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CLOSEUP: Paul Varjak’s typewriter. From George Axelrod’s screenplay for BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S

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From George Axelrod’s screenplay for BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, adapted from a story by Truman Capote.

 Closeup of Paul Varjak’s typewriter. Frame from the film, photographed by Franz Planer for Blake Edward’s 1961 feature.

 Watch the scene, in which Paul Varjak’s (George Peppard) writing is interrupted by the singing of his neighbor, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn).

 Read all about the making of the film in Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Aud­rey Hep­burn, Break­fast at Tif­fany’s, and The Dawn of the Mod­ern Wo­man, by Sam Was­son. It is the first-ever, com­plete ac­count of the mak­ing of the film. With a cast of char­ac­ters including Tru­man Ca­pote, Edith Head, di­rec­tor Blake Ed­wards, and, of course, Hep­burn her­self, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. 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. With de­licious prose and con­sider­able wit, Wasson de­livers us from the pent­houses of the Up­per East Side to the pools of Bever­ly Hills, pre­sent­ing BREAK­FAST AT TIF­FANY’S as we have never seen it before — through the eyes of those who creat­ed it.
Recommended: The author’s for­mid­able know­ledge of the film­makers, and thor­ough re­search give the read­er the con­text to ap­preci­ate the de­tails of the writ­ing and pro­duc­tion of this re­mark­ably in­flu­ential fea­ture film. Sam Wasson’s pre­vious book was A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards.

 Also: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion, by Sarah Gristwood, foreword by Hubert de Givenchy.


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