards: Best Original Score and Best Original Song for ""Moon River"", which was also selected as the fourth most memorable song in Hollywood history by the American Film Institute in 2004. The film was also nominated for three other Academy Awards: Best Actress for Hepburn, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Art Direction. In 2012, the film was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Early one morning,"
"a restaurant with the money he has won, Danny grows even closer to the Solitanos, and Pat and Tiffany begin a relationship, no longer wearing their wedding rings. Renee Witt, an executive at The Weinstein Company, convinced Harvey Weinstein to option the book on which the film is based, doing so before it was published. Sydney Pollack then began developing for David O. Russell to direct. Pollack told Russell that the film adaptation would be tricky because of the story's mixture of troubling emotion, humor, and romance. Russell estimates he rewrote the script twenty times over five years. Russell was"
"the man brings up the Audrey Hepburn film ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", and his girlfriend recalls that they ""both kinda liked it."" He argues that this should serve as enough motivation for them to work out their problems based on the notion that love will always find a way to make things work. The film ""Roman Holiday"" inspired the lyrics of the song, but songwriter Todd Pipes thought that one of Hepburn's other films would make a better song title. Brian Wahlert called Breakfast at Tiffany's ""a cute, catchy song that should fit in well on adult contemporary, Top-40 and alternative"
"Moore and Bo Derek. ""Operation Petticoat"" was Edwards' first big-budget movie as a director. The film, which starred Tony Curtis and Cary Grant and was produced by Grant's own production company, Granart Company, became the ""greatest box-office success of the decade for Universal [Studios]"" and made Edwards a recognized director. ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", based on the novel by Truman Capote, is credited with establishing him as a ""cult figure"" with many critics. Andrew Sarris called it the ""directorial surprise of 1961"", and it became a ""romantic touchstone"" for college students in the early 1960s. ""Days of Wine And Roses"", a"
"as it is in the film. The Silver Linings Playbook The Silver Linings Playbook is a 2008 debut novel of American author Matthew Quick. The book is narrated through the eyes of Pat Peoples, and occasionally Tiffany's through letters. A former history teacher who has moved back to his childhood home in Collingswood, New Jersey, after spending time in a Baltimore psychiatric hospital, Pat believes he has been away only a few months, but soon realizes it has been years, and struggles to piece together his lost memories and what has become of his wife, Nikki. He has a hypothesis"
"while Reagan was serving as President of the United States; the letters were bought by Malcolm Forbes and given to Reagan's wife, Nancy. Lilly was a socialite and wrote several books about people of great wealth including ""Glamor Girl"" (1977; with co-author Robin Moore) and ""Those Fabulous Greeks: Onassis, Niarchos and Livanos"" (1970). Lilly has been cited as, and claimed herself, that she was an inspiration for Holly Golightly, the lead character in Truman Capote's novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". The title of Lilly's first book, ""How to Marry a Millionaire"" was adapted for a film of the same name starring"
"is sometimes revealed in later scenes. Several locations are used in different segments to show continuity throughout the twelve-year period. Frederic Raphael received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Audrey Hepburn received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actress, and Henry Mancini received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score. The film's theme song, ""Two for the Road"", was composed by Mancini, who wrote many notable theme songs for films, including ""Moon River"" for ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". He considered ""Two for the Road"" his favorite of all the songs he wrote. Cars featured in the film,"
"Breakfast of Champions (film) Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 American black comedy film adapted and directed by Alan Rudolph, from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s 1973 novel of the same name. Though the producers entered it into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival, the film was panned by critics and was a box office bomb that was withdrawn from theatres before going into wide release. Dwayne Hoover, a car salesman who is the most respected businessman in Midland City, Indiana, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, even attempting suicide daily. His wife, Celia, is addicted to pills, and his"
"the ""Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"" criticizing it as reading ""more like a dispatch from someone working at TMZ than a ""New York Times"" reporter"". On December 17, 2013, the Lifetime television network announced it was adapting the book into a two-hour television film, but by 2016 the cable network's option on the project had lapsed. The book now serves as inspiration for the upcoming drama series ""Top of the Morning"" and will focus on the life of people working in morning television. The series will star and be executive produced by Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon for Apple. Top of the Morning"
