Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) on Netflix
NR19611h 55mComedyDramaRomance
Holly Golightly, a Manhattan party girl, is paid to visit the imprisoned mobster Sally Tomato and bring his weather report to his lawyer. Writer Paul Varjak moves into her building.
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Plot summary
Holly Golightly lives in a Manhattan walk-up and makes a weekly visit to Sally Tomato, a mobster in Sing Sing; his lawyer pays her, and she brings back the weather report Tomato gives her as proof of the visit. She is saving the money to support her brother Fred once he finishes his Army service. Paul Varjak moves into her building, a writer with nothing published in five years who is kept by a wealthy married woman he calls 2E. Holly says Paul reminds her of Fred, and she tells him she plans to marry the wealthy Rusty Trawler for his money. Her agent Berman describes how she went from a country girl to a Manhattan socialite.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
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- Truman Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly Golightly, but Monroe declined and opted for The Misfits after theater director Lee Strasberg advised her that playing a "lady of the evening" would be bad for her image.
- Paramount initially hid Mickey Rooney's casting as Mr. Yunioshi, instead promoting a fictional Japanese comedian named "Ohayo Arigatou" (literally "good morning, thank you") and issuing press releases with fake quotes written in broken English attributed to him.
- Truman Capote was furious when Audrey Hepburn was cast instead of his preferred choice, saying, "Paramount double-crossed me in every way and cast Audrey."
- The 1993 biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story uses Breakfast at Tiffany's as an illustration of Hollywood's racist depiction of East Asians, claiming that Lee and his future wife, Linda Lee Cadwell, walked out of a screening of the film on seeing Rooney's performance.
- Steve McQueen was offered the role of Paul Varjak but declined because he was under contract with United Artists; Jack Lemmon was also approached but was unavailable, and Robert Wagner was considered as well.
- One of three dresses designed by Givenchy for Hepburn to use in the film sold at auction by Christie's on December 5, 2006, for £467,200, about seven times the reserve price.
- Original director John Frankenheimer spent three months developing the film before he was dropped in favor of Blake Edwards after Audrey Hepburn's agent pushed for a bigger-name director.
