BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961) C widescreen 115m dir: Blake Edwards

w/Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney, Jose-Luis de Vilallonga, John McGiver, Dorothy Whitney, Stanley Adams

From The Movie Guide: "[Truman] Capote's novella comes to glorious if slightly sentimentalized onscreen life with Hepburn gamboling through the film as the fey, ever-charming Holly Golightly. Peppard, never again quite so appealing, is Paul, the upstairs neighbor both intrigued and puzzled by Holly's erratic behavior: throwing all-night bashes for dozens of friends one moment, a lonely neurotic the next. ...

"The film is well cast, with the exception of Rooney as a Japanese neighbor -- a racist grotesque --- driven to frenzy by Holly's noisy soirees. Balsam, as Holly's agent, offers a significant insight into his client's personality midway through the film when he notes; 'She's a phony, all right, but a real phony.' Amusingly helmed by director Edwards, romantic to the nth degree, and likely to disappoint only those devoted to Capote's novel, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S is one of the great New York films, swathing the city in layers of dewy love and glossy chic."

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S won two Oscars: Best Score (Mancini) and Song ("Moon River," Mancini and Johnny Mercer). It was also nominated for Best Actress (Hepburn), Adapted Screenplay (George Axelrod), and Art Direction (Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer).