Book description
Before Breakfast at Tiffany's Audrey Hepburn was still a
little-known actress with few film roles to speak of; after it, she
was one of the world's most famous fashion, style and screen icons. It
was this film that matched her with Hubert de Givenchy's 'little black
dress'.
Now, this little book tells the story of how it all
happened: how Audrey got the role (for which at first she wasn't
considered, and which she at first didn't want); how long it took to
get the script right; how it made Blake Edwards' name as a director
after too many trashy films had failed to; and how Henry Mancini's
soundtrack with its memorable signature tune 'Moon River' completed
the irresistible package.
This is the story of how one shy, uncertain, inexperienced young
actress was persuaded to take on a role she at first thought too
hard-edged and amoral -- and how it made Audrey Hepburn into gamine,
elusive Holly Golightly in the little black dress -- and a star for
the rest of her life.
Sam Wasson is also the author of a biography of Blake Edwards.
'Crammed with irresistible tidbits...[Wasson's] book winds up as
well-tailored as the kind of little black dress that "Breakfast at
Tiffany's" made famous.' New York Times 'There's a liveliness to
Wasson's whiz-bang account of the shooting of this famous film' Irish
Sunday Independent 20110227 '...[There is ] a tidal wave of
behind-the-scenes insights in this chatty, highly enjoyable book...'
Scottish Sunday Herald 201012 Sam Wasson studied film at Wesleyan
University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of A
Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards, Fifth Avenue, 5am:
Audrey Hepburn and Breakfast at Tiffany's and Paul on Mazursky. He lives
in Los Angeles.
