Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Everything Audrey Hepburn https://www.everythingaudrey.com Your #1 source for everything Audrey Hepburn Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:45:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.21 The Best Audrey Hepburn GIFs Collection to Make Your Heart Flutter https://www.everythingaudrey.com/best-audrey-hepburn-gifs/ https://www.everythingaudrey.com/best-audrey-hepburn-gifs/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2016 22:54:28 +0000 http://www.everythingaudrey.com/?p=5142 Below is our large collection of Audrey Hepburn GIFs. Feel free to save, pin, or whatever you feel. It took us a great deal of effort to collect all of these so hopefully you’ll enjoy them! Please be patient in letting the GIFs load. There quite a lot! Since GIF files are quite large, I […]

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Below is our large collection of Audrey Hepburn GIFs. Feel free to save, pin, or whatever you feel. It took us a great deal of effort to collect all of these so hopefully you’ll enjoy them!

Please be patient in letting the GIFs load. There quite a lot! Since GIF files are quite large, I will have to break them up into separate pages!

Here we go!

Audrey Oh Audrey

 

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The Many Faces of Audrey

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I Order You to be Supremely Happy <3

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An Unexpected Kiss – That Lucky Guy

 

 

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She really can’t be anything less than Gorgeous can she?

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Grownups can have fun too

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Proof that Audrey’s Look can Kill

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If I could find a real place like Tiffany’s then…

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Where’s Cat??

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S’wonderful! Funny Face

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THE Cutest Scene in Roman Holiday – Love!

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s Party!!

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Cello Lessons

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Cat Waking Up Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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“Would you marry me for my money?”

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*`* When Paul and Holly First Kiss *`*

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Funny Face Montage!!!

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Two for the Road Action

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Don’t Cry, there’s Always a Happy Ending

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A Goodnight Kiss… For David 🙂

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Run Audrey!
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First Kisses are the Best

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” Just look at the goodies she brought with her!”

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Poor Cat, poor slob without a name

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NEVER… mess with Audrey

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“I’m like cat here, we belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us.”

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“He Doesn’t even know I exist…”

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Audrey Hepburn <3

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She still has those earplugs in 😉

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Princess Anne Waving Goodbye

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Sabrina deeply pondering

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Sabrina in France during her transformation

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Bonjour Paris!

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Princess Anne Giving Us her Best Smile

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Now that’s a HAT!

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TIMBEEEERRRRR!!!

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Remember… Don’t Mess with Audrey

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“I Love You.”

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JoAnna Stockton getting impatient

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Definitely a Saucy Look

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How to Get Perfect Audrey Hepburn Eyebrows! https://www.everythingaudrey.com/audrey-hepburn-eyebrows/ https://www.everythingaudrey.com/audrey-hepburn-eyebrows/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:06:20 +0000 http://www.everythingaudrey.com/?p=3804 So you want perfect Audrey Hepburn eyebrows!? Well, you’re in the right place.  I am going to show you the different types of Audrey Hepburn eyebrows there were during Audrey’s career and then I’m going to explain the eyebrow technique & method behind each one. Now it’s important to note that Audrey Hepburn went through […]

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So you want perfect Audrey Hepburn eyebrows!? Well, you’re in the right place.  I am going to show you the different types of Audrey Hepburn eyebrows there were during Audrey’s career and then I’m going to explain the eyebrow technique & method behind each one.

Now it’s important to note that Audrey Hepburn went through about 3 to 4 different looks with her eyebrows. These different eyebrows which we will compare are from different movies such as Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

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See my Audrey Hepburn Makeup Tutorial  which explains all the eye makeup, eyebrows, and foundation techniques to perfectly achieve your Audrey Hepburn Inspired look.

Sabrina Eyebrows

We will start off with her most famous eyebrow look, which starts with a extremely bold brow that she showcases in the movie Sabrina (her second movie).

