BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, 1961

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, 1961
Audrey Hepburn’s working script for the 1961 Paramount production Breakfast at Tiffany’s, dated 3 August, 1960, the script bound with two brass brads and comprising 140 pages of mimeographed typescript including deleted scenes, with 53 pages printed on yellow and 28 on blue paper representing changes to the script with varying dates through to 21 September 1960, the majority of pages with upper right corner either snipped, torn or folded down when completed, the parts for the character of Holly Golightly marked in Hepburn's signature turquoise ink, with words underlined in blue ballpoint pen and pencil for emphasis, passages or directions crossed out, and approximately 20 pages annotated in Hepburn's hand with copied out lines, minor amendments and notes including:
- p.15-16: where Holly asks Paul to help find her shoes for her visit to Sing Sing, Hepburn has amended Brown alligator [shoes] to Black, and deleted the lines And if you come across a black brassiere I can use that too… and garter-belt, garter-belt, garter-belt, garter-belt… I think maybe it’s hanging in the bathroom…would you mind…
- p.114: where the directions require Holly to rattle off sentences in Portugese, Hepburn has twice added the line Eu acho che voce esta gostando do acouqueiro
- p.119: next to …but I do love Jose Hepburn has suggested the revision I am mad about Jose
- blank end page: Hepburn has jotted a brief scene list… intro, H-P-Sing Sing, P’s apt. bathrobe, cocktail, Sing Sing, Doc., drunk, scene in room, day on the town, library, chicken saffron, pickup… and scrawled the details of a flight fl. 274 U. airl, 11.35 A.M.
11 x 8 ¾ in. (27.9 x 22.2 cm.)

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