Moon River Moon River "Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's", winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The song has been covered by many other artists. It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1962 (and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremony that year). He sang the first eight bars of the song at the
Audrey Hepburn Mob". In 1953 she was cast in her first major supporting role in Thorold Dickinson's "The Secret People" (1952), as a prodigious ballerina, performing all of her own dancing sequences. Hepburn was then offered a small role in a film being shot in both English and French, "Monte Carlo Baby" (French: "Nous Irons à Monte Carlo", 1952), which was filmed in Monte Carlo. Coincidentally, French novelist Colette was at the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo during the filming, and decided to cast Hepburn in the title role in the Broadway play "Gigi". Hepburn went into rehearsals having never spoken