Poster of Breakfast at Tiffany’s directed by Blake Edwards, 1961 - from our story '‘Audrey Hepburn not Tawdry Hepburn’ – Breakfast at Tiffany’s Ephemera'

Robert McGinnis designed the poster: “They sent me a few movie stills to work with... The stills weren't really any good, so I had to take a few leaps of my own. I was shooting pictures of a model for a book cover I was doing, and had her pose with the little orange cat I had back in those days. I put the cat on her shoulder, but the cat wouldn't stay, so she had to put her right arm up to hold it there. That was an accident. I didn't tell the model to put her hand there. It was just the only way she could keep the cat in place. That right there was the missing piece, and it was the only variation from the many movie stills they gave me.”

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