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“Time: 28 April 1955.
Ficción y Realidad en la obra de Truman Cayote
Scene: Tite chapel of the Universal Funeral Home at
Lexington Avenue and Fifty-second Street, New York
City.” (Capote 1980:224)
La razón para esta localización en particular es sencilla: Capote,
Marilyn y otras celebridades acuden masivamente al funeral de una famosa
actriz, Constance Collier. Así presenta la situación para, posteriormente,
introducir a esta actriz
“An interesting galaxy packs tite pews: celebrities,
from the most part, from an international arena of titeatre,
films, literature, alí present in tribute to Constance Collier,
tite English- born actress wito had died the previous da>’ at
tite age of seventy- five.
Dom iii 1880, Miss Coflier liad began her carrier as a
music-hall Gaiety Girl, graduated from that to become one
of England’s principal Shakespearean actresses (and tite
long-time fiancée of Sir Max Beerbohn, witom site never
married, and perhaps for that reason was tite inspiration for
tite mischievously unobtainable heroine in Sir Max’s novel
Zuleika J)obson). Eventually site emigrated to tite United
States, where established herself as a considerable figure on
tite New York stage as well as in Hoflywood films. During
the last decades of iter life site lived in New York, where
site practised as a drama coach of unique caliber; site
accepted oní>’ professionals as students, and usually only
professionals wito were aIread>’ “stars”- Katiterine Hepburn
was a permanent pupil; another Hepburn, Áudrey, was also
a Collier protegée, as were Vivian Leigh and, for a few
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