"Breakfast at Tiffany's (film) Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and written by George Axelrod, loosely based on Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name. Starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney, the film was initially released on October 5, 1961 by Paramount Pictures. Hepburn's portrayal of Holly Golightly as the naïve, eccentric socialite is generally considered to be the actress's most memorable and identifiable role. Hepburn regarded it as one of her most challenging roles, since she was an introvert"
"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,"
"their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), ""Charade"" (1963), ""Hatari!"" (1962), ""Touch of Evil"" (1958) and ""Wait Until Dark"" (1967) were also nominated for the list. Mancini was nominated for seventy-two Grammy Awards and won twenty. He was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards and won four. He also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. In 1961, Mancini won two Academy Awards, one for ""Moon River"" for Best Original Song and one for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for the movie ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". In"
"After his service, he would go on to head production at Warner Bros. in 1970 and MGM in 1976, before founding his own agency, the Artists Agency, where he would work into his 70s. His notable role as producer came with the 1961 film ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". When Paramount Pictures wanted to replace the signature song ""Moon River"", both Shepherd and co-producer Martin Jurow exclaimed ""Over our dead bodies!"" The song later won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Shepherd was married to Judith Mayer Goetz from 1954 to 1968. They had three children, Scott, Tony, and Victoria. In"
"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"
"in improvisation. Murtagh died on September 10, 2017 at the age of 96. Kate Murtagh Kate Murtagh (October 29, 1920 – September 10, 2017) was an American actress, and a native of Los Angeles, California. She appeared in films including ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961),""The Night Strangler"" (1973), ""Dirty O'Neil"" (1974), ""Switchblade Sisters"" (1975), ""Farewell, My Lovely"" (1975), ""The Car"" (1977), ""Doctor Detroit"" (1983) and """" (1992). She has appeared on television in shows including ""Daniel Boone"", ""My Three Sons"", ""The Munsters"", ""I Dream of Jeannie"", ""The Twilight Zone"" and ""Highway to Heaven"". Murtagh is pictured on the front and back"
"Breakfast at Tiffany's (musical) Breakfast at Tiffany's is a musical with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill and a book originally by Abe Burrows but rewritten during pre-Broadway tryouts by Edward Albee. It is based on the 1958 Truman Capote novella and 1961 film of the same name about a free spirit named Holly Golightly. After tryouts in Philadelphia and Boston, and four previews on Broadway in 1966, the show was closed by producer David Merrick without ever opening officially. Its only revival was a staged concert in 2013 at a 200-seat venue in London. A studio recording was released"
"on to star in a number of successful films, such as ""Sabrina"" (1954), ""The Nun's Story"" (1959), ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), ""Charade"" (1963), ""My Fair Lady"" (1964), and ""Wait Until Dark"" (1967), for which she received an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from BAFTA, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of only 15 people who have"
"was contemptuous of the 1957 film version, saying that he did not go to see it because the studio ""never used my story, my play or my script."" In 1959–60, Lauren Bacall starred in his comic play ""Goodbye Charlie"" which ran for 109 performances, followed by a film version with Debbie Reynolds. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Axelrod was one of the best paid screenwriters in Hollywood, and he was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". He was highly regarded for his adaptation of Richard Condon's novel for director"
"out, Wong appeared on the cover of ""Look"" magazine's second issue, which labeled her ""The World's Most Beautiful Chinese Girl."" Stereotyped in America as a dragon lady, the cover photo had her holding a dagger. The 1961 film ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" has been criticized for its portrayal of the character Mr. Yunioshi, Holly's bucktoothed, stereotyped Japanese neighbor. Mickey Rooney wore makeup to change his features to a caricatured approximation of a Japanese person. In the 45th anniversary edition DVD release, producer Richard Shepherd repeatedly apologizes, saying, ""If we could just change Mickey Rooney, I'd be thrilled with the movie"". Director"
"Hepburn decided to wear Givenchy clothes on and off the screen, such as in ""Sabrina"" (1954), ""Love in the Afternoon"" (1957), ""Funny Face"" (1957), ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), ""Charade"" (1963), ""Paris When It Sizzles"" (1963), ""How to Steal a Million"" (1965) and ""Bloodline"" (1979). Beginning as a client, she became the muse of the house for forty years, in some most classical films. In 1961, Audrey Hepburn installed the reputation of the house by wearing the famous ""little black dress"" in ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". In 1957 Givenchy created a floral aldehyde fragrance, ""L`Interdit"", for Miss Hepburn’s sole use. His other"
