Contents

List of Cinema Stills and Photographs

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

1 Capote and the Cinema: An Overview

2 Capote in the Queer House of Fame: Stars and Celebrity Personas

3 Scriptwriter for the Stars: Capote’s Screen Adaptations of Indiscretion of an American Wife, Beat the Devil, and The Innocents

4 Holly Golightly’s Queer World: Blake Edwards’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s

5 Capote, Crime, and Capital Punishment: Richard Brooks’s In Cold Blood

6 Turning a Princess into a Star: Capote, Lee Bouvier Radziwill, and Laura

7 Capote for the Holidays: A Christmas Memory (and Trilogy), The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas

8 Capote’s Southern Childhoods: Other Voices, Other Rooms, The Grass Harp, and Children on Their Birthdays

9 Capote’s Unfinished Business: Abandoned and Unproduced Projects 200

10 Playing Capote: Tru, Capote, Infamous, and Other Parodic and Iconic Portrayals

Notes

Cinema Capoteana

Works Cited

Index