Sam Wasson

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. (eBook, ePUB)

Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Now in paperback in time for the 60th anniversary of the film version Breakfast at Tiffany's the New York Times bestseller and first-ever complete account of Audrey Hepburn and the making of the film that Janet Maslin called a bonbon of a book filled with delightful anecdotes

With a cast of characters that includes Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote, and Gerald Clarke, this book offers a slice of social history seen through the lens of one of America's most iconic films

The images of Breakfast at Tiffany's are branded into our collective memory: we can see Audrey Hepburn stepping out of that cab on the corner of 57th and 5th, and we can picture her again with George Peppard, huddled in an alleyway and wrapped in a kiss, as the rain pours down around them. Those moments are as familiar to us as any in whole the history of movies, but few of us know that that ending was not the film's original ending. In fact, it was only one of two endings the filmmakers shotand it almost didn't make it in.

The reasons why have to do with Tiffany's cutting-edge take on sex in the city, namely, when to show it, and how to do it, without getting caught. If Truman Capote had it his way, his beloved Marilyn Monroe would have been cast as Holly, but crafty executives knew that she'd have the censors on red alert. So they went for Audrey. But would she go for them? Frightened at the prospect of playing a part so far beyond her accepted rangenot to mention the part of call girlAudrey turned inside out worrying if she should take her agent's advice and accept the role. What would people think? America's princess playing a New York bad girl? It seemed just too far...

The First Little Black Dress is the first ever complete account of the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Drawing upon countless interviews with those involved in the film's production, from actors to producer Richard Shepherd to Gerald Clarke, Capote's biographer, Wasson brings us inside the world and indeed inside the mind of one of America's greatest cinematic icons.

Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties, before Woodstock and birth control, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the nation, changing fashion, film, and sex, for good. But that was the easy part. Getting Audrey thereand getting the right people behind herthat was the tough part.

With the heart of a novelist and the eye of a critic, Wasson delivers us from the penthouses of the Upper East Side to the pools of Beverly Hills, from script to screen and from rehearsal to Action! The First Little Black Dress presents Breakfast at Tiffany's as we have never seen it beforethrough the eyes of those who made it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063229945
• Artikelnr.: 62438445

Autorenporträt

Sam Wasson is the author of seven books on film, including the New York Times bestsellers Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern American Woman; The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood; and Fosse. With Jeanine Basinger, he is the coauthor of Hollywood: The Oral History. He lives in Los Angeles.