Paramount DVD Giveaway

This January, Paramount Pictures presented the second wave of its Centennial Collection with two Audrey Hepburn titles. And The DVD Lounge has a few copies to give away. Continue after the cut to find out what two titles are (plus another bonus) and enter to win today!

In the headline say CENTENNIAL.

In the body of the e-mail please provide the answers to the 3 questions presented plus your mailing address.

Finally, this contest ends February 6, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. Central Time and is only open to residents of the United States and Canada.

So here are the three questions and info on what you can win. Again, I have to thank the PR firms and studios that help make contests like this possible!

Question 1 – Audrey Hepburn turned down the role of what future Best Picture winner to do Funny Face instead?


Question 2 – Who wrote the novel for which Breakfast at Tiffanys is adapted from?


Question 3 – This future “A-Teamer” starred alongside Hepburn in Tiffanys

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FUNNY FACE: This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play’s original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film’s “visual consultant”), who is sent out by his female boss Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) to find a “new face”. It doesn’t take Dick long to discover Jo (Audrey Hepburn, who does her own singing), an owlish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk. Acting as Pygmalion to Jo’s Galatea, Dick whisks the wide-eyed girl off to Paris and transforms her into the fashion world’s hottest model. Along the way, he falls in love with Jo, and works overtime to wean her away from such phony-baloney intellectuals as Professor Emile Flostre (Michel Auclair). The Gershwin tunes include the title song, “S’wonderful”, “How Long Has This Been Going On” and “He Loves and She Loves”; among the newer numbers is Kay Thompson’s energetic opener “Think Pink”. For years available only in washed-out, flat prints, Funny Face was eventually restored to its full Technicolor and VistaVision glory.

GHOST TOWN: A spirited romantic comedy, Ghost Town is the story of Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), a cranky Manhattan dentist who develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. But, when a smooth-talking ghost (Greg Kinnear) traps Bertram into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen (Tea Leoni), they are entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS: Winner of two Oscars®, here’s the romantic comedy that sparkles like diamonds! From the opening strains of Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer’s haunting, Oscar®-winning song “Moon River,” you’ll once again be under the alluring spell of that madcap, carefree New York playgirl known as Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) in this 24-carat romantic comedy. The sparkling special features on this Anniversary Edition DVD only add to the luster of director Blake Edwards’ timeless film classic. Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam and Mickey Rooney co-star; Mancini won an additional Academy Award® for his enthralling musical score.
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