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Theatrical release poster Dire cted by B lake Edwards, Breakfast at Tiffany's (196 1 )  tells the story of Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve and carefree New York party girl who lives with a nameless cat and earns her money by visiting mobster Sally Tomato (Alan Reed) in prison every week. Tomato's la wyer pays her $100 a we ek to receive "the weather rep ort." One day, Holly meets Paul Varjak (George Peppard), a str ug gling writer who has just moved into her building . Pau l, whom Holly calls "Fred" due to his rese mblance to her brother, is "kept" by a wealthy older woman, Emily Eustace Failens on (Pa tricia Ne al), nic knamed "2E." At a party at Holly 's apartment, Paul meets her Hollywood agent, O. J. Berman (Martin Balsam), who desc ribes her trans f ormation from country girl into Manhattan socialite. In the da ys that follo w, Paul and Holly become closer , but their relationship gets strange whe...

The most attractive man who has ever lived, otherwise known as Gary Cooper , was born Frank James Cooper, in Helena, Montana on May 7, 1901. He was the youngest of two sons of English immigrants Alice (née Brazier), a homemaker, and Charles Henry Cooper, a prominent lawyer, rancher and eventually a Montana Supreme Court justice.   Wanting her sons to have an English education, Alice enrolled Frank and his brother Arthur in Dunstable Grammar School in Berdfordshire, their father's birthplace, where they where educated from 1910 to 1912. At Dunstable, Frank studied Latin and French, in addition to taking several courses in English history. While he readily accepted the school's «conservative political beliefs and code of dutiful self-sacrifice as well as it admirable emphasis on discipline, loyalty, patriotism, honor and pluck,» Frank never adjusted to its formal uniforms and constricted landscape.   I didn't like England, particularly, although I did admire the extraordi...