37. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Audrey Hepburn’s look as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s has become a fashion icon, the very epitome of poise and elegance. Just about everyone has seen the image of her standing in the opening scene of the movie holding coffee and croissant in hand.
But it turns out this successful 1961 movie was also an adaption to a novella of the same name by Truman Capote. The eccentric heroine of the story is believed to have been based on several different women he had known, though he would later claim he imagined Holly to look exactly like Marilyn Monroe and wanted her to play the protagonist in the film.