But Paramount insisted on giving the part to Audrey Hepburn, the waifish former model who was far more in the style of Jackie Kennedy, the country's new first lady, than the troubled Hollywood star. Copyright 2023 SurvivorNet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. None of the big stars of the late Fifties seemed right for their radically modern heroine, who earned her living as a call-girl. In September 2017, Tiffany & Co. bought the original 1961 working script (with deleted scenes and notes in Hepburn's handwriting) for 632,750 ($846,619) at Christie's auction house in London. When Doc mutters Holly is too skinny, he's actually expressing a popular opinion of Audrey Hepburn at the time. It wasnt hard for Edwards to realise what was going on. Although it's never explained why Holly is wearing a bed sheet at her cocktail party, an earlier scene (cut before release) established she'd been taking a bath and had to improvise a gown in the spur of moment. Express. Breakfast at Tiffany's [VHS] - Included among the American Film Institute's Top 100 Greatest Songs for "Moon River," in fourth position right after "Over the Rainbow", "As Time Goes By" and "Singin' in the Rain". The implication of the "true blue" friend, a blue cartoon dog and a cerulean body of water are the neatly packaged theme of the film. The film may undersell the irony and subtle sorrow of Truman Capotes source novella reading that, too, makes the film forever play differently but its between-the-lines balance of bitter to sweet, too, tastes different with age. scene, it takes Paul exactly 4 seconds from when he starts walking to when he reaches the door. Julie Andrews' Sound of Music co-star: 'Like flogging a dead horse', Breakfast at Tiffanys: Audrey Hepburn couldn't stand cold and pompous George Peppard, My Fair Lady: Julie Andrews' extraordinary Audrey Hepburn 'revenge', Elvis: Why he turned down the film that could have rebooted his career, Downton Abbey 2 A New Era release date, setting, cast, trailer WATCH, Sean Connery's daring request of Hitchcock 'Cary Grant wouldn't ask', John Waynes final movie was NOT The Shootist Duke was in Star Wars, Steve McQueen was mad on The Great Escape set: Wrote off six cars, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Why Steve McQueen turned it down, Paul Newman blasted Steve McQueen chicken s*** on Towering Inferno, The Train: The true story behind Burt Lancasters World War II epic.
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