...Melissa Phruksachart This article studies Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, US, 1961) to examine the constitutive role Mickey Rooney’s yellowface performance of Mr. Yunioshi plays in shoring up the infamous brand of white femininity embodied by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly...

...Lynn Spigel Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Editorial I watched Sabrina on TV and William Holden and Audrey Hepburn looked so old. It seemed so old fashioned talking about Long Island...

... or faces. Dick Hebdige, in characterizing a moment of punk aesthetics, also describes the New Wave fashion poseurs in Liquid Sky. By way of contrast, remember how ugly duckling Audrey Hepburn is discovered by fashion photographer Fred Astaire in Funny Face (1957). He falls...

... disheartened with our trophies and gadgets and more in tune with seeking our own individual voices. One day, full of discontent, I thought, What would a Diva do? and my journey began. I began to seek out evidence of divas. Whenever I felt powerless or helpless, I would imagine what Audrey Hepburn...

... with that archetypal scenario of transformative femininity: the Cinderella story.8 Yet unlike other female stars with similar characterological dynamics — Audrey Hepburn, say — the Andrews persona is notable for its dual invest- Julie Andrews Made Me Gay  •  147 ment...

.... This production finally morphed into George Cukor’s 1964 Hollywood film of the same title, starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. All ver- sions feature a clash of wills between Eliza and Higgins, and detail the indignities she suffers in the course of her transformation from working-class vulgarity...