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Breakfast at Tiffany's: Directed by Blake Edwards. With Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen. A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.
- (193K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Blake Edwards
- 1961-10-06
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 while attempting to marry for money.
Mar 18, 2020 · The choice of casting rested on the shoulders of producers Martin Jurow and Richard Shepherd. Both Jurow and Shepherd knew the role of Holly Golightly was not going to be an easy one to cast. Hepburn's good girl image was maintained on and off-screen, including this behind-the-scenes Green Mansions (1959) shot | IMDb / MGM
View full company info for Jurow-Shepherd. 1. Breakfast at Tiffany's. 1961 1h 55m Approved. 7.6 (190K) Rate. 77 Metascore. A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way. Votes 190,468.
It was based on an original script by Jack Sher and his cousin Louis Kamp's wife, Irene Kamp, who had worked on Paris Blues together; they sold it to Martin Jurow and Richard Shepherd, the producers of Breakfast at Tiffany's, who had a deal at Paramount.
Martin Jurow (December 14, 1911 - February 12, 2004) was a Hollywood agent, executive assistant and film producer. After graduating from the College of William and Mary, he received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1936 and joined a law firm in New York with show business clients.
After Capote sold the rights to Paramount, Richard Shepherd and Martin Jurow were brought in as the producers and screenwriter George Axelrod was hired to adapt Capote's novella for the screen. Even though Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly Golightly, Paramount had other plans.
