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
Love in the Afternoon (1957 film) the gamine Hepburn ... With little competition from the wooden Cooper, the picture is stolen by Chevalier's bravura turn." Channel 4 stated that "the film as a whole is rather let down by the implausible chemistry that is meant to develop between Cooper and Hepburn." Notes Bibliography Love in the Afternoon (1957 film) Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder which stars Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the Claude Anet novel "Ariane, jeune fille russe" (trans., "Ariane, Young Russian Girl"),