The 1950’s was an era that heavily showcased bold eyebrows. Audrey Hepburn at the time followed this trend, however, she further made this trend more popular among everybody, and became a very popular look.

When people refer to Audrey Hepburn eyebrows, it is the Sabrina eyebrows they are usually referring to.  If you have big eyes and dark hair, you can pull this look off.

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Why Do Her Eyebrows Look SOOO Good on her?

These very bold eyebrows look great on Audrey because her face is very small and her eyes are very large. Audrey Hepburn’s eyebrows perfectly frame and compliment her eyes. If she had smaller eyes, or a larger head, then this look would be very difficult to pull off.

There’s also another element playing in this – it deals with the concept of contrasting.  The dark bold eyebrow is typically associated with testosterone and men. Audrey has very feminine features, petite face, large eyes, small long neck that signal elegance, beauty, and gentleness and it’s paired / contrasted with a a bold eyebrow that perfectly frames in her large eyes.

Now, what’s happening subconsciously that make some guys attracted to this look is that they see all the qualities of an elegant, cute, petite woman with eyebrows that suggests that this woman has more testosterone in her which signals that this woman has an increase sexual libido which increases the chance of mating and thus increasing chances of making babies which is the main point to sex (if that wasn’t the point, there wouldn’t be a human race) and also the bonding of partners with the drug oxytocin the body makes during sex.

Now in the future, sadly there probably won’t be any sex. Everyone will have their libido castigated from birth and there will be no urge to stick things on places where you once stuck them before, you’ll be sterile – like a monsanto seed.  You look up and there is a floating triangle in the sky who you call mother and it gives birth to us and future generations inside of it’s biomechanical womb. Anyways… lol

Obviously, I’m not saying that women should just stop shaving and build giant muscles to show that they have more testosterone signals.  That’s it on a very primitive and primal level why certain things are attractive to certain people.  Anyway sorry I’ve gotten off topic! Back to Audrey Hepburn eyebrows!

Keys that create this Eyebrow:

Below is a great example of the blockiness of Audrey Hepburn’s eyebrow.  The right side picture shows how to pencil in the outline of the eyebrow.

  1. Bold – Extremely Bold and Dark.  This gives contrast to the face and frames the eyes.
  2. Blocky – Remember, that Audrey filled in her eyebrows to create a somewhat blocky, bold look.
  3. Angled – Notice the angle and the down point on the trailing end of the eyebrow.
  4. Have Big Eyes – Even if you don’t have big eyes, you can make them look bigger by using longer lashes and eyeshadow.
  5. Have Dark Hair – You could pair this with dark eyebrows and lighter hair but it typically looks best on dark hair.
  6. For your Convenience – Try and use an Audrey Hepburn eyebrow stencil: http://www.eyebrowz.com/audrey.htm

Audrey Hepburn Eyebrows

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Here’s a Good Example of GREAT Eyebrow Makeup Technique

Roman Holiday Eyebrows

Roman Holiday was Audrey Hepburn’s first movie that she starred in as the lead role.

From looking at her past photos, I believe that these eyebrows are her original eyebrows. Her past photos show the same size, shape, and darkness.

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Wait, Why Do These Eyebrows Look So Cute on her?

These eyebrows still have a slight boldness to them that compliment her eyes.  More importantly, this look works because Audrey’s face shape is very square and angular so having a round eyebrow really balances out her face.

