Today marks what would have been Audrey Hepburn’s 86th birthday. The Belgian actress starred in 28 films over the course of her career, but none of her roles was more famous than Holly Golightly in _Breakfast at Tiffany’_s. The 1961 Truman Capote adaptation turned eating a pastry while window-shopping into a whimsical rite of passage and is forever synonymous with the generously browed actress. In honor of Hepburn’s birthday, here are ten things you probably never knew about Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
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Truman Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the role of Holly Golightly.
"She was Truman Capote's first choice,” Sam Wasson, author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ has said. “Another thing you may not know: Marilyn didn't take the part in part because Paula Strasberg, her advisor and acting coach, said she should not be playing a lady of the evening." Capote, author of the 1958 novella, was reportedly very disappointed that the studio went with Hepburn, saying, “Paramount double-crossed me in every way and cast Audrey.”