Book: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Age-range: 16 and up
What a lot of people don't know is Truman Capote didn't want Audrey Hepburn to play Holly Golightly; he wanted Marilyn Monroe. This intrigued me enough to read his barely-over-100-pages novella a few years ago. Every once in a while I read it again.
If you've seen the movie you're familiar with the story. And if you haven't seen the movie then something is wrong with you and I don't want you reading my blog.
The Holly Golightly of the novella is a lot more Marilyn than Audrey, although a lot of Holly's lines in the movie are pulled directly from the novella. And I mean word for word! There isn't a large amount of expansion on any of the themes in the movie, but it is interesting to see Capote's vision of Holly compared to the Hollywood version.
Happy reading!
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It is interesting once you have read the book, because you see Marilyn in the book but Audrey is so Holly in the movie. The reason that Marilyn didn't get the part was because she was becoming hard to work with. Her depression was out of control and no one knew how to deal with it then. They basically kept telling her to suck it up and get over it. To think what an anti-depressant would have done for her. However, then we wouldn't have Audrey in the part and that would be sad
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