Blake Edwards
3 titles · american classical
Blake Edwards's best-known film is Breakfast at Tiffany's, in which Holly Golightly, an eccentric New York playgirl, sets out to marry a Brazilian millionaire. He made sophisticated romantic comedy and slapstick side by side. The Great Race sends daredevils in early automobiles from New York to Paris. In Victor/Victoria, a struggling soprano finds work as a man who performs as a woman.
Signature
- Elegant comedy with a melancholy edge (Breakfast at Tiffany's).
- Large-scale slapstick and pratfalls (The Great Race).
- Gender and performance played for farce (Victor/Victoria).
- Music by Henry Mancini.
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