The Capote Tapes
2021Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton invigorate this fascinating documentary on the author (and socialite) behind Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, while situating Capote in the 20th-century American literary canon.
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Truman Capote
as Self (archive footage)
George Plimpton
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Kate Harrington
as Self
Dotson Rader
as Self
Lauren Bacall
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Sally Quinn
as Self
John Richardson
as Self, art historian
Jay McInerney
as Self
Phoebe Pierce
as Self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage)
Barbara Lawrence
as Self, journalist, The New Yorker (voice) (archive footage)
Babs Simpson
as Self, fashion writer, Vogue (voice) (archive footage)
Norman Mailer
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Colm Tóibín
as Self
Marella Angelli
as Self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage)
Jack Dunphy
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Sadie Stein
as Self
George Axelrod
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Louise Melhado Grunwald
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Gavin Lambert
as self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage)
Slim Keith
as self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage)
C.Z. Guest
as self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage)
Lee Radziwill
as self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage)
Babe Paley
as self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage)
André Leon Talley
as Self
Loel Guinness
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Lewis Lapham
as Self
William F. Buckley Jr.
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Donald Brooks
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Leonora Hornblow
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Candice Bergen
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Dick Cavett
as Self
Mick Jagger
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Colacello
as Self (archive footage)
Piedy Lumet
as self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage)
Kate Paley
as Self, Babe Paley's daughter (voice) (archive footage)
Judy Green
as self, Truman Capote's friend (voice) (archive footage)