![]() ![]() The Oscar-nominated screenplay was written by George Axelrod, loosely based on the novella by Truman Capote. Stanley Adams as Rutherford "Rusty" Trawler.José Luis de Vilallonga as José da Silva Pereira (mononymously as Vilallonga).Finally, Holly finds Cat sheltering in an alley and, with him tucked into her coat, she and Paul embrace. Holly goes through a decision-making moment, puts on the ring and runs after Paul, who has gone looking for Cat. Just after they get underway again, Paul storms out of the cab, tossing the engraved ring into her lap and telling her to examine her life. ![]() Holly insists that she will go to Brazil anyway she asks the cab to pull over and pushes Cat out into the pouring rain. Paul is waiting for her in a cab, bringing her pet, "Cat", and a letter from José explaining that he must end their relationship due to her arrest. However, the pair are arrested in connection with Sally Tomato's drug ring, and Holly spends the night in jail. Months later, she invites Paul to dinner, as she is leaving the next morning for Brazil to continue her relationship with José. ![]() Holly now schemes to marry José for his money, but after receiving a telegram notifying her of her brother's death in a jeep accident, she trashes her apartment. She calmly accepts, having earlier concluded that he was in love with someone. After spending the night together, Paul awakens to find Holly gone. At Tiffany's, he has the ring from Doc Golightly's box of Cracker Jack engraved as a present for her. Holly and Paul agree to spend the day together, taking turns doing things each has never done before. On the way to tell Holly, he sees a newspaper headline stating that Trawler has married someone else. A few days later, Paul learns that one of his short stories will be published. At the Greyhound bus station, she tells Doc she will not return with him, and he leaves broken-hearted.Īfter drinking at a club, Paul and Holly return to her apartment, where she drunkenly tells him that she plans to marry Trawler for his money. After Paul reunites Holly and Doc, she informs Paul that the marriage was annulled. Now he wants to take her back to rural Texas. Paul tells her he will investigate and eventually confronts Holly's husband, Doc Golightly, who explains that Holly's real name is Lula Mae Barnes and that they were married when she was approaching 14. Some time later, 2E enters Paul's apartment, worried she is being followed. There, he meets her Hollywood agent, who describes Holly's transformation from a country girl into a Manhattan socialite, along with wealthy Brazilian politician José da Silva Pereira, and Rusty Trawler, the "ninth richest man in America under 50". Holly later buys Paul a typewriter ribbon to apologize and invites him to a wild party at her apartment. When Paul questions her about this, Holly chides him for prying. The pair fall asleep but are awakened when Holly has a nightmare about her brother. Holly, in turn, explains she is trying to save money to support her brother Fred after he completes his Army service. Visiting Paul afterward, she learns he is a writer who has not had anything published since a book of vignettes five years before. That night, when Holly goes out onto the fire escape to elude an over-eager date, she peeks into Paul's apartment and sees 2E leaving money and kissing him goodbye. Tomato's lawyer pays her $100 a week to deliver "the weather report".Īs she is leaving, Holly is introduced to Paul's "decorator", wealthy older woman Emily Eustace Failenson, whom Paul nicknames "2E". The pair chat as she dresses to leave for her weekly visit to mobster Sally Tomato, who is currently incarcerated at Sing Sing. Later, she is awakened by new neighbor Paul Varjak, who rings her doorbell to get into the building. Once inside, Holly cannot find her keys, so she buzzes her landlord, Mr. After looking into the store's window displays, she strolls to her apartment and has to fend off her date from the night before. flagship store and from it emerges elegantly dressed Holly Golightly, carrying a paper bag containing her breakfast. Nominated for five Academy Awards (winning two), with the music (including " Moon River") nominated for six Grammy Awards (winning five), the film was selected in 2012 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".Įarly one morning, a taxi pulls up in front of the Tiffany & Co. It was theatrically released by Paramount Pictures on October 5, 1961, to critical and commercial success. Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, written by George Axelrod, adapted from Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name, and starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer. ![]()
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