Keys that create this Eyebrow:

  1. Different Shape – If you notice, the shape of these Audrey Hepburn eyebrows is totally different.  It’s virtually two arches, top and bottom of the eyebrow edges –  a simple enough difference. However, what i find most INTERESTING, is that the line that connects the two arches is a horizontal line.  Usually most eyebrows are connect with a vertical line or a slanted line.  I can’t remember ever seeing a horizontal line as the edge connecting the top and bottom edges of the eyebrow.
  2. Bold Eyebrow – These Roman Holiday Audrey Hepburn eyebrows are still filled in to create a bold look, HOWEVER, they are not as bold as her Sabrina eyebrows – they are more tailored. Focus on filling in with a lighter shade.  Don’t get too thin at the end of your eyebrows, there’s still some thickness at the point. Don’t make it a pencil point.
  3. Smooth, Graceful Curve- No Angled Point – Notice that the top does not have a point on it, and it is one graceful Curve.  Focus on creating an elegant arch for the eyebrow that doesn’t
  4. Use an eyebrow stencil: I don’t have a stencil made up for this but you could definately make one yourself by looking at her pictures, using thick card stock, and trial and error.  If you guys want a template of this, let me know in the comments below and I’ll see what I can do.

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Funny Face Eyebrows

Not everybody knows the movie, Funny Face, which is a shame because it’s probably within my top three favorite movies of Audrey Hepburn’s.

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How to Recreate this Funny Face Eyebrow Look:

There’s something interesting to note about her eyebrow look in this movie. There’s almost no bend or arch in the eyebrow!

  1. Recreate the eyebrow end to be more horizontal – The key to this look is the tail end of the eyebrow. Notice how the end of her eyebrow in the picture above that it almost goes straight across.  It has a very slight bend. Actually, in her play “Ondine” ( a year earlier) Audrey wears her eyebrows straight across.  It looks very strange I think, but somehow she pulls off the look.  She must have been going for an avant garde look with her weird hair style and eyebrows.
  2. Reshape – You might have to reshape the end of your eyebrow by plucking, or using concealer.
  3. Fill in with light shade – Pencil and fill in the eyebrow with a light shade.  This will be lighter than the Roman Holiday and Sabrina Eyebrows.
  4. Avoid penciled look – Avoid a penciled in look by not drawing a deep bold outline, try to use smudging to blur the edge.

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s Audrey Hepburn Eyebrows

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is Audrey Hepburn’s most famous film that is idolized by so many girls all over the world. With this said, her eyebrows don’t really play a significant role in the film. The movie was made in the early 60’s and the style of eyebrow back then had changed from bold to very light.  So as you can see in this movie and in the picture below, they are very light.

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How to Recreate this Breakfast at Tiffany’s Eyebrow Look:

They key to this look, is natural, sparse, and light eyebrows.  This match is best paired with other light things, like Audrey’s pink lipstick and makeup.

  1. Light – These eyebrows may have been dyed a different color.  I would not use a filler since that usually darkens the eyebrows (even if it’s a lighter color).
  2. Natural – You can really tell that her eyebrows have a more natural look because you can see the sporadic hairs at the edge of the eyebrow.  There is not a distinct line from an outline pencil.
  3. Matches Hair Color – You can notice that her eyebrows coordinates and matches her hair color
  4. Reshape – Look at the image above and other Holly Golightly images to get the idea of how the shape of her eyebrow is.

Celebrities who have Inspired Audrey Hepburn Eyebrows

Lily Collins

Lily Collins wears big, bold, beautiful eyebrows and absolutely rocks the hell out of them.  Out of all the celebrities, she wears the “bold brow look” the best, right next to Audrey.  She has said in past interviews that Audrey has definitely inspired her style.  Lily Collins, oh how we adore you.

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The Best 24 Breakfast at Tiffany’s Movie Scenes – Playlist https://www.everythingaudrey.com/breakfast-at-tiffanys-movie-scenes/ https://www.everythingaudrey.com/breakfast-at-tiffanys-movie-scenes/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2016 19:07:46 +0000 http://www.everythingaudrey.com/?p=3676 Here are THE BEST 24 Breakfast at Tiffany’s Movie Scenes EVER!  I have painstakingly cut and edited each one of these 24 Breakfast at Tiffany’s movie scenes ( clips, videos, etc.). VVV – The playlist button to access all the videos is in the TOP LEFT CORNER of the video player. All of them are […]

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Here are THE BEST 24 Breakfast at Tiffany’s Movie Scenes EVER!  I have painstakingly cut and edited each one of these 24 Breakfast at Tiffany’s movie scenes ( clips, videos, etc.).

