Breakfast at Tiffany's (film) loosely based on the novella by Truman Capote. Changes were made to fit the medium of cinema and to correspond to the filmmakers' vision. Capote, who sold the film rights of his novella to Paramount Studios, wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly Golightly, whom he had described perfectly in the book. Barry Paris cites Capote's own comments on the choice of actress: "Marilyn was always my first choice to play the girl, Holly Golightly." Screenwriter Axelrod was hired to "tailor the screenplay for Monroe". When Lee Strasberg advised Monroe that playing a "lady of the evening" would be bad for
The Novella The Novella The Novella is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Richard Brome. It was first published in the 1653 Brome collection "Five New Plays", issued by the booksellers Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring. In the 1653 "Five New Plays" (not to be confused with the 1659 Brome collection of the same name), each of the plays has its own title page. The title page of "The Novella" specifies that the drama was performed by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre in the year 1632. One detail in the play-offers insight into the functioning