Blake Edwards

Scriptwriter + Producer + Actor

Male

Born Jul 26, 1922

Hometown Tulsa, Oklahoma

Died Dec 15, 2010

Death Place California

Political Party Democrat (United ...

Nationality American

Other Names William Blake Crump

Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures. He used his writing skills to begin producing and directing, with… Read More

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Julie Andrews
Married 1969 - 2010
Patricia Walker

Married 1953 - 1967

Family

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Blake Edwards

d.2010

children

Jennifer Edwards
Daughter, Age 56

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Rex Reed: Breakfast At Tiffany's: A Dog's Dinner
Huffington Post - Mar 29, 2013

Quit stalling around and let's cut to the chase. No Audrey Hepburn, no Holly Golightly. The proof lies there on the stage of the Cort Theatre, choking on flat, leftover, room-temperature champagne from an old party that goes down like cough syrup, in a misguided and charmless attempt to resuscitate Truman Capote's magical 1958 literary sensation Breakfast at Tiffany's that fails on every level. How many ways can you spell d-i-s-a-s-t-e-r ? Poor Truman. His bubbly little allegory...
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Regina Weinreich: Debbie Harry Hosts A Party For Breakfast At Tiffany's: Thanks For The Memories
Huffington Post - Mar 21, 2013

Truman Capote's glory days as a celebrated writer were revisited at the opening of Richard Greenberg's Breakfast at Tiffany's on Wednesday night at the Cort Theater, and a black and white ball -- eh, bash -- at the Edison Ballroom. The play starts with a narrator called Fred reminiscing about a New York brownstone where he once lived, and a particularly spectacular neighbor, Holly Golightly with whom he partied and took baths. The tall and lanky, handsome "Fred" (Cory Michael Smith)...
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Huffington Post - Nov 01, 2012

What's going on? Why have even more TV shows been pouring onto DVD and BluRay lately? And not just full season offerings but elaborate boxed sets of entire runs of shows? A couple things. DVD sales are slowing but the one area of strength is TV shows; people may not bother to purchase every movie that comes out on DVD anymore, but they see a lot of value in buying an entire season of a show they like. So if that's where the money is, that's where studios will focus their energy. Plu...
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Congo: M23 Rebels Aim For Ugandan Border Town
Fox News - Oct 06, 2012

Congo's new M23 rebel group have opened a new front north of their current stronghold in the country's eastern city of Rutshuru in order to protect the local population, said a rebel spokesman. The group of about 1,000 fighters created after several officers from the Congolese army defected in April and May, has been fighting the Congo army south of its base in Rutshuru for two months. It is now spreading its control toward Lake Edward. The rebels took the small town of Nyamil...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1922 Birth Born on July 26, 1922.

1925 2 Years Old Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His grandfather was J. Gordon Edwards, a director of silent movies, and his stepfather, Jack McEdwards, became a film production manager after moving his family to Los Angeles in 1925. … Read More

THIRTIES

1953 30 Years Old Edwards, the step-grandson of prolific silent-film director J. Gordon Edwards, married his first wife, actress Patricia Walker, in 1953; they divorced in 1967. … Read More

1954 31 Years Old In the 1954-1955 television season, Edwards joined with Richard Quine to create Mickey Rooney's first television series, The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan, a sitcom about a young studio page trying to become a serious actor. … Read More

1959 36 Years Old Edwards also created, wrote and directed the 1959 TV series Peter Gunn, with music by Henry Mancini. … Read More

1961 38 Years Old Andrew Sarris called it the "directorial surprise of 1961," and it became a "romantic touchstone" for college students in the early 1960s. … Read More

FORTIES

1969 46 Years Old Edwards' second marriage from 1969 until his death was to Julie Andrews. … Read More

1971 48 Years Old But others recognized him more for his significant achievements at different periods of his career. British film critic Peter Lloyd, for example, described Edwards, in 1971, as "the finest director working in the American commercial cinema at the present time."

FIFTIES

1974 51 Years Old Edwards' biographers, William Luhr and Peter Lehman, in an interview in 1974, called him "the finest American director working at this time." … Read More

1980 57 Years Old Five of the those involved Edwards and Sellers in original material, while Trail of the Pink Panther, made after Sellers died in 1980, was made up of unused material from The Pink Panther Strikes Again. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1995 72 Years Old In 1995, he wrote the book for the stage musical adaptation of Victor/Victoria, also starring Andrews. … Read More

2004 81 Years Old 1 More Event

In 2004, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his writing, directing and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen.

2010 88 Years Old On December 15, 2010, Edwards died of complications of pneumonia at the Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. … Read More

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