Breakfast at Tiffany's

Director: Blake Edwards Blake Edwards

Overview

Country girl Holly Golightly becomes a sophisticated professional escort in New York and ends up falling in love with a handsome aspiring writer in this bittersweet and funny romance that is based on a short novel by Truman Capote. Though very much in love, the couple experiences much turmoil for there is more and less to Holly than meets the eye. Outstanding Henry Mancini music is the film's major highlight.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/24/2017
UPC:	0032429256454
Original Release:	1961
Rating:	NR
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:54:00
Sales rank:	13,211

Special Features

Closed Caption; Commentary by producer Richard Shepherd

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Audrey Hepburn	Holly Golightly
George Peppard	Paul Varjak
Patricia Neal	2E Failenson
Buddy Ebsen	Doc Golightly
Martin Balsam	O.J. Berman
José Luis de Villalonga	José da Silva Pereira
John McGiver	Tiffany's Salesman
Dorothy Whitney	Mag Wildwood
Stanley Adams	Rusty Trawler
Elvia Allman	Librarian
Alan Reed	Sally Tomato
Beverly Powers	Nightclub Stripper
Claude Stroud	Sid Arbuck
Mickey Rooney	Mr. Yunioshi
Don Anderson	Bartender
Al Avalon	Spieler at Stripjoint
Janet Banzet	Woman
Mel Blanc	Holly's Drunk Visitor
Henry Barnard	Party Guest
Henry Beckman	Narcotics Detective Cronberger
Arthur Berkeley	Inmate
Nicky Blair	Party Guest
Willie Bloom	Inmate
Sue Casey	Party Guest in Blue and Green Dress
Roydon E. Clark	Party Guest
Marian Collier	Party Guest
Dick Crockett	Cab Driver
Tom Curtis	Party Guest
James Field	Party Guest
George Fields	Harmonica Player
Joseph J. Greene	Mr. O'Shaunessy
Sam Harris	Jewelry Shop Clerk
Pete Kellett	Guard
Barbara Kelley	Party Guest
Joan Staley	Girl in Low-Cut Dress
Kip King	Delivery Boy
Frank Kreig	Party Guest
Gil Lamb	Party Guest with Harriet
Hanna Landy	Party Guest
James Lanphier	The Cousin
Mary LeBow	Party Guest
Paul Lees	Floorwalker
Mel Leonard	Cab Driver
Leota Lorraine	Party Guest
Mike Mahoney	Police Desk Sergeant
Frank Marth	Party Guest
Fay Shannon	Party Guest Laughing in Mirror
William Meader	Jewelry Shop Clerk
Joyce Meadows	Party Guest Shaking Derrier in White Dress
Harold Miller	Tiffanys Customer
Hollis Morrison	Party Guest
Kate Murtah	Policewoman
Bill Neff	Party Guest
Chuck Niles	Sing Sing Prison Guard
Peggy Patten	Party Guest,Party Guest
John Perri	Party Guest
Tony Regan	Party Guest
Charles Sherlock	Reporter at Policed HQ
Helen Spring	Party Guest with Hat on Fire
Richard Wyler	Party Guest
Nino Tempo	Customer
Towyna Thomas	Party Guest
Glenn Vernon	Reporter
Wilson Wood	Party Guest with Cat on Shoulder
Michael Zaslow	Party Guest
Henry Mancini	Composer

Technical Credits

George Axelrod

John Fulton	Special Effects
Hugo Grenzbach	Sound/Sound Designer
John Wilkinson	Sound/Sound Designer
Blake Edwards	Director
George Axelrod	Screenwriter
Richard Shepherd	Producer
Martin Jurow	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Blake Edwards may have directed Breakfast at Tiffany's, and screenwriter George Axelrod certainly did a splendid job of adjusting Truman Capote's novel for the screen, but from the first moment Audrey Hepburn steps out of a cab with her coffee and danish and window shops at Tiffany's after a night on the town, this is her movie, and it's all but impossible to imagine another actress in the role. Beyond her tremendous charm and buoyant comic timing, Hepburn manages to make Holly Golightly at once resilient and fragile, a woman who knows her way around Manhattan but still hasn't figured out how not to be hurt by the world around her -- it would have been easy to make Holly seem flighty and annoying, but in Hepburn's capable hands she's an adorable, jaded innocent whose hipster façade and oft-stated desire to marry a wealthy man never quite disguises her need to be loved and to belong. As Paul Varjak, Holly's neighbor, friend, confidante, and eventual boyfriend, George Peppard is almost a bit too strong and solid -- he seems a mite stiff much of the time -- but he plays well off of Hepburn, and knows enough to stay out of her way; elsewhere, Patricia Neal is spot on as Paul's cheerfully cynical "sponsor," and Buddy Ebsen is superb in a brief turn as the former husband of the former Lula Mae Barnes (and could anyone blame him for wanting her back?). The film's only obvious casting mistake is Mickey Rooney, whose buck-toothed and over-the-top shtick as Mr. Yunioshi might be a shade less offensive if he were the least bit funny. However, between Edwards' frothy pacing, Franz F. Planer's lovely location camerawork, and Henry Mancini's memorable score, Breakfast at Tiffany's is a thoroughly charming and witty valentine to one special woman and the city she loves that still enchants more than 40 years after it first hit the screen.