VVV – The playlist button to access all the videos is in the TOP LEFT CORNER of the video player.

Animated GIFs Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany'sAll of them are in pristine HD 1080 P quality! I know that I don’t like low-quality videos, so I know you don’t either. This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and it’s not just because it has Audrey Hepburn in it. Also, on another note, I always find it interesting to find hidden facts about all sorts of movies. There are a lot of interesting Breakfast at Tiffany’s facts that you should look up if you have time.  I’ll try to write an article about them.

 

Animated GIFs Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany'sNow remember, this is not the entire movie, but it is all of the best parts of the movie from my standpoint. So come on in and relax! Join us in watching and celebrating this movie that has inspired and touched so many women and romantics alike.  If you haven’t watched this movie before, STOP! You need to go watch the full thing first! No, I SAID NO, PLEASE! You are ruining your experience! 🙂

 

Thanks and hopefully you enjoyed my Breakfast at Tiffany’s Movie Scenes Playlist!

Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany's Movie ScenesIt takes a lot of hard work. But it paid off, and I’m happy if you’re happy! :).  I have tried to make each video that I edit something special by adding a slow-motion scene at the end. I paired the slow-motion with some of my favorite piano music, mostly from Max Richter.  I think that it pairs extremely well together. It took a while to learn, and honestly it was pretty tough, because I had to learn a new program, Adobe After Effects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What are the Mean Reds in Breakfast at Tiffany’s? https://www.everythingaudrey.com/what-are-the-mean-reds/ https://www.everythingaudrey.com/what-are-the-mean-reds/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2015 05:08:25 +0000 http://www.everythingaudrey.com/?p=3110 What are the mean reds?   This term is one of the overarching themes of the movie.  The Mean Reds was first coined by Truman Capote, a novelist, written in his novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” which was later turned into a movie by paramount pictures and further popularized.  Audrey Hepburn and Greg Peppard star in the […]

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What are the mean reds?   This term is one of the overarching themes of the movie.  The Mean Reds was first coined by Truman Capote, a novelist, written in his novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” which was later turned into a movie by paramount pictures and further popularized.  Audrey Hepburn and Greg Peppard star in the film that has become such iconic today.

Movie catch phrases are one of those things that affect our language for sure and stay our habit and the way we make jokes or describe our emotions with something we heard. An epic movie from 1961 with adorable Audrey Hepburn brought what still is a jewel of culturology. First of all the movie brought a lot of interesting aspects of modern society, some taboo topics were out in the open and the feminine freedom, sexuality and mental state were revealed in one different way. Another thing this movie will stay remembered is the number of lines spoken in it and that are still used nowadays, more than half of the century after its release.

Below is the a clip of the movie where Holly and Fred talk about THE MEAN REDS.

At one point in movie Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) talks about her emotional state with Paul Varjak (George Peppard) mentioning the phrase “Mean Reds” for the first time in history.

Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?

Paul Varjak: The mean reds, you mean like the blues?

Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat and maybe it’s been raining too long, you’re just sad that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

Paul Varjak: Sure.

What is the MEAN REDS? Breakfast at Tiffany's

My Take on the Mean Reds

The last paragraph was a little vague, so I’ll try to explain it a little more in this paragraph and how I personally interpret it.  I believe that the Mean Reds are a number of different items mixed together, but to put it shortly it is a quiet, loud panic on the deepest level.  That seems paradoxical but when I hear the words “the mean reds” in my head and I close my eyes, I see two images:

