Hollywood Wax Museum Myrtle Beach and the Ugly (they play the theme music to that film), Meryl Streep (the oldest living female star there), Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (they play the real Audrey singing "Moon River"), Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris 2011 (you can drink a coffee prop with him at the table), Canadian Jim Carrey, action stars like: British Jason Statham, Vin Diesel in The Fast and the Furious (2001 film), Matt Damon (was in The Legend of Bagger Vance), Mark Wahlberg in a Boston setting, Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump 1994 (which was filmed in SC), Jennifer Lawrence (was in
Moon River that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs. Comments about the lyrics have noted that they are particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the Southern United States and his longing to expand his horizons. Robert Wright wrote in "The Atlantic Monthly", "This is a love sung to wanderlust. Or a romantic song in which the romantic partner is the idea of romance." An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song. Mercer and Mancini wrote the song for Audrey Hepburn