"elegant manner and superior acting skills landed Peppard his most famous film role as Paul Varjak in ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" with Audrey Hepburn, based on a story by Truman Capote. This 1961 role boosted him briefly to a major film star. That year a newspaper article dubbed him ""the next big thing"". Peppard said he had turned down two TV series and was focused on being a film star. His contract with MGM was for two pictures a year, allowing for one outside film and six TV appearances a year, plus the right to star in a play every second"
"John McGiver John Irwin McGiver (November 5, 1913 – September 9, 1975) was an American character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975. The owl-faced, portly character actor with his mid-Atlantic accent and precise diction, was often cast as pompous Englishmen and other stuffy, aristocratic and bureaucratic types. He was known for his performances in such films as ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961); ""The Manchurian Candidate"" (1962); and ""Who's Minding the Store?"" (1963). He appeared on many television shows and commercials during the 1960s and early 1970s,"
"21st Golden Globe Awards The 21st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963 films, were held on March 11, 1964. ""' Sidney Poitier - ""Lilies of the Field"" ""' Alberto Sordi - ""The Devil (Il diavolo)"" ""' Leslie Caron - ""The L-Shaped Room"" ""' Shirley MacLaine - ""Irma la Douce"" ""' Elia Kazan - ""America, America"" ""' ""The Cardinal"" ""' ""Tom Jones"" ""' John Huston - ""The Cardinal"" ""' Margaret Rutherford - ""The V.I.P.s"" ""' Mickey Rooney - ""Mickey"" ""' Inger Stevens - ""The Farmer's Daughter"" ""' ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"" ""' ""The Richard Boone Show"""
"• ""Peter Gunn"" (TV Series: 61 episodes, 1958-1960) as Philip Lathrop<br> • ""Hong Kong"" (TV Series: 24 episodes, 1960-1961) Director of Photography<br> • ""Perry Mason"" (TV Series: 2 episodes, 1961) Director of Photography<br> • ""Breakfast at Tiffany’s"" (1961) co-cinematographer, uncredited<br> • ""Experiment in Terror"" (1962) Director of Photography<br> • ""Lonely Are the Brave"" (1962) Director of Photography<br> • ""Combat!"" (TV Series: 1 episode, 1962) Director of Photography<br> • ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962) Director of Photography<br> • ""Dime with a Halo"" (1963)<br> • ""Vacation Playhouse"" (TV Series: 1 episode, 1963) Director of Photography<br> • ""Twilight of Honor"" (1963) Director"
"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"
"the famous Broadway flop """"Breakfast at Tiffany's"" ""(1966), a musical version of the Truman Capote novella with Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain that never officially opened. "" He choreographed the 1969 film adaptation of the hit Broadway play ""Hello, Dolly!"" The film was beset by tension on the unhappy set, with Barbra Streisand clashing with her costar Walter Matthau and director Gene Kelly; Kidd also had conflicts with costume designer Irene Sharaff and Kelly, to the point that he and Kelly were no longer on speaking terms. The film was not a success as a musical, with Kelly and"
"Dean Martin and Lewis. In a 1975 re-issue of ""MAD Magazine"" the contents of Lewis' wallet is satirized in their on-going feature ""Celebrities' Wallets"". Lewis, and Martin & Lewis, as himself or his films, have been referenced by directors and performers of differing genres spanning decades, including, Blake Edwards's ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1960), Andy Warhol's Soap Opera (1964), John Frankenheimer's ""I Walk the Line"" (1970), Francis Ford Coppola's ""The Godfather"" (1972), Randal Kleiser's ""Grease"" (1978), Rainer Werner Fassbinder's ""In a Year of 13 Moons"" (1978), Quentin Tarantino's Four Rooms (1995), Martin Scorsese's ""Gangs of New York"" (2002), Hitchcock (2012), Ben"
"under hospice care after a lingering illness. His body was cremated. George Axelrod George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play, ""The Seven Year Itch"" (1952), which was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" and also adapted Richard Condon's ""The Manchurian Candidate"" (1962). Axelrod was born in New York City, the son of Beatrice Carpenter, a silent film actress, and Herman Axelrod, a"
"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, Adams had his first film role playing the bartender in the movie version of ""Death of a Salesman"" (1951). He played another barkeep in ""The Gene Krupa Story"" and a safecracker in Roger Corman's ""High School Big Shot"" (1959). Adams had a lengthy career as a character actor, often playing comic, pompous characters. He is known for playing Cyrano Jones in the """" episode"
"Orangey Orangey (also Orangey Minerva), a male marmalade tabby cat, was an animal actor owned and trained by the cinematic animal handler Frank Inn. Orangey (credited under various names) had a prolific career in film and television in the 1950s and early 1960s and was the only cat to win two PATSY Awards (Picture Animal Top Star of the Year, an animal actor's version of an Oscar), the first for the title role in ""Rhubarb"" (1951), a story about a cat who inherits a fortune, and the second for his portrayal of ""Cat"" in ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961). For this"
