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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) — Holly, Moon River, and the Cat With No Name

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) — Holly, Moon River, and the Cat With No Name20 juil.57 min

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Marty Jencius and Cindy Rotz check into the most famous brownstone in movie history. Blake Edwards' 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's novella gave us Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy, Henry Mancini's "Moon River," and a heroine who insists nobody belongs to anybody. We talk about the girl Capote actually wrote, the ending Hollywood grafted on, the Mickey Rooney performance nobody can defend, and why a movie this charming keeps making us uneasy. THE FILM• Directed by Blake Edwards; screenplay by George Axelrod from Capote's 1958 novella• Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney• Music by Henry Mancini, "Moon River" lyrics by Johnny Mercer; cinematography by Franz Planer• 114 minutes, color, Paramount, released October 5, 1961• $2.5 million budget, $14 million box office; five Oscar nominations, two wins• Added to the National Film Registry in 2012 TRIVIA WE GET INTO• Capote wrote Holly for Marilyn Monroe and never forgave Paramount. Lee Strasberg warned Monroe the part would damage her image; she made The Misfits instead• The role passed to Shirley MacLaine, then Kim Novak, before Hepburn — an introvert cast as an extrovert, and she called it one of her hardest jobs• Hepburn was paid $750,000, making her the highest-paid actress per picture at the time• Steve McQueen was offered Paul Varjak but was locked into Wanted: Dead or Alive• John Frankenheimer was attached to the Monroe version; getting paid off sent him straight to The Manchurian Candidate• Filming began October 2, 1960, on Fifth Avenue. Tiffany's opened on a Sunday for the first time since the 1800s so the crew could shoot inside• Hepburn disliked Danish pastries, which made the most famous breakfast in movies a chore• Roughly nine cats played Cat, chosen from three hundred at an open call• Holly's couch is an antique bathtub sawn in half — the fixtures and feet are visible in several shots• The crew opened around 200 boxes of Cracker Jack looking for a ring; that season's prize was a whistle• Mancini built the "Moon River" melody inside one octave because Hepburn had no vocal training. A Paramount executive wanted it cut after a preview and she shut him down• Mercer first wrote "Blue River," which is why "my huckleberry fr