"to sing in the film ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". The lyrics, written by Mercer, are reminiscent of his childhood in Savannah, Georgia, including its waterways. As a child, he had picked huckleberries in summer, and connected them with a carefree childhood and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Although an instrumental version is played over the film's opening titles, the lyrics are first heard in a scene where Paul ""Fred"" Varjak (George Peppard) discovers Holly Golightly (Hepburn) singing the song, and accompanying herself on the guitar, while sitting on the fire escape outside their apartments. There was an eruption of behind-the-scenes consternation when"
"socialite protagonist in Truman Capote's ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958), which was made into a film starring Audrey Hepburn in 1961. The name of this character is stated to be short for ""Holiday"" (rather than a reference to the plant). The name peaked in popularity in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, and has declined since, ranking at #380 in the United States as of 2009. It was popularly given in England and Wales during the 2000s, staying in the top 30 girls' names throughout 1996–2012, with a peak at rank #12 in 2002 (and dropping to rank #33"
"pictures off the pages and into the gutters, he communicated the emotional impact of the dance without words. While it has never been published or seen, Brodovitch did the design work for what would have been the very first publication of Truman Capote's novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" in Harper's Bazaar. The novella was to appear in the July, 1958 issue. It was to be illustrated with a series of photo montages by David Attie, who had been a student of Brodovitch's the previous year and was offered the job on the final night of the class. Alice Morris, the fiction"
"restaurant, and husband later suffers the same fate. Compulsively told, the strategies of deception smart as a new pin, and generally well up to 'forties standard. But the solution takes more swallowing than cyanided champagne."" In 1983, CBS writers Robert Malcolm Young, Sue Grafton and Steven Humphrey adapted the book into a television film, directed by Robert Michael Lewis, set in modern day California and starring Anthony Andrews as the central character, Tony Browne, with Deborah Raffin as Iris Murdoch, Pamela Bellwood as Ruth Lessing, Josef Sommer as George Barton, David Huffman and June Chadwick as Stephen and Sandra Farraday,"
"the insistence that the song stay in the film it was not cut and went on to be a hit. Blake Edwards and Henry Mancini met through Mancini’s wife whom Edwards had known for a number of years. After connecting they decided to collaborate on the television show ""Peter Gunn"", for which Mancini created the title theme. When Edwards learned he would be directing ""Breakfast at Tiffany’s"" he chose Mancini as his partner. Both times their partnership scored gold, and went on to work collaborate on four other films together. All the credit for the song “Moon River” cannot be"
"Holly Golightly in Truman Capote's popular novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". While playing in ""Bloomer Girl"" in October 1944, she received a War Department telegram telling her of the death of her brother, Buddy McCracken, a month earlier during particularly vicious combat on the Pacific island of Peleliu. She reacted violently when she heard the news, tearing up her dressing room. McCracken told Capote of the incident, and he used it in the novella. In the book, Holly Golightly has a violent outburst in reaction to her brother's death during Army service overseas. Golightly is shown singing songs from ""Oklahoma!"", accompanying"
"become one of the most famous photographers in history. While living in her apartment in New York, a young author, Truman Capote visited a friend in an apartment near hers. Capote was fascinated by Dorian's lifestyle of non-stop men, coming-and-goings, and having a store across the street handle her phone calls (since there were no answering machines back in the early 1950s). He struck up a friendship with Dorian, and called her ""Happy-go-lucky."" Capote's character Holly Golightly in his famous 1958 novel Breakfast at Tiffany's is said to be largely based on Dorian's life, as well as socialite Gloria Vanderbilt's."
"is her biological father, a character renamed Father Liam, although a number of reviews erroneously call him Father Bernard, as in the book. Cillian Murphy won an IFTA Award (2007) for Best Actor and was nominated for Golden Globe (2006) as Best Actor in Musical or Comedy for his performance. Patrick McCabe and Neil Jordan won the IFTA for Best Script, and Jordan also won Best Director. Breakfast on Pluto Breakfast on Pluto is a 1998 novel by Patrick McCabe. The book was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize, and was adapted for the screen by McCabe and Neil Jordan;"
"Blake Edwards William Blake Crump (July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010), better known by his stage name Blake Edwards, was an American filmmaker. Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio scripts before turning to producing and directing in television and films. His best-known films include ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", ""Days of Wine and Roses"", ""10"", ""Victor/Victoria"", and the hugely successful Pink Panther film series with British actor Peter Sellers. Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in"