"not repeat his role in the 1961 film version of the show because at 30 years old he looked unbelievable as a teenager. The role went to former child actor Richard Beymer, whose vocals were dubbed by Jimmy Bryant. Kert was upset at being passed over for the role, because he had hoped that it would jump-start his film career. Kert's later career had only occasional high points. ""A Family Affair"" limped along for three months in early 1962. He was a member of the cast of the infamous ill-fated musical version of Truman Capote's novella, ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", which"
"[the] mainstream media's and policymakers' eyes, Asian Americans don't exist. They are not on their radar... and it's the same for politics."" I. Y. Yunioshi from Blake Edwards' 1961 American romantic-comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's is one such example which had been broadly criticized by mainstream publications. In 1961, ""The New York Times"" review said that ""Mickey Rooney's bucktoothed, myopic Japanese is broadly exotic."" In 1990, ""The Boston Globe"" criticized Rooney's portrayal as ""an irascible bucktoothed nerd and an offensive ethnic caricature"". Critics note that the character of Mr. Yunioshi reinforced anti-Japanese wartime propaganda to further exclude Japanese Americans from being"
"He eventually became a leading assistant director. He was an assistant director to Mark Robson on ""The Inn of the Sixth Happiness"" (1958), Terence Young on ""Serious Charge"" (1959) with Cliff Richard, Terry Bishop on ""Cover Girl Killer"" (1959), Guy Hamilton on ""A Touch of Larceny"" (1960), Jack Cardiff on ""Sons and Lovers"" (1960), Tony Richardson on ""The Entertainer"" (1960) and ""A Taste of Honey"" (1961), J. Lee Thompson on ""The Guns of Navarone"" (1961) and José Quintero on ""The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone"" (1961). ). Through the influence of Richardson, he directed Albee's ""An American Dream""and ""The Death"
"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"
"festive mood of the scene. Not only was this album successful when it was released in 1962, it remains popular today. The soundtrack was re-released in France in 2007, Greece in 2008, the Philippines in 2009, and in the United Kingdom in January 2011. In 2013, the actual soundtrack cues (including Audrey Hepburn's original version of ""Moon River"") were issued in a limited edition CD by Intrada Records. All music composed by Henry Mancini. 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"""
"of ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", but the role went to Audrey Hepburn as its producers feared that Monroe would complicate the production. The last film that Monroe completed was John Huston's ""The Misfits"", which Miller had written to provide her with a dramatic role. She played Roslyn, a recently divorced woman who becomes friends with three aging cowboys, played by Clark Gable, Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift. The filming in the Nevada desert between July and November 1960 was again difficult. The four-year marriage of Monroe and Miller was effectively over, and he began a new relationship with set photographer Inge"
"era, but his career would never again rise to such heights. Drafted into the Army during World War II, he served nearly two years entertaining over two million troops on stage and radio and was awarded a Bronze Star for performing in combat zones. Returning from the war in 1945, he was too old for juvenile roles but too short to be an adult movie star, and was unable to get as many starring roles. Nevertheless, Rooney's popularity was renewed with well-received supporting roles in films such as ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), ""Requiem for a Heavyweight"" (1962), ""It's a Mad,"
"Moon River ""Moon River"" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The song has been covered by many other artists. It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1962 (and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremony that year). He sang the first eight bars of the song at the"
"Kate Murtagh Kate Murtagh (October 29, 1920 – September 10, 2017) was an American actress, and a native of Los Angeles, California. She appeared in films including ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961),""The Night Strangler"" (1973), ""Dirty O'Neil"" (1974), ""Switchblade Sisters"" (1975), ""Farewell, My Lovely"" (1975), ""The Car"" (1977), ""Doctor Detroit"" (1983) and """" (1992). She has appeared on television in shows including ""Daniel Boone"", ""My Three Sons"", ""The Munsters"", ""I Dream of Jeannie"", ""The Twilight Zone"" and ""Highway to Heaven"". Murtagh is pictured on the front and back covers of the English rock band Supertramp's 1979 multi-platinum album, ""Breakfast in America""."
"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"
"1961 by the American entrepreneur Joseph E. Levine, who had it dubbed into English, christened ""The Fabulous World of Jules Verne,"" and released by Warner Bros. Pictures as part of a double feature for children paired with ""Bimbo the Great"". In this release, many of the cast and crew were billed with anglicized names; for example, Lubor Tokoš, Arnošt Navrátil, and Miloslav Holub were credited as Louis Tock, Ernest Navara, and Milo Holl, respectively. The American release also replaced the original introductory segment with one hosted by American television star Hugh Downs. Following the American release, the film won several"