Holly Golightly, a quirky New York call girl in Breakfast at Tiffany's, a role the writer Truman Capote had envisioned for Marilyn Monroe. Audrey Hepburn's portrayal of Golightly was adapted from the original: "I can't play a hooker," she admitted to Marty Jurow, co-producer of the film. Despite the lack of sexual innuendo in her character, her portrayal was nominated for the 1962 Academy Award for Best Actress and became an iconic character in American cinema.
The character Holly Golightly
Holly Golightly is a country girl turned New York café society girl. As such, she carouses and entertains all the rich men she can find, hoping to snag one as a marriage partner. Despite popular misconception, Holly is not a prostitute or call girl. Capote explicitly denies this. Holly, who likes to stun people with carefully selected tidbits from her personal life or her outspoken viewpoints on various topics, slowly reveals herself to the narrator who finds himself fascinated by her curious lifestyle. In the end Holly fears that she will never know what is really hers until after she has thrown it away.
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