The first image is a boat in a storm spinning in circles with no direction, lost at sea.  The second image I see is the world in a manic chaos but there is no sound. People mindlessly going from point A to B , worried about the littlest of things.  They are caught in a trance.  Inside the chaos, you are in a state of arrested development, a life stand still where everything is teetering on the edge and about to change.  Frustrated, you can taste the edge, you talk about all the things that the edge is about like going to Peru with Jose, having the perfect life, but the edge never comes.  As you sit in this standstill, you watch everyone else get on with their lives, wondering why you can’t get to where you want to be in life.  You run from one place to the next place and to the next place. That’s where you start to lose your identity such as when Holly runs from place to place and eventually she attaches her identity to Cat – “I’m like cat here, a couple of no name nobody’s” and where she screams to Fred “I don’t know who I am!”.  Holly has a deep inner conflict with herself about love, who she is, and where she wants to be in life. This can be seen by the type of men she dates and her intentions to marry for money in order to feel safe and secure.  She would gladly give up love to marry some one rich.  For Holly, Tiffany’s cured her mean reds.  However, this was a temporary fix. Tiffany’s is a symbol – an established, financially safe institution.  Tiffany’s is the status in life that Holly was aspiring for.  It was a place where she could pretend and make believe that everything was exactly how she wanted it to be.

One of the key parts of the mean reds is that you finally realize that the thing that your running away from is yourself.  You haven’t grown up to face the facts or to face your fears, to be decisive and terminate the inward conflict inside you once and for all so you can finally go in a direction.  In Paul’s last monologues at the end of the movie, he tells Holly point blank that she can’t “face the facts” and that she keeps running away herself.

Do you have the mean reds?

Mean Red Symptoms

  • You have a Paradox Belief, or A Deep Internal Conflict:  For Holly, it was her struggle of finding herself and accepting herself and allowing herself to love.
    • “Doesn’t want to be put in a cage but has put herself in a cage”
    • “Afraid of Love but wants to be in love”
    • “Marry for Love and be poor.  Marry for Riches and be Safe.”
    • “People who love me are all Rats”.
  • Identity Crisis: The core of you says that there is something wrong in your situation.   You’re not happy with your current state of Affairs.  Your inner person says you can be so much more.  You are living for other people’s wants and needs instead of living for yourself and what you want.
  • Indecisiveness:  You are a ship in a storm, spinning and you don’t know what direction to go.  The decisions you want to make, are future decisions and don’t ever come to you. You psychoanalyze every other decision out there, and no matter what decision you make, it seems like the grass is always greener on the other side and so it’s impossible to make a decision or at least feel good about making a decision.
  • Running away from yourself: You try to find everything and anything to make you happy.  The most things you search for will be unsatisying superficial relationships and items to fill the empty void in your life.  Then you realize that only have the power to change
  • Arrested Development:  Everyone else is moving on in life, you feel frustrated that everyone is light years ahead of you and have things so “figured out”.  You need a sense of arrival – a right to Passage.
  • Unrealistic Dreams and unwilling to compromise: These dreams make you feel even more frustrated because you’re not able to let them go.

Do you have the mean reds?!?!

What do you think of my interpretation of the Mean Reds? Did I nail it or did I totally screw it up?  Let me know below!

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The CUTEST Video Montage of Breakfast at Tiffany’s https://www.everythingaudrey.com/cutest-video-montage-breakfast-tiffanys/ https://www.everythingaudrey.com/cutest-video-montage-breakfast-tiffanys/#respond Tue, 20 Jan 2015 02:59:37 +0000 http://everythingaudrey.com/?p=2307 Above is my favorite video montage of Breakfast at Tiffany’s.  It comprised of several clips from the movie that are spliced so well together and set to music.  The song is an upbeat, romantic song that gives the old classic film a fresh feel! You’ll love it, I think you will agree.

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Above is my favorite video montage of Breakfast at Tiffany’s.  It comprised of several clips from the movie that are spliced so well together and set to music.  The song is an upbeat, romantic song that gives the old classic film a fresh feel! You’ll love it, I think you will agree.

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