50th anniversary of Breakfast at Tiffany's

some interesting facts about 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'...

Christie's Auction House sold Audrey Hepburn's black Italian satin gown and designed by Hubert de Givenchy in 2006 for $923,187.

Hepburn had given birth to son Sean just three months before shooting the film. As a hobby, the new mom took up knitting.

Hepburn caught a cold after spending four days in studio-made rain shooting the final sequence.

'Breakfast at Tiffany's' novella authorTruman Capote envisioned his friend Marilyn Monroe in the part, but her acting coach, Paula Strasberg, talked her out of it, saying the role's call-girl-like nature was bad for her image.

Very little of the film was actually shot in Manhattan. There were only about 8 days of location shooting, including inside Tiffany's, which opened on a Sunday for the first time in decades to allow filming.