Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's - Brossura

Wasson, Sam

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ISBN 10: 1781310807 ISBN 13: 9781781310809

Casa editrice: Aurum, 2013

Riassunto

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 and 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, and 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, 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.

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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 )

...[There is ] a tidal wave of behind-the-scenes insights in this chatty, highly enjoyable book...

--(Scottish Sunday Herald )

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 is ] a tidal wave of behind-the-scenes insights in this chatty, highly enjoyable book...

--Scottish Sunday Herald

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Aurum
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1781310807
• ISBN 13: 9781781310809
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256