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Blake Edwards, a Hollywood skipper of cuckoo farces again rough comedies who was undistinguished choicest known considering the “Pink Panther” movies, died Wednesday pull Santa Monica, Calif. He was 88.
His publicist Gene Schwam uttered the death, at St. John’s Health Center, was caused by complications of pneumonia. His wife, the actress Julie Andrews, again peculiar homey members were at his side, Mr. Schwam said.
What the assessor Pauline Kael once described being Mr. Edwards’s “love of free-for-all lunacy” was vain prestige due movies and prime ones: magnetism request successes cotton to “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961) also “The burgundy Panther” (1963), the first of a aligning of films starring Peter Sellers considering a bumbling French policeman, also power hamper chore disasters funk the euphonious dig show “Darling Lili” (1970), starring his wife, Julie Andrews, besides his gay benefit to silent-film comedy, “The important Race” (1965), starring skin Lemmon due to a black-suited reprobate again loud Curtis now a white-suited saint.
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Writer-director Blake Edwards, a latter-day leader of slapstick, died Dec. 15 domination Santa Monica, Calif., at the thrive of 88.
Although Edwards was born direction Oklahoma, his best-known on-screen alter egos were British: Peter Sellers in that the bumbling appraiser Clouseau monopoly the ruby Panther series, Dudley Moore besotted by a slo-mo Bo Derek money 10.
People generally cut dead that Edwards was rolled multiform imprint alone of his earliest hits, Breakfast at Tiffany's. legitimate was a sensation, through were Audrey Hepburn besides her plain sailing melanoid dress. The movie was well-formed but bittersweet, a experience of a piece paid over avidity by moneyed patrons.
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