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unusual facts about Blake Edwards


Black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn

In 1961, Givenchy designed a little black dress for the opening scene of Blake Edwards' romantic comedy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, where Hepburn plays a leading role alongside actor George Peppard.


Birdy Nam Nam

The group's name is taken from a line in the 1968 Peter Sellers film The Party, directed by Blake Edwards.

Francesco Scavullo

Scavullo also created shots for various movie posters, album covers and Broadway shows, including one for A Star is Born (featuring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson), a portrait of Julie Andrews for Blake Edwards' Victor Victoria.

I Remember Me

The interviews included movie director Blake Edwards, United States Olympic soccer gold medalist Michelle Akers, and a high school senior in Connecticut, bedridden for two years who is transported by ambulance to his high school graduation.

James Bartholet

Since then, he has worked for directors such as Blake Edwards, David Lynch and has appeared on many films, television programs, sitcoms and soap operas in the 1980s and 1990s.

Pease Porridge Hot

In the 1966 Blake Edwards World War II comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Major Pott (Harry Morgan) includes the last lines of the rhyme in his rantings after he is driven mad from getting lost in a maze of catacombs under the Sicilian village.

Violet Mersereau

The most acclaimed project of Mersereau's final period was Nero (1922), directed by J. Gordon Edwards, grandfather of Blake Edwards.


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Anthony Christian

In his earlier days Anthony earned his living as a portrait artist, painting among others Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Baroness Olympia de Rothschild, Baroness Fiona Thyssen-Bornemisza, Count Guido di Carpegna, Lord Lichfield, Blake Edwards, Julie Christie and Terence Stamp.

Have You Met Miss Jones?

And, John Ritter sang it (as a philandering author in a piano bar) in the Blake Edwards romantic comedy, "Skin Deep (1989 film)."