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Audrey Hepburn
By Kerry Baker
Brisbane – Australia
When Audrey Hepburn first arrived on set of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ she had misgivings as she felt she was
miscast, but of course that proved false and it became one of her most loved roles. George Peppard was a
student of method acting, a style Audrey found difficult to work with. Nonetheless, they got along
wonderfully during the shooting and remained close friends until her death.
The saga of casting for ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ could stand as a movie all on its own. The initial search for the
perfect Holly led one of the producers, Marty Jurow, past Doris Day (too virginal), Liz Taylor (too sexy),
Debbie Reynolds (too sweet), Grace Kelly (too conventional) before someone suggested Audrey Hepburn.
Perfect they thought and Jurow flew to the south of France to speak to Hepburn, whose controlling husband
Mel Ferrer was becomingly increasingly resentful of his wife’s success. He persuaded her to refuse initially
but she later relented.
However, a cauldron of egos and insecurities threatened to derail the project from the start.
The initial director and screenwriter were thrown off the movie. The second director begged the producers
to sack the leading man. The studio boss tried to axe the specially written theme song. But all these woes
paled into insignificance beside Jurow’s meeting with Truman Capote.
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