Breakfast At Tiffanys

Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard Original UK Premiere: 1961 Dvd Release: 5th June, 2006 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Collector's Edition, Full Screen, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Breakfast at Tiffanys is a novella by Truman Capote, published in 1958. The story documents the life of a young woman, Holly Golightly, who is trying to find her place in the world when she meets Fred. In 1961, Breakfast at Tiffanys was adapted as a film starring Audrey Hepburn & George Peppard & directed by Blake Edwards. The script, by George Axelrod, was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. The film follows some aspects of Capotes original story quite closely, though a number of changes had to be made to make the storyline acceptable to 1960s film audiences. For example, in the original, Holly is more explicitly described as being a prostitute, something that is treated more subtlely in the film. Capotes novel also included language that had to be toned down. According to Hollywood legend, Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly & possibly wrote the original story with her in mind. Another legend exists in regards to the difficulty in filming the films opening sequence, in which Holly gazes into a Tiffanys shop window. Posters Of Breakfast At Tiffanys

Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born actress. Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels she was the daughter of Joseph Anthony Ruston, a British banker & Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French & English kings. Her father appended the name Hepburn to his surname & Audrey became Audrey Hepburn-Ruston at the same time. She had two half-brothers, Alexander & Ian Quarles van Ufford, by her mothers first marriage to a Dutch nobleman. Hepburn attended private schools in England & the Netherlands, but after the 1935 divorce of her parents she was living with her mother at Arnhem when the German invasion & occupation of World War II occurred. At that time she adopted the pseudonym Edda Van Heemstra, modifying her mothers documents to do so, because an English-sounding name was considered dangerous. It was never her legal name.  . After the landing of the Allied Forces on D-Day, things grew worse under the German occupiers. Posters Of Audrey Hepburn

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George Peppard George Peppard was an American film & television actor. He starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffanys, although he is probaby more famous among younger viewers for his role as Col. John Hannibal Smith in the cult 1980s television show The A-Team, where hes the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squadron. Peppard was born in Detroit, Michigan, as the son of an opera singer & a building contractor. He graduated from Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan. He attended Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University & The Actors Studio, where one of his classmates was Rip Torn. Before the A-Team, Peppard had the leading role in the TV series Banacek & played in Doctors Hospital, in 1975 & in several other television films, which became in the later part of his career his major dedication. Married 5 times & the father of three children, Peppards second wife was actress Elizabeth Ashley, his co-star in The Carpetbaggers. The A-Team star was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1992 & had part of a lung removed. Posters Of George Peppard

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