BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961) C

Sandy and I finally saw the "classic movie" Breakfast At Tiffany's through NETFLIX Streaming.  (That means no DVD was necessary).  

Sandy thought Audrey Hepburn was "cute".  I thought that this movie was made as a showcase for her "so called" talents as an actress.  In this movie (original book by Truman Capote) she played the part  of an early 1960's call girl in New York  that was married at 14 years old, in rural Texas,  to a older guy with a bunch of children.  After a lot of housework she takes off to New York.  That is not The Audrey Hepburn that speaks with a Broadway British accent that we see in the movie.

But the producers solve this problem.  Her Hollywood agent (since when do NY call girls need Hollywood agents), has previously sent her to elocution school and she is transformed to the sweet talking Audrey we know and love.

The plot revolves around the theme of boy meets girl, boy looses girl, boy gets girl.  In one of the scenes she attempts to act as if she is drunk.  It was a disaster.  Also a disaster was the part played by Mickey Rooney.  He acted as an ornery Japanese man.  They shoved bunch teeth in his mouth, slanted his eyes and gave him a Japanese accent.  Shades of WW II stereotypes of "evil JAPS".  Very racist, even for the early 60's

This was . . . what I thought was a remarkable introduction to the movie in Rotten Tomatoes;

In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a commitment to a relationship. Maintaining a childlike innocence yet wearing the most perfect of designer clothes and accessories from Givenchy, she spends her time on expensive dates and at high-classparties. She escorts various wealthy men, yet fails to return their affections after they have given her gifts and money. Holly's carefree independence is changed when she meets her neighbor, aspiring writer Paul (George Peppard), who is suffering from writer's block while being kept by a wealthy woman (Patricia Neal). Just when Holly and Paul are developing their sweet romance, Doc (Buddy Ebsen) appears on the scene and complicates matters, revealing the truth about Holly's past. Breakfast at Tiffany's was nominated for several Academy awards, winning Best Score for Henry Mancini and Best Song for Johnny Mercer's classic tune "Moon River".