Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) photograph of a wood carving found years later in Africa which bears a striking resemblance to Holly. In addition, there are many other changes, including major omissions, to the plot and main character in the film from the novella. Capote originally envisioned Marilyn Monroe as Holly, and lobbied the studio for her, but the film was done at Paramount, and though Monroe did independent films, including for her own production company, she was still under contract with Twentieth Century Fox, and had just completed "Let's Make Love" with Yves Montand. A musical version of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (also known as
Truman Capote and a 1995 film), followed by the musical "House of Flowers" (1954), which spawned the song "A Sleepin' Bee". Capote co-wrote with John Huston the screenplay for Huston's film "Beat the Devil" (1953). Traveling through the Soviet Union with a touring production of "Porgy and Bess", he produced a series of articles for "The New Yorker" that became his first book-length work of nonfiction, "The Muses Are Heard" (1956). In this period he also wrote an autobiographical essay for Holiday Magazine—one of his personal favorites—about his life in Brooklyn Heights in the late 1950s, entitled (1959). In November, 2015, The