Trivia
- In 1995, the Texas band Deep Blue Something had a hit with a song called "Breakfast at Tiffany's." The song is about a crumbling relationship between two people with nothing in common except that they "both kinda liked" the film Breakfast at Tiffany's. The song reached the top five in the United States and number one in the United Kingdom.
- In 1966, David Merrick produced a Broadway musical of the same name. The troubled production closed after four previews.
- The band Jets to Brazil takes their name from the poster seen in Holly's apartment.
- The Japanese toy company Jun Planning produced a doll based on Holly Golightly, for the March 2006 Pullip doll.
- The Gossip Girl series often mentions Hepburn and the film.
- In the original novella Mag Wildwood, a model with a stuttering problem, moves into Holly's apartment after Holly falls out with the novelist upstairs. The true nature of the relationship is not detailed in the book although both characters are described as heterosexual and both engage in subsequent heterosexual relationships later in the story. Wildwood still appears briefly in the film, a guest at a party at Holly's, with her stutter intact.
- In a letter to his aunt, Mary Ida Faulk Carter, Truman Capote wrote that Marilyn Monroe would play Holly Golightly in the film version of his tale, a role that producers instead gave to Audrey Hepburn. Referencing a quote by Capote: "Marilyn was always my first choice to play the girl, Holly Golightly." Screenwriter Axelrod was hired to "tailor the screenplay for Monroe". When Audrey was cast instead of Marilyn, Capote remarked: "Paramount double-crossed me in every way and cast Audrey."
- Steve McQueen was offered the role of Paul Varjak but was unable to appear due to his Wanted: Dead or Alive contract.
- Even though Holly is studying Portuguese for her use in Brazil, the tape is the Portuguese of Portugal, not Brazilian Portuguese.
- George Peppard was a student of method acting, a style Hepburn found difficult to work with. Nonetheless, the two actors remained close friends until her death.
- One of three dresses designed by Givenchy for Audrey Hepburn, for possible use in the movie sold at auction by Christie's on December 5, 2006 for US$800,000. About seven times the reserve price.
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