Before Breakfast at Tiffany's Audrey Hepburn was still a little-known actress with few film roles to speak of; after it
- indeed because of it
- she was one of the world's most famous fashion style & screen icons. It was this film that matched her with Hubert de Givenchy's little black dress". Meanwhile Truman Capote's original novel is itself a modern classic selling huge numbers every year & its high-living author of perennial interest. 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 & 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; & 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 & amoral
- & how it made Audrey Hepburn into gamine elusive Holly Golightly in the little black dress
- & a star for the rest of her life."