Breakfast at Tiffany's

Introduction and comments following Breakfast At Tiffany's, 1961, with TCM's Dave Karger and guest Chris Isaak.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961.

First proper scene for Audrey Hepburn as Manhattan party girl Holly Golightly, the nature of her work less explicit here than in the Truman Capote novella, Claude Stroud the “John,” and Mickey Rooney as the stereotyped Asian landlord, a role he later disavowed, in Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961.

Paid party-girl Holly (Audrey Hepburn) has just seen the older-woman “decorator” for new neighbor Paul (George Peppard) leave a cash tip, as she flees her own unruly customer via the fire escape, thoughts from the original Truman Capote novella emerging, in Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961.

Martin Balsam is O.J., stand-in host and, we soon learn, the show-business agent for paid Manhattan party-girl Holly (Audrey Hepburn), who has yet to appear for her own event, as her new neighbor, writer Paul (George Peppard), whom she calls Fred, arrives, in Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961.

Opening credit sequence with Henry Mancini's music, with Audrey Hepburn not incidentally executing the act described in the title, from Blake Edwards' 1961 hit Breakfast At Tiffany's, also starring George Peppard, from the Truman Capote novella.

Truly Audrey Hepburn (as "Holly Golightly") singing, the Oscar-winning tune written by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer to suit her voice, "Moon River," serenading her writer neighbor and maybe-boyfriend Paul (George Peppard) in Blake Edwards' Breakfast At Tiffany's, 1961.

We’ve just met George Peppard, so we don’t know why he’s visiting blind-folded and ear-plugged Holly (Audrey Hepburn), whom we’ve surmised is something like a paid socialite, at her Manhattan apartment, early in Blake Edwards’ Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961.

Extended pantomime at the "Five and Ten" as Holly (Audrey Hepburn) and Paul (George Peppard) enjoy their Manhattan "shopping" spree, with Henry Mancini music, in Breakfast At Tiffany's, 1961.

Audrey Hepburn is Truman Capote's Holly Golightly, the New York sophisticate who spends Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).