A screening of Breakfast at Tiffany's is cancelled in Sacramento, California due to Mickey Rooney's controversial character, Mr. Yunioshi.

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FREE SCREENING  (7/11/08)  8:30 p.m.

Old Pasadena Film Festival

One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley, Pasadena

Outdoor courtyard screening, under the stars!

Where: The Dolphin Bay Resort & Spa, 2727 Shell Beach Rd., Shell Beach, CA 93449

When: Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Time: Lawn seating begins at 7:30 pm

Enjoy a night under the stars watching some of the best movies from across the decades.  Admission is free and concessions are available for a small price.  First showing: Breakfast at Tiffany's starting at 8pm on June 4th.  Dinner packages available as well. Dress warm and bring blankets!! No outside food, beverages or chairs will be permitted.  Call 805.773.4300 or go to www.thedolphinbay.com for more information.

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"That's right. I'm just CRAZY about Tiffany's!" --Holly 

"Poor old cat. Poor slob. Poor slob without a name. The way I look at it, I don't have the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up by the river one day." --Holly

"We're alike, me and cat. A couple of poor nameless slobs." --Holly

"I always thought it was a ridiculous name for a prison. Sing Sing, I mean. Sounds more like it should be an opera house or something." --Holly

"You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he give you... I must say, the mind reels!" --Holly

"I suppose you think I'm very brazen or très fou or something." --Holly

"He's all right, I suppose, if you like dark, handsome, rich-looking men with passionate natures and too many teeth." --Paul

"Mag Wildwood. She's a model, believe it or not, and a thumping bore." --Holly

"Timber!" --Holly

"She's a real phony. You know why? Because she honestly believes all this phony junk that she believes." --O.J. Berman

"You know what's going to happen to you? I'm going to march you over to the zoo and feed you to the Yak... just as soon as I finish this drink." --Mag Wildwood

"Son, I need a friend." --Doc Golightly

"You musn't give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they're strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky." --Holly

"I love you, Lula Mae." --Doc Golightly

"Let me tell you something, Mister. If I had her money, I'd be richer than she is." --Holly

"I'll tell you one thing, Fred, darling... I'd marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money?" --Holly

"It should take you exactly four seconds to cross from here to that door. I'll give you two." --Holly

"As Miss Golightly was saying before she was so rudely interrupted..." --Holly

"Well, I do believe love has found Andy Hardy." --2-E (Mrs. Failenson).

"Paul Varjak. Varjak, V A R J A K. I'm a writer, W R I T E R." --Paul

"Simply do not ask me what this is all about, parce que je ne sais pas, mes chers." --Holly

"There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion." --Holly

"Ahh... Do I detect a look of disapproval in your eye? Tough beans buddy, 'cause that's the way it's gonna be!" --Holly

"Here. I've been carrying this thing around for months. I don't want it anymore." --Paul

"You know what's wrong with you, Miss whoever-you-are? You're chicken. You've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, 'Okay. Life's a fact. People do fall in love. People do belong to each other.' Because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness. You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well Baby, you're already in that cage -- you built it yourself. And it's not bounded on the west by Tulip, Texas or on the east by Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself." --Paul

Tiffany's opened its doors on a Sunday for the first time since the 19th century so that filming could take place inside the store.

Author Truman Capote envisioned Marilyn Monroe in the part of Holly.

The song "Moon River" was written especially for Audrey Hepburn, since she had no training as a singer. The vocals were written to be sung in only one octave.

At a post-production meeting following a screening of the film, a studio executive, in reference to "Moon River," said, "Well, I think the first thing we can do is get rid of that stupid song." Audrey Hepburn stood up at the table and said, "Over my dead body!" The song stayed in the picture.

Audrey Hepburn's salary for the film was $750,000, making her the second highest paid actress (behind Elizabeth Taylor) per film.

Holly's "couch" is really an old-fashioned bathtub split in half; in some scenes, you can still see the gold handles at one end and the legs on the bottom.

Audrey felt that she was miscast as Holly Golightly in this film, although it was one of her most popular roles.

Although not visible on camera, hundreds of onlookers watched Hepburn's window-shopping scene at the start of the film. This made her nervous and she kept making mistakes. It wasn't until a crew member nearly got electrocuted behind the camera that she pulled herself together and finished the scene.

Audrey Hepburn hated Danish pastries, making filming the famous opening scene a bit of a chore for her.

Hepburn said the scene where she throws Cat into the rainy street was the most distasteful thing she ever had to do on film.

Holly's pad is much larger than the real-life brownstone used for exteriors.

Elements of Holly's character in the original novel; such as her flirtation with bisexuality -- were omitted to make the part more suitable for Audrey Hepburn.

The movie was shot only three months after the birth of Hepburn's first son, Sean H.Ferrer.

The story which Paul received the $50 check for is called "Roman Capade", a reference to Audrey Hepburn's first starring role, Roman Holiday (1953).

About 9 cats were used throughout the film as the role of "Cat".

Contrary to popular belief, the movie follows Capote's original novel quite closely. The character of Mag Wildwood, the Amazon-like model who crashes Holly's party in the film, is a major character in the novel. Capote describes her as having a stutter. In the film, Mag does indeed stutter though this isn't explained. During the shoplifting sequence, Holly briefly dons a Huckleberry Hound mask; a direct reference to a line in her song, "Moon River." Although Audrey's performance of "Moon River" is unsurpassed, it would not be officially released until after her death. Holly's "bad date" prior to her first visit to Paul's apartment is only heard behind a door. The man who provides this voice is uncredited, but he sounds a lot like Mel Blanc, who at the time was working with film co-star Alan Reed on "The Flintstones" (1960). (imdb.com)

Academy Awards ~

(Winners)

Best Music Oscar (Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture): Henry Mancini

Best Music Oscar (Song): Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer

(Nominations)

Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Color): Roland Anderson (Art), Hal Pereira (Art), Sam Comer (Set), Ray Moyer (Set)

Best Writing Nomination (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium): George Axelrod

Cast ~

Holly Golightly (Lulamae Barnes): Audrey Hepburn

Paul Varjak (Fred): George Peppard

2-E (Mrs. Louise Failenson): Patricia Neal

Doc Golightly: Buddy Ebsen

O. J. Berman: Martin Balsam

José da Silva Pereira: José Luis de Villalonga (as Vilallonga)

Tiffany's salesman: John McGiver

Sally Tomato: Alan Reed

Mag Wildwood: Dorothy Whitney

Rusty Trawler: Stanley Adams

Mr. Yunioshi: Mickey Rooney

Crew ~

Producing & Distributing Studio: Paramount Pictures

Producer: Martin Jurow, Richard Shepherd

Director: Blake Edwards

Screenwriter: George Axelrod
(based on the novella by Truman Capote)

Cinematographer: Franz Planer

Editor: Howard Smith

Composer: Henry Mancini

Costumes: Edith Head
(Miss Neal's gowns by Pauline Trigere)
(Miss Hepburn's gowns by Hubert de Givenchy)

Art Director: Roland Anderson, Hal Pereira

Set Decorator: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer

Hair Stylist: Nellie Manley

Makeup Artist: Wally Westmore