A near-perfect movie (spoiled only by Mickey Rooney’s cringe-worthy turn as a buck-toothed Japanese photographer), Breakfast at Tiffany’s features a constellation of swell performances that swirl around its bright shining star: in would-be society girl Holly Golightly, Audrey Hepburn found and utterly made her own a character for the ages. At a cocktail party she hosts in her bare Manhattan walk-up, we meet some of the figures that are drawn into her orbit: her agent O.J. Berman (Martin Balsam), millionaire Rusty Trawler, wealthy Brazilian José da Silva Pereira, and starving writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard). Holly, usually clad in the movie’s signature black Givenchy dress, initially appears wearing a sheet in the scene — it is suggested that she was in her bath when the first guests arrive and threw on what was available.
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