Holly Golightly
Adapted from Truman Capote’s 1958 novella of the same name, the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany’s is considered to be Audrey Hepburn’s most memorable and identifiable role, but if Truman Capote had gotten his way we would be remembering the 1961 classic for very different reasons. Why? Because that “Little Black Dress” by Givenchy would have been filled out by another Hollywood icon.
That icon was Marilyn Monroe, and Truman himself once stated “Marilyn was always my first choice to play the girl, Holly Golightly.” and screenwriter George Axelrod was hired to “tailor the screenplay for Monroe.” However, when the “father of method acting in America” Lee Strasberg advised Monroe that playing a “lady of the evening” would be bad for her image, she turned it down. After the casting of Hepburn, Capote angrily remarked that “Paramount double-crossed me in every way and cast Audrey”.
