Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and written by George Axelrod, 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.
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.
Plot[]
A young New York socialite (Audrey Hepburn) becomes interested in a young man (George Peppard) who has moved into her apartment building. He is with an older woman (Patricia Neal) who is very wealthy, but he wants to be a writer. She is working as an expensive escort and searching for a rich, older man to marry.
Cast[]
- Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly
- George Peppard as Paul Varjak
- Patricia Neal as Mrs. Emily Eustace "2E" Failenson
- Buddy Ebsen as Doc Golightly
- Martin Balsam as O.J. Berman
- José Luis de Vilallonga as José da Silva Pereira (mononymously as Vilallonga)
- John McGiver as Tiffany's salesman
- Dorothy Whitney as Mag Wildwood
- Stanley Adams as Rutherford "Rusty" Trawler
- Elvia Allman as the librarian
- Alan Reed as Sally Tomato
- Miss Beverly Hills as the stripper
- Claude Stroud as Sid Arbuck
- Orangey the cat (Frank Inn, trainer)
- Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi
Reception[]
Hepburn's portrayal of Holly Golightly as the naïve, eccentric café society girl is generally considered to be one of the actress's most memorable and identifiable roles. Hepburn regarded it as one of her most challenging roles, since she was an introvert 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.